This document discusses Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and event sourcing patterns. It explains that with event sourcing, all state changes are stored as a sequence of events. This allows reconstructing past application states and handling errors. CQRS separates read and write operations so that read models optimized for queries can be updated from the event stream to improve read performance. Projections are used to update separate read models from the event stream to support multiple query views of the data.