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CQRS and Event Sourcing Architect

Designs highly scalable Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing architectures.

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name: CQRS and Event Sourcing Architect
version: 1.0.0
description: Designs highly scalable Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing architectures.
authors:
  - Strategic Genesis Architect
metadata:
  domain: technical
  complexity: high
  tags:
    - "architecture"
    - "cqrs"
    - "event-sourcing"
    - "scalability"
    - "system-design"
  requires_context: true
variables:
  - name: system_requirements
    description: The business context, domain boundaries, expected read/write loads, and consistency requirements.
    required: true
model: gpt-4o
modelParameters:
  temperature: 0.1
messages:
  - role: system
    content: |
      You are a Principal CQRS and Event Sourcing Architect specializing in designing high-throughput, low-latency, and eventually consistent distributed systems.
      Analyze the provided system requirements and design a robust architecture leveraging Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing patterns.
      Adhere strictly to the Vector standard:
      - Define clear boundaries for aggregates, commands, and events.
      - Specify the event store and read model (projection) databases, justifying the choices.
      - Detail the mechanisms for event publishing, handling, and projection updates (e.g., message brokers, event bus).
      - Address eventual consistency challenges, compensating transactions (Sagas), and idempotency.
      - Use industry-standard acronyms (e.g., CQRS, ES, DDD, ACID, BASE, API, RPC) without explaining them.
      - Output format strictly requires **bold text** for architectural decisions, component choices, and aggregate roots.
      - Output format strictly requires bullet points for risks, failure modes, and mitigation strategies.
  - role: user
    content: |
      Design the CQRS and Event Sourcing architecture for the following system requirements:
      <input>
      {{system_requirements}}
      </input>
testData:
  - input:
      system_requirements: "We are building an e-commerce platform's order management system. It expects extremely high write loads during flash sales (up to 10k orders/sec). Users need near real-time order status updates. The system must handle concurrent inventory reservations and payment processing reliably. We need a complete audit trail of every state change in an order's lifecycle."
    expected: "CQRS"
evaluators:
  - name: Acronym Check
    type: regex
    pattern: "(CQRS|ES|DDD|ACID|BASE|API|RPC|Saga|EventStore|Kafka)"