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Domain-Driven Design

  • Number of Courses10 courses
  • Duration34 hours
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Learn the philosophy and major design patterns that underlie the Domain Driven Design approach to software architecture. Understand the importance of focusing on the core domain and domain logic of your business. Explore techniques for refining the conceptual model by between the technical and domain experts. Learn from practical examples implemented in C# and .NET.

Courses in this path

Beginner

Like a building, the strength of your software construction starts with a solid foundation. Here we learn both the basics of clean software architecture design and the fundamental pillars of the Domain Driven Design approach you’ll need in any solution you create.

Domain-Driven Design: The Big Picture

  • by Sander Mak
  • 1h 3m Duration

Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals

  • by Julie Lerman
  • 4h 46m Duration
  •  (471)

Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles

  • by Matthew Renze
  • 2h 20m Duration
  •  (1973)

Intermediate

Once you understand the basic principles, it’s time to learn how to handle the havoc imposed by the real world. Start by learning not just to use DDD in your ground-up designs but how to refactor existing designs to leverage the power of DDD. We’ll also explore how the Specification Pattern can solve a class of problems and how to leverage the power of Modern Object Relational Mapping tools.

Domain-Driven Design in Practice

  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 4h 19m Duration
  •  (826)

Specification Pattern in C#

  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 1h 27m Duration
  •  (409)

Domain-Driven Design: Working with Legacy Projects

  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 3h 51m Duration
  •  (162)

Refactoring from Anemic Domain Model Towards a Rich One

  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 3h 36m Duration
  •  (377)

DDD and EF Core 3: Preserving Encapsulation

  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 3h 39m Duration
  •  (184)

Modern Software Architecture: Domain Models, CQRS, and Event Sourcing

  • by Dino Esposito
  • 4h 25m Duration
  •  (1087)

Advanced

To complete your journey to becoming a DDD architect, we’ll help you take full advantage of the Command Query Responsibility Segregation pattern. You’ll finish with an exploration of using Event Sourcing not only to understand the current state of your application but a trackable history of how it got there.

CQRS in Practice

  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 4h 22m Duration
  •  (436)

Learn with the best

Sander Mak
Sander Mak
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.
Julie Lerman
Julie Lerman
Julie Lerman is a software coach with over 30 years of experience building software. As a coach, Julie provides support for DDD and architecture implementation, facilitates Event Storming workshops and domain discovery. She also provides deep dives into Entity Framework for her clients in the .NET world. Julie is a long-time Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director and Docker Captain who lives in the hills of Vermont and continues to be known as the world’s top expert in E... more
Steve Smith
Steve Smith
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is the top contributor to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helpings others write maintainable, testable app... more
Matthew Renze
Matthew Renze
Matthew Renze is an AI researcher, consultant, and author. As the founder of Renze Consulting, he has trained over 500,000 software developers and IT professionals. As the president of the Renze AI Research Institute, he researches cognitive architectures for agentic AI systems. Matthew has a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Johns Hopkins University. He is a Microsoft MVP in AI, a Microsoft Regional Director, and an author for Pluralsight. You can learn more at https://matthewrenz... more
Vladimir Khorikov
Vladimir Khorikov
Vladimir Khorikov is the author of the book Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns: https://amzn.to/2QXS2ch He has been professionally involved in software development for over 15 years, including mentoring teams on the ins and outs of unit testing. He's also the founder of the Enterprise Craftsmanship blog, where he reaches 500 thousand software developers yearly. He started as an adviser on general programming topics, but lately has shifted his focus to unit testing with a central ... more
Dino Esposito
Dino Esposito
After 20+ books (mostly with Microsoft Press) that educated two generations of .NET and web developers, 1000+ articles, hundreds of conference talks and 10000+ hours of training, Dino returned to pure and pragmatic software development and architecture. As the CTO of Crionet, Dino is the brains behind the software platforms that support 24x7, end-to-end operations in the circuits of professional tennis and padel tournaments and move data from on-court tablets up to betting web sites. Dino is al... more

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