The document discusses how to develop event-driven microservices using event sourcing and Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS). It describes event sourcing, where events are stored instead of the current application state. Services update their own state by subscribing to events. CQRS is used to separate read models from write models so that queries can be optimized with materialized views of aggregated data. Implementing queries in an event-sourced application involves using separate query-side microservices to update and retrieve materialized views based on domain events from the event store.