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Message- and Event-Driven Systems with CQRS and Event Sourcing: Web and Cloud Architecture
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Message- and Event-Driven Systems with CQRS and Event Sourcing: Web and Cloud Architecture

by Alex Lawrence
August 2026
308 pages
12h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 8. Evolution of Messages and Message Streams

The different categories of messages in a message-driven system enable various communication modes and processing functionalities. Commands, queries, and responses facilitate one-to-one communication, while events are used to inform about past occurrences. On top of that, selected event categories can serve as facts in persistent streams, such as when applying Event Sourcing. Independent of a category, every message adheres to an agreed-upon type-specific structure. The description of this structure may be expressed as an externalized schema and as specialized types in the source code. While messages, their structures, and streams are often treated as static aspects, they must change over time ...

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