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The Event Sourcing 2025 Whitepaper

By Bruce Hopkins

June 20, 2025

15 min

Modern systems require more than just traditional databases or message queues. This free whitepaper reveals how event sourcing can make your applications more transparent, scalable, and future-ready...

Digital Architecture 2.0 with the Axon Platform

By Allard Buijze

January 11, 2023

5 min

This whitepaper provides insight into the most common question that comes up during our conversations with customers: How does the Axon Platform fit into their digitization strategy? Digitization is...

Concurrency Control in Event-Driven Architectures

By Gerard Klijs

September 29, 2022

10 min

Scalability and high availability Event-driven architectures are architectures where events play a central role. These types of architectures have certain advantages, such as being able to scale...

Cornerstones of a successful and sustainable CQRS/ES implementation

By Vijay Nair

April 15, 2022

10 min

Design, Build and Run As an organization, you decided that your next project will adopt Command Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing (ES). The kickoff party is complete, people...

GraphQL and Axon, a powerful combination

By Gerard Klijs

April 15, 2022

10 min

GraphQL it’s a good match! You probably want to connect a frontend application to your backend at some point. While this can be considered just an implementation detail from the backend point of...

Why Event Sourcing Means Big Gains for Financial Services

By Allard Buijze

November 8, 2021

15 min

AxonIQ offers the world’s only purpose-built event-thinking platform. Underpinned by Axon Server, a distributed event-sourced database and message routing solution, and Axon Framework, a developer...

The CQRS/ES Playbook

By Allard Buijze

November 8, 2021

5 min

This playbook presents the proper foundational decisions that need to be taken across all levels of the organization to help successfully implement CQRS and Event Sourcing. Beginning with a holistic...

DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing Explained

By Allard Buijze

November 4, 2021

5 min

This whitepaper explains the basic concepts of DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing. It explores common misunderstandings and how the Axon platform helps by providing the foundation for building asynchronous...