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Domain-Driven Design: The Big Picture

by Sander Mak

Domain-Driven Design offers many guiding principles and patterns to design software. This course will teach you how to navigate this landscape, learning what DDD is and when to apply it.

What you'll learn

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) encompasses many concepts and principles around software design which may seem daunting at first. In this course, Domain-Driven Design: The Big Picture, you’ll get an overview of the essential concepts of DDD. First, you’ll learn the philosophy behind DDD and when it makes sense to apply it. Next, you’ll learn about strategic design, for example using Bounded Contexts. Finally, you’ll look at tactical design concepts offered by DDD, such as entities, aggregates, and domain services. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll know what DDD is all about, so you can determine whether you want to dive in deeper and learn how to implement DDD in practice.

About the author

Sander is Director of Technology at Picnic —the Dutch online grocery scale-up— building Java-based systems at scale. He also is a Java Champion and author of the O'Reilly book 'Java 9 Modularity' (see javamodularity.com). As an avid conference speaker, Sander loves sharing knowledge, also through his blog at http://branchandbound.net and as Pluralsight instructor.

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