TL;DR RES is a strategic OSS product at arkency and I'm no longer with them.
RailsEventStore started around 2014 as an in-house event store developed to solve particular problems at one of the arkency clients. What initially only helped reliably synchronizing financial data with Salesforce, later became a central backbone for integrating company departments, powered cross-cutting workflows and radically simplified operations of the customer support. And we felt it was so good, it would have been a shame not to share it with the world. So, with the client's permission, it was extracted. Just like Rails once was.
RES was designed to work with legacy applications first in mind. Not the idealistic greenfield or hobby projects. It was meant to be introduced to mature projects with minimal changes. To start small, in the middle. On existing infrastructure. At the same time it was a useful educational tool when exposi