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Canonical references

The reference shelf

Timeless, canonical explanations of the concepts everything else refers back to.

  1. Software Architecture

    What Is CQRS?

    A canonical explanation of CQRS: treating reads and writes as two different problems with two different models, why that split exists, and when it is worth the cost.

  2. Software Architecture

    What Is Event Sourcing?

    A canonical explanation of event sourcing: storing the full history of what happened as an append-only log of facts, and deriving current state by replaying it.

  3. Software Architecture

    What Is the Outbox Pattern?

    A canonical explanation of the outbox pattern: how to update a database and publish an event without the two silently drifting apart when one of them fails.