The following concepts are important for working with event sourcing with CQRS:

Aggregates

An aggregate is an entity or a group of entities in the domain that are treated as a single unit.

Events

Events are things that happen in the domain. They are immutable facts that record how the domain changes over time.

Commands

A command is a request to change the system. When a command is executed, it is validated, and if accepted, one or more events are created.

Projections

A projection is a view of the current state of an aggregate or a sub-domain.

Projections are realized by applying the events from the beginning of time to get to the current state.

The aggregate state is itself a projection - this is generated and maintained by Simple Sourcing. For generating all other projections and aggregations, we recommend using Kafka Streams or KSQL.

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