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+# Guereza 🐒
+
+Guereza is a small example of distributed application design. It uses the following patterns:
+- DDD
+- AOP
+- EventBus
+- Event Sourcing
+- CQRS
+
+Moreover, the project implements the following features:
+- Netty Server and Client
+- Custom Injection Framework
+- Custom Event Sourcing Framework
+
+## Build
+
+Building and running is easy with `gradle`:
+
+```
+$ gradle wrapper
+$ ./gradlew build
+$ java -jar build/libs/guereza-1.0-SNAPSHOT-all.jar
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+There is 4 available modules:
+- server: aggregate and dispatch all events
+- store: store events and let reducers act on them
+- crawler and indexer: request URLs and index the content
+
+You need to start **one** `server` and `store`. Then, you can start as many other modules as you want.