Domain Driven Design

Data meshes and microservices - the similarities are uncanny

10 January 2022

The data mesh is doing for data warehousing what microservices did for solution architecture…

Architecture without documentation is incomplete

17 October 2020

Designing good architecture is only half the battle. You also need to be able to communicate your architecture to anybody who is likely to use it.

Naming things is easy. Abstraction is much harder.

13 June 2020

One of the more pervasive myths in software development is that naming things is hard.

Splitting up shared databases

6 October 2019

The problem of shared databases is not confined to monolithic systems. A big store of shared state is the guilty secret lurking in many a microservice architecture.

Finding service boundaries: more than just the bounded context

6 January 2019

When you are identifying service boundaries, it’s not enough to consider the domain model alone. There are other, more pragmatic concerns to bear in mind.

How can Domain Driven Design help with large scale agile development?

20 September 2017

Agile teams spend time modelling software whether they are prepared to admit it or not. Adopting a technique like Domain Driven Design can help to make this more efficient, particularly at scale.

How big is a microservice?

9 March 2015

We know that micro services are small and focused by design – just how small is this in practice?