Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Use DDD to Simplify, Not to Complicate

primarily want to use DDD in the areas that are most important to the business

domain experts and software developers are devoted to jointly developing a Ubiquitous Language

DDD brings domain experts and software developers together in order to develop software that reflects the mental model of the business experts

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works

think there has been a general abandonment of good design and development practices in the Java community. These days it may be difficult to find a clean, explicit domain model in most Java-based projects

Nine years after my book, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, was published, there’s actually a lot to say about DDD that is new, and there are new ways to talk about the fundamentals