Lagom — CQRS/Event Sourcing for the masses?

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retrospective:

1970: Event logs are extensively studied as they are extremely useful for the exploding business of rdbms.

2000: Event logs are also found very useful for scalability and integration in general purpose application and architecture design (re-branded Event Sourcing).

2015: Some people notice that the previous point was completely ignored by most big javaEE companies, so they took the business opportunity to sell the idea with a nice corporate-friendly packaging:

2016: Lagom — https://www.lightbend.com/lagom

202?: similar concepts are introduced in JavaEE