Free Domain-Driven Design Learning Resources

This repository contains a collection of blog posts, videos and other resources for learning Domain-Driven Design. All resources are free to access.

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Table of Contents

1. DDD Introductions & Fundamentals
2. Collaborative Modelling
3. Strategic Design
4. Tactical DDD / Domain-as-code
5. Case Studies
6. DDD Blogs

DDD Introductions and Fundamentals

These resources are typically aimed at beginners providing an overview of DDD as a whole and how the individual concepts fit together.

EBooks

• Domain-Driven Design Reference, Eric Evans

• The Anatomy of Domain-Driven Design, Scott Millett and Samuel Knight

• DDD: The First 15 Years, Various Authors

• Domain-Driven Design Quickly, Abel Avram and Floyd Marinescu

Written Articles

• Domain-Driven Design, Martin Fowler

• Domain-driven design needn't be hard. Here's how to start, Andrew Hamel-law

• DDD Starter Modelling Process

Videos

• What is DDD?, Eric Evans

• Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, Eric Evans

• Getting to DDD: Pragmatic or Principled?, Julie Lerman

Other Resources

• DDD from Product people's perspective, Zsofia Herendi

• Virtual DDD Meetup Group

• DDD-CQRS-ES Slack channel is a very active community to ask questions about anything relating to DDD, and get answers from practitioners in different contexts - Link to join: https://j.mp/ddd-es-cqrs

Collaborative Modelling

These resources teach and show how software development practitioners and domain experts can work together to model business domains.

Written Articles

• Event Storming, Open Practice Library

• Domain Storytelling, Open Practice Library

Videos

• 100,000 Orange Stickies Later, Alberto Brandolini

Other Resources

• Visual Collaboration Tools, Kenny Baas-Schwegler & João Roasa

• Awesome EventStorming, Mariusz Gil

Strategic Design

These resources teach how to decompose a large domain into sub-domains and represent them as high-level architectural components called Bounded Contexts.

Written Articles

• Bounded Context, Martin Fowler

• Tackling business complexity with strategic domain-driven design, Leandro Lages

Videos

• Bounded Contexts, Cyrille Martraire

• Practical DDD: Bounded Contexts + Events, Indu Alagarsamy

• Emergent Boundaries, Matthias Verraes

• Socio-technical architecture, Ora Egozi Barzilai and Evelyn van Kelle

• All Our Aggregates Are Wrong, Mauro Servienti

Other Resources

• Aligning organization and architecture with strategic DDD, Michael Plöd

Tactical DDD / Domain-as-code

These resources show how to design software which is closely aligned to the business domain so that it is easier to understand and change.

Ebooks

• Architecture Patterns with Python, Harry Percival & Bob Gregory

Written Articles

• Aggregates & Entities in Domain-Driven Design, Paul Rayner

• Strengthening your domain: a primer, Jimmy Bogard

Videos

• Domain Modeling Made Functional, Scott Wlaschin

• Design in the small, Yves Reynhout

• Refactoring for DDD Without Microservicing Your Monolith, Harry Brumleve

Other Resources

• DDD By Examples, Jakub Pilimon and Bartłomiej Słota

Case Studies

• OOps I DDD it again and again, Ora Egozi-Barzilai

• 10 Lessons from a Long Running DDD Project, Jimmy Bogard

DDD Blogs

• Alberto Brandolini

• DDD Weekly

• Kenny Baas-Schwegler

• Paul Rayner

• Udi Dahan

• Vladik Khononov

• Zsofia Herendi

Contributions and Inspiration

In addition to the content creators of each of the resources, thanks also goes to the following people:

• Krzysztof Góralski

• Nick Chamberlain

We also thank to all existing and future contributors