This document discusses CQRS and event sourcing patterns for Java developers. It begins with an overview of classical monolithic architectures versus modern microservice architectures. It then contrasts CRUD with CQRS, explaining that CQRS separates reads from writes by using commands for writes and queries for reads. Events evolve from commands and represent things that occurred in the past. The document provides an example implementation using the Lagom framework that demonstrates separating the write side from the read side and persisting events. It emphasizes that with this approach, all state changes are stored as events and the current state can be recreated by replaying events. The document encourages the use of Lagom due to benefits like asynchronous programming, developer productivity, and production readiness.