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Domain-Driven Refactoring
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Domain-Driven Refactoring

by Alessandro Colla, Alberto Acerbis
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Strategic Patterns

As you learned in previous chapters, the biggest challenge at the start of any project—whether it’s a greenfield project or a refactoring effort—is the language. By now, the importance of understanding the domain and defining a shared language to build knowledge should be evident. However, creating a ubiquitous language comes with hidden challenges, often stemming from human behavior.

Now that you know how to avoid these mistakes, you are ready to discover the patterns that domain-driven design gives us and learn how to use them during the refactoring of your system.

To do so, we’ll cover the following main topics in this chapter:

  • Defining terms clearly
  • Dividing the domain
  • Dealing with communication between bounded contexts ...
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