If you haven't read anything on DDD and don't understand the pieces and parts, don't read this first. This isn't a good book for introducing the concepts - see Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans for the foundational information.
While I like it from its simplicity, understand that this shouldn't be referred to for the first exposure to DDD topics. I feel like it gets high-level enough to paint the picture of concepts and tools, but it doesn't provide enough depth to be foundational.
Once you get the foundation in, then DDD Distilled makes more sense on its purpose. This is a high-level overview - talking of strategic vs tactical design and including DDD terminology throughout those comparisons. From ubiquitous language and bounded contexts to aggregates and domain events, there are discussions of these DDD concepts with an example that a developer in a Scrum environment could relate to. In the end, he gives a list of tools that can be useful in getting started with DDD.
Keep in mind that this isn't a super in-depth book. Implementing Domain-Driven Design is referred to throughout the book as a reminder of more specific implementations.
If you want a high-level supplement of understanding concepts and recommendations of tools, this could be good for that.
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Software Architects and DevelopersThis book is for everyone interested in learning the most important DDD aspects and tools and in learning quickly. The most common readers are software architects and software developers who will put DDD into practice on projects. Very often, software developers quickly discover the beauty of DDD and are keenly attracted to its powerful tooling. |
ConsultantsIf you are a consultant and you are working with a client to whom you have recommended the use of DDD, provide this book as a way to bring the major stakeholders up to speed quickly. If you have developers—perhaps junior or midlevel or even senior—working on your project who are unfamiliar with DDD but need to use it very soon, make sure that they read this book. By reading this book, at minimum, all the project stakeholders and developers will have the vocabulary and understand the primary DDD tools being used. This will enable them to share things meaningfully as they move the project forward. |
Anyone in ITI have made the subject understandable for executives, domain experts, managers, business analysts, information architects, and testers alike. There’s really no limit to those in the information technology (IT) industry and research and development (R&D) environments who can benefit from reading this book. |
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* How to think about organizational domains, and how to carve them.
* How to model data (which goes into primary keys)
* How to architect software (which goes into RPC, SOAP, and JSON, immutable objects and functional programming). Complete with examples in C#.
* Basic agile practices with SWOT.
Without further explanation all of the tech including the analogies will be fluff to any programmer who understands JSON and database normalization. There is absolutely 0 value here.
Attached is a picture with two graphs - duplicated, one with more circles. The fluff is obvious here. This is how the book is laid out for the organizational analysis. Lots of circles taking many pages show you how to break down an organization or problem in ways that I found to be entirely intuitive.
The vocabulary here is extremely thick. Ever meet someone who insisted that a Product Owner was totally different from a Project Manager, and couldn't relate to you with terms you already knew? That about describes this whole book. The complexity is the author's language, and the muddy thought process more than the problem space. Here this is a direct quote for example (pg 77)
> Each Aggregate is composed of one or more Entities, where one Entity is called the Aggregate Root. Aggregates may also have Value Objects composed on them. As you see here, Value Objects are used inside both Aggregates.
Below that quote it says,
> A Value Object, or simply a Value, models an immutable conceptual whole.
So let put it together and figure out what this Aggregate is from this introduction,
> Aggregates may have models of an immutable conceptual whole.
What is he even trying to say? At best, imagine another 100 pages with that kind of word vomit describing things you already know, but replete with references to other books by the author.
The worst things about middle management, concentrated into a book and marketed as wisdom abridged
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019
You know it's deep when the author introduces himself as a "veteran software craftsman". This book breaks down into a few sections:Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019
* How to think about organizational domains, and how to carve them.
* How to model data (which goes into primary keys)
* How to architect software (which goes into RPC, SOAP, and JSON, immutable objects and functional programming). Complete with examples in C#.
* Basic agile practices with SWOT.
Without further explanation all of the tech including the analogies will be fluff to any programmer who understands JSON and database normalization. There is absolutely 0 value here.
Attached is a picture with two graphs - duplicated, one with more circles. The fluff is obvious here. This is how the book is laid out for the organizational analysis. Lots of circles taking many pages show you how to break down an organization or problem in ways that I found to be entirely intuitive.
The vocabulary here is extremely thick. Ever meet someone who insisted that a Product Owner was totally different from a Project Manager, and couldn't relate to you with terms you already knew? That about describes this whole book. The complexity is the author's language, and the muddy thought process more than the problem space. Here this is a direct quote for example (pg 77)
> Each Aggregate is composed of one or more Entities, where one Entity is called the Aggregate Root. Aggregates may also have Value Objects composed on them. As you see here, Value Objects are used inside both Aggregates.
Below that quote it says,
> A Value Object, or simply a Value, models an immutable conceptual whole.
So let put it together and figure out what this Aggregate is from this introduction,
> Aggregates may have models of an immutable conceptual whole.
What is he even trying to say? At best, imagine another 100 pages with that kind of word vomit describing things you already know, but replete with references to other books by the author.
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Angel M. Cereijo
Teoría base sobre como desarrollar con una metodología DDD
Reviewed in Spain on February 5, 2023Mr. A. A. Kenny
Brief yet concise and explained clearly
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Best introduction to DDD you will find
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2017chris lesage
Finally a great DDD distillation/introduction
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2016Amazon Customer
Not sure what I dislike more: this book or DDD itself
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2018
