Unlocking Business Value with Domain-Driven Design

The best justification for using any technology or technique is to provide value to the business.

Developing software that delivers business value differs from developing ordinary business software. Use Domain-Driven Design to model a complex domain in the simplest possible way. Never use DDD to make your solution more challenging.

We, developers, are technical thinkers. Technical solutions come to us. It’s not that thinking is terrible. It’s that there are times when thinking less is better.

A Domain, in the broad sense, refers to what an organization does and the world it operates in. When working with a specific domain, think of the standard terms and actions of the model. The core of a business is its business process, which developers must focus on automating.

An organization’s domain refers to its area of expertise and the environment in which it operates.

The Domain model serves as the foundation of an application. The framework or any specific tool does not dictate the business process; the proper automation of the domain does. To ensure a comprehensive and understandable model, we use a language based on the model and consider it…