Domain-Driven Design: The First 15 Years
Free!
Minimum price
$19.99
Suggested price

Domain-Driven Design: The First 15 Years

Essays from the DDD Community

About the Book

Fifteen years after the publication of "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software" by Eric Evans, DDD is gaining more adoption than ever. To celebrate the anniversary, we've asked prominent authors in the software design world to contribute old and new essays. With contributions by Martin Fowler, James Coplien, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Mel Conway, and many more.

About the Editor

DDD Europe
The DDD Community

Domain-Driven Design Europe is the world's leading DDD conference.

About the Contributors

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Scott Millett
Scott Millett

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/scottmillett

Scott Wlaschin
Scott Wlaschin
Vladik Khononov
Vladik Khononov
Weronika Łabaj
Weronika Łabaj
Julie Lerman
Julie Lerman
Alberto Brandolini
Alberto Brandolini

I am helping teams and companies to develop brilliant solutions to complex problems. Sometimes this involves writing software. Sometimes this involves working with people. I like both ways, especially when it leads me into unexplored territories.

I've been coding since 1982, experimenting since ...forever? This led me into Agile, Domain-Driven Design, Lean, Complexity, Management 3.0 and everything needed in order to solve the problem.

I am a father, a husband, an entrepreneur, a consultant, a developer, a teacher, a public speaker, a cook, a drummer... now it's time to be a writer.

A glimpse of what I am into can be found on my blog, and I've been speaking in quite a few places lately. My presentation track is available here.

I run avanscopertaone of the coolest places on earth to teachlearn and experiment

Alexey Zimarev
Alexey Zimarev
Anita Kvamme
Anita Kvamme
Avraham Poupko
Avraham Poupko
Cyrille Martraire
Cyrille Martraire

Cyrille is co-founder of Arolla, a Paris-based company specializing in Software Craftsmanship. Cyrille is a developer with passion since 1999 in several startups, software vendors and banks. Passionate about design in every aspect (TDD, BDD, DDD), he also founded the Paris Software Craftsmanship community and is a regular speaker in Paris, Europe and US.

Still addicted to development, Cyrille  dedicates a large part of his energy for clients, hands-on in the code, yet also deeply involved in the business analysis and company-scale transformation initiatives. Over the course of 15 years and many different projects in many contexts, he has tried with his colleagues and peers in other companies many non standard documentation techniques, some more successful than others, always with the end goal of harnessing documentation to raise the bar in software design as a result. 

David West
David West
Einar Landre
Einar Landre
Indu Alagarsamy
Indu Alagarsamy
James Coplien
James Coplien
Jef Claes
Jef Claes
Jeremie Chassaing
Jeremie Chassaing
Kenny Baas-Schwegler
Kenny Baas-Schwegler

A lot of knowledge is lost when designing and building software — lost because of hand-overs in a telephone game, confusing communication by not having a shared language, discussing complexity without visualisation and by not leveraging the full potential and wisdom of the people. That lost knowledge impacts the quality and value of the software product being build. By leveraging Deep Democracy, Domain-Driven Design, Continuous Delivery and visual collaborate tools, Kenny Baas-Schwegler empowers organisations, teams and people in building valuable quality software products.

One of my core principles is sharing knowledge. I do that by blogging on my website baasie.com I also organise several meetups like Virtual Domain-Driven Design, Domain Driven Design Nederland, and I am a public speaker giving talks and hands-on workshops at conferences and meetups.

Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler
Mathias Verraes
Mathias Verraes

Mathias Verraes is the founder of Aardling, a software modelling & design consultancy, with a penchant for complex environments. His focus is on design strategy and messaging-centric domain modelling. Since leaving a lead developer job in 2011 and moving to consulting in 2011, Mathias has worked with clients in Finance, Government, Supply Chain, Mobility, Energy, E-Commerce, and more.

Mathias writes about software design at verraes.net since 2011. As a speaker, he's been at many major conferences such as NDC and Goto, and has been a keynote speaker DDD eXchange, ExploreDDD, KanDDDinsky, and others. Occasionally, he teaches courses on Domain-Driven Design & messaging architecture. Mathias is also the founder of the DDD Europe conference.

Mathias has a Masters in Music from the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, and is an autodidact on software. When he’s at home in Kortrijk, Belgium, he helps his two sons build crazy Lego contraptions.

Mel Conway
Mel Conway
Michiel Overeem
Michiel Overeem

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Distilling DDD Into First Principles — Scott Millett
  • To DDD or not to DDD… What to do if your domain is boring? — Weronika Łabaj
  • Discovering Bounded Contexts with EventStorming — Alberto Brandolini
  • Emergent Contexts through Refinement — Mathias Verraes
  • The Captain of the Night Watch — Indu Alagarsamy
  • Traces, Tracks, Trails, and Paths: An Exploration of How We Approach Software Design — Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
  • Ubiquitous Language - More Than Just Shared Vocabulary — Avraham Poupko
  • Domain Modeling with Algebraic Data Types — Scott Wlaschin
  • Domain Modeling with Monoids — Cyrille Martraire
  • Enhancing DDD — Prof. David West
  • Are you building the right thing? — Alexey Zimarev
  • Multiple Canonical Models – Martin Fowler
  • From Human Decisions, to Suggestions to Automated Decisions – Jef Claes
  • Time — Jérémie Chassaing
  • Agents aka Domain objects on steroids – Einar Landre
  • Domain-Driven Design as Usability for Coders — Anita Kvamme
  • Model Exploration Whirlpool – Kenny Baas-Schwegler
  • Domain-Driven Design as a Centered Set — Paul Rayner
  • DDD — The Misunderstood Mantra — James O. Coplien
  • Free the Collaboration Barrier - Mel Conway
  • 7 Years of DDD: Tackling Complexity in a Large-Scale Marketing System — Vladik Khononov
  • Tackling Complexity in ERP Software: a Love Song to Bounded Contexts — Machiel de Graaf and Michiel Overeem
  • Calm Your Spirit with Bounded Contexts – Julie Lerman
  • Notes

The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.

Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.

You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!

So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?

See full terms...

80% Royalties. Earn $16 on a $20 book.

We pay 80% royalties. That's not a typo: you earn $16 on a $20 sale. If we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book or course for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)

In fact, authors have earnedover $13 millionwriting, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub

Free Updates. DRM Free.

If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).

Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.

Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.

Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them

Write and Publish on Leanpub

You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.

Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub