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Domain-Driven Refactoring

You're reading from   Domain-Driven Refactoring A hands-on DDD guide to transforming monoliths into modular systems and microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835889107
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Colla Alessandro Colla
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Alberto Acerbis Alberto Acerbis
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Why Use Domain-Driven Design to Tackle Complexity?
2. Evolution of Domain-Driven Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Complexity: Problem and Solution Space 4. Strategic Patterns 5. Tactical Patterns 6. Part 2: Refactoring Legacy Systems
7. Introducing Refactoring Principles 8. Transitioning from Chaos 9. Integrating Events with CQRS 10. Refactoring the Database 11. DDD Patterns for Continuous Integration and Continuous Refactoring 12. Part 3: Moving from Monolith to Microservices
13. When and Why You Should Transition to a Microservices Architecture 14. Dealing with Events and Their Evolution 15. Orchestrating Complexity: Advanced Approaches to Business Processes 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Defining terms clearly will solve half of the problem

In his book, Evans makes clear the importance of using the ubiquitous language in conversation with domain experts, and with all team members. To ensure that the comprehension of the problem is clear and without ambiguity due to an incorrect translation from the domain language to the technical language, it is important that the language used in our code base is as close as possible to the domain model. That is because the product that we deploy in production uses the technical language, not the business language.

To achieve that, during the conversation between teammates, no one needs to translate terms from one language to another. Since the software does not cope with ambiguity, we should base the conversation on the domain model. We will explain the domain model concept better later in the What is a bounded context? section of this chapter.

Evans is uncompromising about this:

By using the model-based language...

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