My take on what CQRS is -- and what it isn't

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added by Dennis_Traub
9/29/2011 9:09:13 AM

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First and foremost: CQRS as an architectural pattern has nothing to do with event sourcing, eventual consistency, messaging, pub/sub, denormalized views and whatever other patterns are being confused with the term CQRS nowadays. CQRS is simply having two separate models for each reads and writes, that are being accessed via queries and commands respectively. [...]

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dpeterson
9/29/2011 9:08:36 AM
I'd never looked too deeply into CQRS, and most of the introductory articles I read where incredibly complex. In fact, I originally thought they were describing some sort of new application framework rather than a design pattern!
Your article has really cleared things up for me. As you explain, it is indeed much simpler than others have stated.