Queries

Once events are published they can be consumed by our queries (a.k.a., views). As queries consume events they modify their own state and produce something similar to the views that we have in standard applications. Their real flexibility is derived from the fact that these queries are not tied in any way to our write model.

In the previous example we produced events that we could imagine to be of interest to several queries. Certainly, we would have a customer-information query that would need to be updated, but then we might have additional queries such as an all-customer-contacts query that would also respond to the same event.

Additionally, other downstream services may respond to these events similarly to how they would in any other messaging-based application. Using the same example we might have a service that sends a verification email to the new address after an email-updated event is fired.

An example of how a single command might move through a CQRS system.