The cover image is copyright Fabian Oefner from the Disintegrating II series. This is one of my favorite cars, the Ford GT40. In earlier days of CQRS, a web search for "cqrs" would auto-correct to "cars". The old CQRS blog humorously bears the subtitle: Did you mean cars?

Established in the 70's by the "Gang of Four", Design Patterns are generic reusable abstract solutions to solve often recurring problems in software design.

CQRS has some reputation issues. Mainly, people will feel that it's too complicated to apply in their current projects. It will often be considered over-engineering. I think CQRS is simply misunderstood, which is the reason many people will not choose it as a design technique.