Answer: Why are commands and events separately represented?

answer re: Why are commands and events separately represented?

Mar 24 '19

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The event is a fact from the past.

The command is only a request, and thus may be refused.

Commands	Events
Purpose	Invoke Behavior	Something Happened
Ownership	Command Owned by Consumer	Event Owned by Publisher
Consumers	One Consumer	Zero or Many Consumers
Senders	Many Senders	Single Publisher
Naming	Verb	Past

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