Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Chapter 10: Aggregates

Aggregates are probably the least well understood among DDD’s tactical tools. Yet, if we apply some rules of thumb, Aggregates can be made simpler and quicker to implement. You will learn how to cut through the complexity barrier to use Aggregates that create consistency boundaries around small object clusters. Because of putting too much emphasis on the less important aspects of Aggregates, the project team in our case study stumbled in a few different ways. We step through the team’s iterations with a few modeling challenges and analyze what went wrong and what they did about it. The result of their efforts led to a deeper understanding of their Core Domain. We look in on how the team corrected their mistakes through ...