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Relational Core, Event-Driven Soul: Evolving Zitadel for Scale

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Why Zitadel is Moving Beyond Pure Event Sourcing. To solve the "Performance Wall" and operational complexity, Zitadel is refactoring its storage layer using the Repository Pattern and PostgreSQL. Learn how writing to relational tables first enables fast indexed queries and atomic API responses without losing time-travel forensics.

  • Florian Forster

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