Episode 60 – Software Architecture – The Domain in Domain Driven Design

We continue our Domain Driven Design conversation this week as Allen is indecisive, Michael decides for him, and Joe can’t handle the night life.

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The Domain in Domain Driven Design

Domain Layer

• Try not to use anemic domain models, which focus on state rather than behavior
• Do use rich domain models – these focus on behavior, not just the state
• Should represent concepts of the business
• Should contain information about the business situation
• Contains business rules
• Technical details of storing these things are delegated to the infrasturcture layer….NOT HERE
• Behaviors are king – “what can you DO” – not what attributes are saved

Entities

• An object that’s not just a bundle of values – must live on – has an identity and are mutable
• Associating entities – if you can get by with single direction associations, you will GREATLY simplify your life
  • Start with single way associations
• Shouldn’t have an equals operator?

Value Objects

• Measure, quantify or describe a thing in the domain
• It’s identity is the composition of it’s values – does not carry an identity field
• Immutable
• Compared using a combination of all its values
• Can’t have side effects
• Money is a great value object. 100,000 means nothing without a unit – prime candidate for a value object
• You should strive to use value objects wherever possible rather than entities
• A time range, as described in the Pluralsight course is a great example as well – a start and an end date – and those may have additional methods

Domain Services

• Important operations that don’t belong to a particular Entity or Value Object
• Have interfaces defined in terms of other domain model elements
• Stateless (but may have side effects)
• Exist in the core of the app
• A domain service would be responsible for things like processing a payment

Resources We Like

• Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals by Julie Lerman and Steve Smith (available at Pluralsight)
• Modern Software Architecture: Domain Models, CQRS, and Event Sourcing by Dino Esposito (available at Pluralsight)
• Domain Driven Design – Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans (available at Amazon)
• http://DDDCommunity.org
• http://DomainLanguage.com

Tip of the Week

• Want help on your side project? Make it easy for others to help:
  • Put your code on GitHub.
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    • If it’s trivial, then it will be trivial to document.
  • Create an issue describing the issue as “help wanted”
    • Assign the issue to Joe. /8)
• Think you know PowerShell? Check out how Mike F Robbins gets our feed.
• Remarkable – Markdown parser, done right (available on GitHub).
• Format your JSON with ease:
  • https://jsonformatter.org/
  • https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/

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