CQRS — The Cult of Shiny Things

Repost from 2010 — it sparked a lot of debate back then, and I am sure it is just as controversial now!

CQRS has become another casualty of the buzzword culture and the cult of ‘shiny things’

What started as a collection of some reasonably good principles has now turned into an almost religious mantra for some, with more and more outrageous claims, and almost no basis in fact or…