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

by Eric Evans

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Evans argues that manageing complexity in enterprise software requires aligning the code's model with the business domain through a shared 'ubiquitous language' between developers and domain experts. He presents a catalog of modelling patterns (Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates, Repositories, Bounded Contexts) that let teams evolve deep domain models by 'refactoring toward deeper insight' rather than drowning in technical detail.

Published:: 2003
Pages:: 560

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In this collection, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software references 3 other books.

It draws on Refactoring, The Mythical Man-Month and The Pragmatic Programmer.

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Evans's bibliography explicitly cites Fowler's Refactoring (1999) and builds 'refactoring toward deeper insight' directly on Fowler's mechanical refactorings as the means of evolving the domain model.

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Refactoring

by Martin Fowler

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Evans cites Brooks's Mythical Man-Month for the 'No Silver Bullet' argument that essential complexity in software lies in the domain itself - the core premise motivating domain-driven modelling.

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The Mythical Man-Month

by Frederick Brooks

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Evans's bibliography cites Hunt and Thomas's Pragmatic Programmer for its emphasis on expressive code and orthogonality - prerequisites for the ubiquitous language to appear in the codebase itself.

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The Pragmatic Programmer

by David Thomas

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