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Alan Barr
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Is Domain-Driven Design relevant?

I found a FREE guide on Domain-Driven Design that I found helpful. How is it relevant anymore?

It seems like writing code is less significant than modeling your system.

Have you found value in domain-driven design techniques? Or did you find that modeling is not worth the effort?

What do you think?

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Cesar Aguirre •

Like pretty much every technique, DDD has its use cases: complex business logic. I've seen DDD taken to the extreme and used as a golden hammer, for example I've seen CRUD-like application made extremely complex because someone decided to use DDD

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Ibrahim Shamma •

The CRUD system, itself does not imply intent, and that's the issue.
What if I want to make a promotion on specific item, in the crud world I update the item price, since everything is aggregated.
But what if I want to update the price for 3 days and then revert back?
As you can see my CRUD makes it complicated

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Martin Persson •

I'm reading Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin and its completely blown my mind. I haven't got the chance to work with it yet tho.

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Alan Barr •

Great reminder! C# has records now! I might need to read it again.

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Sanchit Rk • • Edited

Absolutely, concepts of DDD does help you to understand the sytems you are building better. I am currently learning DDD and started to share my journey as I am building a SaaS app - you can check out here Building SaaS with DDD & Clean Architecture in Python — Issue 1

You don't have to follow or be a hardcore DDD dev, follow what works best for the system that you are building, there is no perfect architecture.

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Ibrahim Shamma •

The only issue with DDD is it really hard