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Domain-driven Design

Articles, podcasts, talks, and more about Domain-driven Design.

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Kohäsion

Wie viel Zusammenhang braucht ein Modul?

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Testpyramide oder Testdiamant?

Welche Automatisierungsstrategie passt zu meinem Kontext?

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Identifikation von Pivotal Events im Big Picture EventStorming

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Socio-Technical Architecture as a Competitive Advantage

In today’s business world, technological progress is not just about increasing efficiency—it also unlocks entirely new business opportunities that would be unthinkable without these technologies. As a result, leveraging new technologies effectively has become a key competitive advantage. However, IT decision-makers are increasingly realizing that technology alone is not enough. Instead, companies must understand themselves as socio-technical systems, where technical systems and human interactions are deeply interconnected. This article explores why socio-technical architectures matter for IT decision-makers and how they can create a competitive edge for organizations.

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Von Legacy-Monolithen zu Self-contained Systems

Moderne Architektursysteme teilen die Arbeit in voneinander unabhängige Teams auf. Eine bestehende, monolithische Anwendung muss dafür zerlegt werden.

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Platforms, Teams, and APIs: How Do They Fit Together?

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Common Approaches in the Field of Socio-Technical Architectures

In the age of digitalization and modernization, companies face the challenge of not only keeping up with technological advancements but also optimizing their organizational structures. Socio-technical architectures play a crucial role in this process by focusing on the flow of work, team collaboration, and the seamless integration of technical and social systems. This article explores two key approaches—Team Topologies and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)—and demonstrates how they can help organizations take the first steps toward consciously designing their socio-technical architecture.

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Identification of Team Boundaries

In the context of numerous initiatives and ideas such as Microservices, Agile, Domain-Driven Design, or Team Topologies, the focus is on establishing autonomous, cross-functional teams that exhibit a fast workflow and can respond agilely to changes. However, the challenge lies in finding appropriate boundaries for the areas of responsibility of these teams. This is the focus of this article.

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Compacted State Feeds

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Creating data products with Terraform on AWS

Have you heard of data mesh? Are you intrigued by its potential but uncertain how to get started building data mesh and data products? If so, this article outlines a potential approach and delves into the key concepts behind it!

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Der Kickstart für Softwarearchitektur

Zweifellos: Softwarearchitektur ist ein kompliziertes Thema. Dennoch können schon einige wenige Techniken helfen, die Architektur in vielen Projekten zu verbessern. Dazu muss man sie aber wirklich beherrschen und anwenden können. Wie kann man das dazu notwendige Wissen möglichst einfach und effektiv erlernen?

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Data Mesh: Decentralized Data Analytics for Software Engineers

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Data Mesh to Go: How to Get the Data Product

You know what a data mesh is? You understand its basic principles? But you don’t know how on earth to get the data product? Then I will show you how to extract your data product from your Domain-driven Design (DDD) artifacts.

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Innovation on steroids - Teil 2

Ging es in Teil 1 von „Innovation on Steroids” allgemein um die Innovationskraft von Machine Learning und die Identifizierung von ML Use Cases, beschäftigen wir uns im zweiten Teil mit der Frage, wie wir herausfinden, wo sich der Einsatz von ML/AI lohnt und wie wir danach strukturiert vorgehen.

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Ist Domain-driven Design überbewertet?

Goldenes Kalb oder „nur“ Werkzeug?

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Innovation on steroids - Teil 1

Immer mehr Firmen setzen auf die Innovationskraft von Machine Learning und KI. Aber nicht jedes Problem lässt sich mit dem Einsatz von ML-Technologien lösen. Wie also kann man geeignete ML Use Cases identifizieren?

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Is Domain-driven Design overrated?

Domain-driven design (DDD) is a useful approach that provides excellent guidelines for modeling and building systems, but it is a means to an end, not an end in itself. While the concepts are valid, you lose a lot if you limit yourself to using them only: There actually is a life beyond DDD.

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Domain-driven Design und Bounded Context

Eigentlich ganz einfach, oder?

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Domain-driven Design in the Large

If you know how to classify the concepts of DDD correctly, it will be easy to achieve good results - and there is a structured approach to achieve that!

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Wenn Customizing zur Legacy wird

In diesem Blog-Post visualisiere ich ein regelrechtes Schlamassel mit Hilfe von Wardley Maps und Elementen aus dem strategischem Domain-driven Design.

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Domain-driven Design to the code

Umsetzung des Domänenmodells ohne Technologie-Einfluss

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Command & Control, SAFe, Domain-driven Design, and Release Trains

Large complex projects are difficult to manage. Software release trains are one solution to coordinate such projects. But the approach is not a great fit for self-organization and modern management ideas.

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Identification of quality requirements with Quality Storming

Quality Storming is a workshop for the identification of quality requirements based on a quality model, for example ISO 25010, using methods and ideas of Collaborative Modeling, which is popular in the Domain-driven Design Community. An important aspect in this context is a cross-collaboration of different stakeholders and skill sets.

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Warum Domain-driven Design?

Fachlich sinnvoll schneiden

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code-your-model

Some time ago I was looking for some simple, lightweight tool to document a complex, modularized model. I was not able to find anything that fits my requirements or expectations, so I came up with my own idea. Today, a good 15 months later, I want to introduce it to you.

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Cloud-native, Microservices, Domain-driven Design, Kubernetes

Software-Entwicklung unterliegt schon immer Hypes. Im Moment reden alle über Microservices und Cloud-native. Aber helfen diese Ansätze wirklich weiter?

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Event Storming und Domain Story Telling - Ein Vergleich

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Cooking with Onions: Inward-Pointing Arrows

The onion architecture is an established approach to structuring applications.

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Domain Events vs. Event Sourcing

Why domain events and event sourcing should not be mixed up.

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Domain Events vs. Event Sourcing

Weshalb Domain Events und Event Sourcing nicht vermischt werden sollten

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Was ist ein Domain-driven Design Architektur-Kata?

Architektur-Katas sind ein sehr interaktives Trainingsformat. Sie eignen sich hervorragend, um Domain-driven Design (DDD) zu vermitteln.

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Schubladendenken - aber konstruktiv

Verwendung von Stereotypen im Code als Basis für ein gemeinsames Architekturverständnis - und mehr

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Domain Exceptions?

Gibt es fachliche Ausnahmen und ist es sinnvoll, diese als Exceptions zu modellieren?

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DDD mit Onion Architecture

3 Gründe, weshalb Onion Architecture für die Umsetzung von Bounded Contexts nach Domain-driven Design besonders geeignet ist.

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The language of maths is not the language of your business

Abstractions from category theory can be powerful. But there are reasons why you may want to keep your domain model free of them.

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Domain- und Test-driven Development mit Spring Boot 2 Softwarearchitektur

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Domain-Driven Design

Überblick über Strategic und Technical Design mit DDD

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Microservices lieben Domain Driven Design, warum und wie?

Das Buch Domain Driven Design, welches Eric Evans vor gut 13 Jahren publizierte, galt schon seit jeher als herausragende Referenz für die fachlich getriebene Modellierung von IT-Systemen. Mit dem Einzug von Microservices erfährt Domain Driven Design eine Renaissance, denn die beiden Ideen lassen sich wunderbar miteinander kombinieren. Im Laufe des Artikels werden Sie kennenlernen, wie Sie mit Hilfe der Ideen von Domain Driven Design technisch wie fachlich tragfähigen Microservice Landschaften entwickeln können.

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