Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Domain-Driven Design fills that need. This isn’t a book about specific technologies. It offers readers a systematic approach to domain-driven design, presenting an extensive set of design best practices, experience-based techniques, and fundamental principles that facilitate the development of software projects facing complex domains. Intertwining design and development practice, this book comprises a large number of examples in line with actual projects to illustrate the application of domain-driven design to real-world software development.

Readers learn to use a domain model to make a complex development effort more focused and dynamic. A core of best practices and standard patterns provides a common language for the development team. A shift in emphasis–refactoring not just the code but the model underlying the code–in combination with the frequent iterations of Agile development ends up in deeper insight into domains and enhanced communication between domain expert and programmer. Domain-Driven Design then builds in this foundation, and addresses modeling and design for complex systems and larger organizations.Specific topics covered include:

With this book in hand, object-oriented developers, system analysts, and designers will have the guidance they wish to organize and focal point their work, create wealthy and useful domain models, and leverage those models into quality, long-lasting software implementations.