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Ideas for improvements and new features in EventStoreDB, client libraries, and database extensions.

Workspace EventStoreDB
Categories Dev experience
Created by Alexey Zimarev
Created on Jan 4, 2024

Event metadata format

Leverage map style metadata, used in cloud events that propagate as HTTP/message headers.

Having event metadata as JSON sounded like a good idea at a time, but it creates a lot of friction when things need to be retrieved or added, like tracing headers and other things. Header-style metadata is a well-known mechanism to avoid all the serialisation burden, and ESDB would benefit from adopting the same way to store and pass over metadata.

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