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Domain-Driven Design Distilled, 1/e

by Vaughn Vernon

May 2016

Intermediate to advanced

176 pages

3h 36m

English

Addison-Wesley Professional

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Who Is This Book For?What This Book CoversConventions
Will DDD Hurt?Good, Bad, and Effective DesignStrategic DesignTactical DesignThe Learning Process and Refining KnowledgeLet’s Get Started!
Domain Experts and Business DriversCase StudyFundamental Strategic Design NeededChallenge and UnifyDeveloping a Ubiquitous LanguagePutting Scenarios to WorkWhat about the Long Haul?ArchitectureSummary

What Is a Subdomain?Types of SubdomainsDealing with ComplexitySummary
Kinds of MappingsPartnershipShared KernelCustomer-SupplierConformistAnticorruption LayerOpen Host ServicePublished LanguageSeparate WaysBig Ball of MudMaking Good Use of Context MappingRPC with SOAPRESTful HTTPMessagingAn Example in Context MappingSummary
Why UsedAggregate Rules of ThumbRule 1: Protect Business Invariants inside Aggregate BoundariesRule 2: Design Small AggregatesRule 3: Reference Other Aggregates by Identity OnlyRule 4: Update Other Aggregates Using Eventual ConsistencyModeling AggregatesChoose Your Abstractions CarefullyRight-Sizing AggregatesTestable UnitsSummary
Designing, Implementing, and Using Domain EventsEvent SourcingSummary
Event StormingOther ToolsManaging DDD on an Agile ProjectFirst Things FirstUse SWOT AnalysisModeling Spikes and Modeling DebtIdentifying Tasks and Estimating EffortTimeboxed ModelingHow to ImplementInteracting with Domain ExpertsSummary

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Chapter 1. DDD for Me

You want to improve your craft and to increase your success on projects. You are eager to help your business compete at new heights using the software you create. You want to implement software that not only correctly models your business’s needs but also performs at scale using the most advanced software architectures. Learning Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and learning it quickly, can help you achieve all of this and more.

DDD is a set of tools that assist you in designing and implementing software that delivers high value, both strategically and tactically. Your organization can’t be the best at everything, so it had better choose carefully at what it must excel. The DDD strategic development tools help you and your team ...