Domain Modeling Made Functional

Wrapping Up the Book

We’ve covered a lot of ground in this book, from ruminations on high-level abstractions like bounded contexts all the way down to the minutia of serialization formats.

We haven’t had a chance to cover many important topics: web services, security, and operational transparency, to name a few. However, in the process of working through this book, I hope you’ve developed some techniques and skills that you can apply to any design problem.

Let’s highlight some of the most important practices that we’ve talked about:

• We should aim to develop a deep, shared understanding of a domain before starting the low-level design. We picked up some discovery techniques (Event Storming) and communication techniques (the use of a Ubiquitous ...