“CQRS saved us. Then it killed us. We put all the writes in perfect Aggregates. But the reads? We just projected raw SQL onto JSON. For six months, it worked. Then the product owner asked: ‘Why does the dashboard say 12 orders but the export says 14?’ The read model had drifted so far from the domain model that they were two different companies sharing a database.”
Alex’s hands were shaking now. He reached for his coffee. It was cold. Like his soul.
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