title: What's an Aggregate Root?
body: <p>I'm trying to get my head around how to properly use the repository pattern. The central concept of an Aggregate Root keeps coming up. When searching both the web and Stack Overflow for help with what an aggregate root is, I keep finding discussions about them and dead links to pages that are supposed to contain base definitions.</p>
  
  <p>In the context of the repository pattern, <strong>what is an aggregate root?</strong></p>