Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Seventeen. Bringing the Strategy Together

The preceding three chapters presented many principles and techniques for domain-driven strategic design. In a large, complex system, you may need to bring several of them to bear on the same design. How does a large-scale structure coexist with a CONTEXT MAP? Where do the building blocks fit in? What do you do first? Second? Third? How do you go about devising your strategy?

Combining Large-Scale Structures and BOUNDED CONTEXTS

Figure 17.1

The three basic principles of strategic design (context, distillation, and large-scale structure) are not substitutes for each other; they are complementary and interact ...