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Domain-Driven Design Quickly

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The information in this paper (I wouldn't really call it a book) is useful and helps adjust one's perspective from "get-it-done-yesterday" coding to actually using our brains and thinking about the real-world problems we're trying to solve. It is indeed a Cliff's Notes version of Domain-Driven Design. The ordering of the chapters makes sense and progresses from simple concepts to more complicated ones.

Unfortunately, this paper reads like it was written in just a couple of days. The author uses prose throughout, and the text is in desperate need of an editor. Words that don't exist, unnecessary punctuation and other grammatical mistakes litter the text. Normally I wouldn't be too concerned about this except that the vast majority of the text suffers from this problem. It's actually quite distracting.

I would give this booklet only a star, and the star is only warranted because it's a decent topic and it appears that the authors have something of an understanding of this topic. This is where the compliments end because the booklet is so poorly written that it's nearly unintelligible. The chapters contents are not presented coherently, and appear to jump around from sub-topic to sub-topic on each paragraph without direction. The text is littered with spelling and grammatical errors. The writing style is like a ramble of a disorganized lecture.

I was expecting upon reading the description of this text that it would simply be a highly consolidated reference to the definitions created in Eric Evan's DDD. I was hoping that there would be a few instructional chapters, with the focus being on the correlations of the DDD concepts. I was hoping I could quickly and decisively refresh my memory on the terms of DDD by briefly skimming this text. Instead I found myself muddling through a long ramble where every second or third sentence requires careful inspection to ascertain what the intended statement is.

If you can forgo reading a print copy, this 100-page book is freely available online, courtesy of InfoQ, in PDF form. I have not yet read the primary reference by Eric Evan, who coined the term Domain-Driven Design (DDD). Therefore, I can't comment on how well this summary distills the DDD concept. Nevertheless, this short book is easy to read and understand, and I appreciated the thought-provoking perspective presented about domain model design.

To oversimplify at the risk of not giving the authors sufficient analytical credit, I would reword the title as "Cliff Notes for Eric Evans DDD Book."

And you know what, it gets even better. You don't even have to read the whole 95 pages. IMO, the book is extremely well organized, and the reader can glean some important concepts just from skimming it in a first pass. Thereafter, as needed, the book serves very well as a handy reference.

I post this review after pulling it off the shelf to help me convince a newly formed group that we need a "What Should This Thing Do?" wiki page in addition to a "Deliverables" wiki page.