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Why do event-sourced systems eventually need snapshots?
Replaying tens of thousands of accumulated events to reconstruct one long-lived entity's current state on every single read becomes a real performance problem as history grows — a periodic snapshot lets a later read replay only events AFTER that snapshot instead of from the very beginning.
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