aggregatebased
aggregatebased is a term used to describe approaches that organize systems around aggregates, cohesive groupings of entities, data points, or materials treated as a unit for processing, measurement, or integrity. In software engineering, aggregate-based design follows ideas from domain-driven design, where an aggregate is a cluster of related domain objects bound by a root and governed by invariants. Operations are performed at the aggregate boundary and transactions are scoped to that boundary to maintain consistency while enabling modular, scalable components. This supports event-driven and CQRS architectures, where changes are emitted as events at the aggregate level and propagated to other parts of the system.
In data analytics and information systems, aggregate-based processing describes pipelines that compute summaries by grouping data
In materials science and engineering, aggregate-based composites use aggregates or filler particles embedded in a matrix
Common challenges include balancing granularity with performance, ensuring invariants across boundaries, and selecting appropriate aggregation strategies