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 Grafana uses a _bus_ to pass messages between different parts of the application. All communication over the bus happens synchronously.
 
+> **Deprecated:** The bus has officially been deprecated, however, we're still using the command/query objects paradigms.
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 There are three types of messages: _events_, _commands_, and _queries_.
 
 ## Events