Hey!

I'm Patric, and I just hit a major milestone - Genesis DB 1.0.(1) is officially production-ready.

Why I built this: Existing event sourcing tools felt too heavy, opinionated, or expensive. I wanted something that matches how developers actually think about events - simple, transparent, and powerful.

What Genesis DB is:

- Event sourcing database engine written in Go

- HTTP + JSON interface (no proprietary protocols)

- CloudEvents native with zero vendor lock-in

- One-command backups/restores

- Built-in Prometheus metrics & structured logging

Major features that made it to 1.0:

- Smart validation - Preconditions act as gatekeepers, enforcing business logic before writes hit the database

- Schema registration - Automatic event validation for type safety and data consistency

- Native GDPR compliance - One-command user data deletion, full data portability, built-in audit trails

- Battle-tested performance - Thousands of events/second, zero data loss, stable under load

- ...

The journey:

- Started because I love event-driven architectures but hated the tooling complexity

- A few versions, each adding features

- Now processing real production workloads across multiple industries

Want to try it? - Free tier: 10,000 events for testing/small projects (I’m not here to be the biggest cost factor in any business. If you’ve got special requirements, let’s talk.)

- Self-host or use the managed platform (coming soon)

Full docs at https://docs.genesisdb.io

Thanks for reading!

Amazing, well done. Having used Go for something similar can understand why you chose that for this venture. Wondering if there was anything in particular worked out for you with that decision?

Congrats on hitting 1.0. love the focus on simplicity and real world dev workflows