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CQRS: Command/Query Responsibility Segregation
This document discusses Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), a pattern for building scalable, multi-user systems. CQRS separates commands and queries by using different models for updates and reads. This allows optimization of read and write operations independently to improve scalability. The document outlines common CQRS components like commands, events, and persistent view models, and provides guidelines for when to use CQRS, such as for large, distributed systems with complex business logic.
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- 1. A scalable patternfor building large multi-user system Brian Ritchie Twitter: @brian_ritchie Chief Architect Email: brian.ritchie@gmail.com PaySpan, Inc. Blog: http://weblog.asp.net/britchie Web: http://www.dotnetpowered.com
- 2. Brian Ritchie » ChiefArchitect at PaySpan, Inc. » Nearly 20 years of development experience » Developing on .NET since 1.0 Beta 1 » Contributed to Mono and other open source projects
- 3. Agenda » What isCQRS anyway? » Why is it needed? » How does CQRS work? » When should I use CQRS? » Review example implementation
- 4. » According toWikipedia: "CQRS is simply the creation of two objects where there was previously only one. The separation occurs based upon whether the methods are a command or a query (the same definition that is used by Meyer in Command and Query Separation, a command is any method that mutates state and a query is any method that returns a value)."
- 6. Put another way… Command/Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is the idea that you can use a different model to update information than the model you use to read information. In this context, » Commands = Writes » Queries = Reads Pioneered by Greg Young & Udi Dahan
- 8. Let’s take astep back. Why do we build applications like we do today? It started with a stack of paper… …that needed to be keyed …and along came into the machine the CRUD app!
- 9. Being good developers,we didn’t stop there. We built various models to protect us from change at different layers of the application. Diagram © Martin Fowler
- 10. But this wasn’tscalable…so we add more layers. Not only did we add layers, but also complexity.
- 11. » All ofthis to provide scalability & a consistent view of the data. But did we succeed?
- 12. Back to ourCRUD app… ? ? ? ? ? ? Where is the consistency? We have stale data all over the place!
- 13. To understand thisbetter, let’s look at a basic multi-user system. Retrieve data Retrieve data User is looking at stale data Modify data Stale data is inherent in a multi-user system. The machine is now the source of truth…not a piece of paper.
- 14. Which begs thequestion… » Is the data the user is looking at right now stale?
- 15. » Since staledata always exists, No, we need a different is all of this complexity really approach. needed to scale? One that… » Offers extreme scalability » Inherently handle multiple users » Can grow to handle complex problems without growing development costs
- 16. Which brings us backto CQRS… Command captures the intent of the user Scale out as many copies as needed Persistent View Model schema After database is matches UI view model updated, publish result to view model Diagram from Rinat Abdullin http://abdullin.com/cqrs A queue can be utilized to optimize write performance
- 17. Let’s break itdown… Common components of the CQRS pattern: » Task-based UI » Commands » Domain Objects » Events » Persistent View Model Note: these are common components…not required components
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- 19. Task-based UI Why rethinkthe User Interface? » Grids don’t capture the user’s intent
- 20. Task-based UI Rethinking theUser Interface » Adjust UI design to capture intent ˃ what did the user really mean? ˃ intent becomes a command » Why is intent important? ˃ Last name changed because of misspelling ˃ Last name changed because of marriage ˃ Last name changed because of divorce » User interface can affect your architecture
- 21. Task-based UI » Validation ˃ increase likelihood of command succeeding ˃ validate client-side ˃ optimize validation using persistent view model » What about user feedback? ˃ Polling: wait until read model is updated ˃ Use asynchronous messaging such as email “Your request is being processed. You will receive an email when it is completed” ˃ Just fake it! Scope the change to the current user. Update a local in- memory model
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- 23. Commands » Commands encapsulatethe user’s intent but do not contain business logic, only enough data for the command » What makes a good command? ˃A command is an action – starts with a verb ˃The kind you can reply with: “Thank you. Your confirmation email will arrive shortly”. Inherently asynchronous. » Commands can be considered messages ˃Messaging provides an asynchronous delivery mechanism for the commands. As a message, it can be routed, queued, and transformed all independent of the sender & receiver
- 24. Commands & DomainObjects » The domain model is utilized for processing commands; it is unnecessary for queries. » Unlike entity objects you may be used to, aggregate roots in CQRS only have methods (no getters/setters) Aggregate Roots Some things belong together, like Apple Pie and Ice Cream, or Sonny and Cher. And so it is with Entities and Value Objects (VOs) – some of them belong together. Aggregates are groups of things that belong together. An Aggregate Root is the thing that holds them all together. Example: OrderLines have no reason to exist without their parent Order, nor can they belong to any other Order. In this case, Order and OrderLines would be an Aggregate, and the Order would be the Aggregate Root
