Learning Domain-Driven Design

Learning Domain-Driven Design can scare beginners. Here is a little guide to help you choose the best DDD courses for you and your team.

Domain-Driven Design has evolved since its origins and Eric Evans’s original vision. What was initially considered a sophisticated object-oriented architecture has flourished into an all-around approach to software development.

The growing attention towards Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture brought new popularity to Domain-Driven Design, which offers the best conceptual toolkit for successfully decomposing complex architectures and flows into loosely coupled components.

In modern Domain-Driven Design, architecture and craft provide options and confidence, blending with strategy and vision.

Meanwhile, EventStorming and other collaborative modelling techniques offer a more engaging and effective way to learn the domain complexity faster and establish better connections between tech and business stakeholders.

Lately, the influence of domain-driven design has also played a role in the growing discussion surrounding team topologies. Bounded contexts became even more crucial in defining responsibility boundaries between cooperating teams. (More about this in our blog article: About Team Topologies and Context Mapping).

Our core DDD courses

It’s hard to wrap all the knowledge about Domain-Driven Design into a single DDD course, so we have more than one:

• If you’re looking for a concise (3-hour) overview that can also evolve into a multi-perspective discussion, then the online DDD Executive View with Alberto Brandolini is the best way to understand Domain-Driven Design and its implications for your ecosystem.
• Domain-Driven Design Modelling Workshop with Alberto Brandolini is a 3-day immersive in-person journey into collaborative modelling, from Big Picture EventStorming to Context Mapping and aggregate design.
• Domain Models in Practice with Marco Heimeshoff is a five-session remote training course connecting strategy and collaborative modelling with a modern implementation in CQRS/ES.
• If DDD seems too vast and complicated (and you’re Italian), Domain-Driven Design made simple with Luca Giovenzana and Gabriele Toselli can be a great way to move your first practical steps into DDD without getting overwhelmed by the many options.
• Scott Wlaschin’s Domain Modelling Made Functional workshop is the perfect choice if your challenge is to map DDD concepts into functional paradigms.
• Bruno Boucard and Kenny Baas-Schwegler‘s Deep Dive into Model-Driven Design focuses on the last mile, specifically how code quality, solutions, and practice provide feedback to improve our models, feeling the loop closing under our typing fingers.

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• EventStorming Masterclass with Alberto Brandolini specifically targets aspiring facilitators in the different EventStorming formats.
• EventStorming Remote Experience gives you the best tools for a successful online modelling experience, specifically designed for remote development teams.
• Gianluca Padovani‘s Microservices Practical Training will guide you from an EventStorming model towards a microservices implementation. The hands-on approach will connect theory and models with practical field experience.