Mastering Microservices with Java - Third Edition

Bounded context

When you have different sub-models, it is difficult to maintain the code when all sub-models are combined. You need to have a small model that can be assigned to a single team. You might need to collect the related elements and group them. Context keeps and maintains the meaning of the domain term defined for its respective sub-model by applying this set of conditions. Domain models are divided into sub-models, and bounded context distinguishes the context of one sub-domain from the context of another sub-domain.

These domain terms define the scope of the model that creates the boundaries of the context.

Bounded context seems very similar to the module that you learned about in the previous section. In fact, the module is ...