- 25. Commands & DomainObjects » Setters are an anti pattern in your domain. DDD is not about modeling data, or nouns. It is about modeling behaviors that are solving the domain problem, or verbs. » The public interface of your domain should solely consist in public methods on your aggregate roots. The idea is that each method represents a use case. » From a design perspective, it is also the only way to ensure your objects invariants. That way, your aggregates are always fully consistent – they valid state at all times. » If DDD is about behavior, then getters also should be an anti pattern. And they are. Julienn Letrouit http://julienletrouit.com/?p=22
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- 27. Events » Events describechanges in the system state » An Event Bus can be utilized to dispatch events to subscribers » Events primary purpose update the read model » Events can also provider integration with external systems » CQRS can also be used in conjunction with Event Sourcing. Event Sourcing Captures all changes to an application state as a sequence of events. The current state is constructed by applying the events in the order they were recorded. Not only does it give us the current state, but we can also use the event log to reconstruct past states, and as a foundation to automatically adjust the state to cope with retroactive changes. Summarized from Martin Fowler – http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
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- 29. Persistent View Model »Reads are usually the most common activity – many times 80-90%. Why not optimize them? » Read model is based on how the user wants to see the data. » Read model can be denormalized RDBMS, document store, etc. » Reads from the view model don’t need to be loaded into the domain model, they can be bond directly to the UI.
- 30. Persistent View Model UI Query only…keep it simple Persistent View Model For each view in the UI, have a view/table in the database SELECT * FROM ViewModelTable (WHERE ID = @ID)
- 31. Persistent View Model Data Duplicated, No Relationships, Data Pre-Calculated Customer Service Rep view Supervisor view List of customers List of customers ID Name Phone ID Name Phone Lifetime value Rep_Customers_Table Supervisor_Customers_Table ID Name Phone ID Name Phone Lifetime Value
- 32. First off, whenshould I avoid it? » CQRS can be overkill for simple applications. » Don’t use it in a non-collaborative domain or where you can horizontally add more database servers to support more users/requests/data at the same time you’re adding web servers – there is no real scalability problem – Udi Dahan
- 33. CQRS is apattern that is usually leveraged for a portion of a system. » This builds on a concept from Domain Driven Design (DDD) known as a Bounded Context. Bounded Context A Bounded Context is an area of your application which has explicitly defined borders, has it’s own model, has it’s own Model, and maintains it’s own code. - Jak Charlton A Bounded Context can be considered as a miniature application, containing it’s own domain, code and persistence mechanisms. Within a Bounded Context, there should be logical consistency, each Bounded Context should be independent of any other Bounded Context. - ThinkDDD.org » A typical application there are multiple bounded contexts, any of which can be implemented the way it makes sense.
- 34. Guidelines for usingCQRS: » Large, multi-user systems CQRS is designed to address concurrency issues. » Scalability matters With CQRS you can achieve great read and write performance. The system intrinsically supports scaling out. By separating read & write operations, each can be optimized. » Difficult business logic CQRS forces you to not mix domain logic and infrastructural operations. » Large or Distributed teams you can split development tasks between different teams with defined interfaces.
- 36. Commands are simpleobject that contain all the data to perform the underlying action. They also express intent by there name.
- 37. An Command Executorsaccepts commands of a certain type and performs a corresponding action. The action should not contain business logic and should directly use the domain.
- 38. All events thathave occurred end up in the event store. It contains all the event that represents the state changes in the system. These can be used to build up the current state by replaying them all. This store can also be used to fill up new or repair existing read model. For the event store, NCQRS supports MSSQL, MongoDB, RavenDB, SqlLite, and more…
- 39. NCQRS provides abase class for denormalizers that allows them to be subscribed to the event bus.
- 40. Command / QueryResponsibility Segregation A scalable pattern for building large multi-user system Brian Ritchie Twitter : @brian_ritchie Chief Architect Email: brian.ritchie@gmail.com PaySpan, Inc. Blog: http://weblog.asp.net/britchie Web: http://www.dotnetpowered.com
- 41. Command / QueryResponsibility Segregation A scalable pattern for building large multi-user system Brian Ritchie Twitter : @brian_ritchie Chief Architect Email: brian.ritchie@gmail.com PaySpan, Inc. Blog: http://weblog.asp.net/britchie Web: http://www.dotnetpowered.com