Dustin Wheeler on Database Stream of Events

In this not-quite-Jason-Young length post, Dustin Wheeler has some sage advice on dealing with legacy systems and upstream systems of record.  He really captured my mood when he said:

You’re happy! You have all the data you need to build “Next Big Thing”; 

Darned skippy I am.  Mass quantities of data satisfy like no other thing on the planet.

Representing Changes in a Database as a Stream of Events