Summary

Eric Evans published this in 2003 to give practitioners a shared vocabulary for the modeling problems he kept encountering on enterprise projects, coining terms including ubiquitous language and bounded context that remain the field's standard reference points. The book moves from building a shared language between developers and domain experts, through binding that model to implementation, to strategic patterns for keeping a model coherent as a system grows past what one team can hold in their heads. Later chapters on distillation and large-scale structure address problems that only surface once the earlier tactical patterns are already in place. It reads less as a tutorial and more as the source text that later, friendlier introductions to DDD summarize and reorganize.

Editor's Note

For advanced readers who want to verify the origin and precise definitions of the concepts at the source. Most effective after getting the big picture from an introductory text; dense, and best used as a long-term reference than a single read.

Target Readers

• Architects who have read an introductory DDD book and now want the original definitions and reasoning behind the terms
• Engineers on enterprise projects where the domain model has grown too large for any one team to hold in their heads
• Readers willing to work through dense, example-heavy prose in exchange for the source of concepts other books summarize

Colophon

Publisher

Shoeisha

ISBN

978-4798121963

Published

Apr 2011

List price

¥5,720incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon