# Martin Dilger | Event Modeling For The Win

By: Justin Abrams
Published: 2026-11-13

Most teams still treat event sourcing as too complicated to try. Martin Dilger's default is the opposite. He needs a really good reason not to use it.

In this episode of CTO Confidential, Mike Rispoli sits down with Martin Dilger, founder and CEO of Nebulit GmbH and the author of Understanding Eventsourcing. He has spent 25 years in software and practiced Event Modeling since reading Adam Dymitruk's article in 2021.

We get into:

* Why there is no going back once you start practicing event sourcing
* Talking with a client about the system, with no databases or architecture jargon
* Using AI to build an event model from a legacy code base and keep it in sync
* Design for deletability, the one line Martin puts in every prompt
* Why the event store explosion is an urban legend, and why a replay takes a second or two
* How teams handle GDPR when events cannot just be changed
* A prototype that updated the event model from client feedback, with no workshop
* Why coding is no longer the skill, and why decomposing a system is
* The book he tells engineers to read: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Connect with Martin:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martindilger
Nebulit: https://nebulit.de
Understanding Eventsourcing: https://www.eventsourcingbook.com

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