Problem: DDD practitioners acknowledge the importance of Ubiquitous Language (UL), only to ... treat it as a dry dictionary (a vocabulary for entities and value objects). Instead of analyzing the *deep* semantics of UL, we prefer to shape models from scratch using tactical framing (aggregates, repositories, etc.). That increases a margin...
> Quo vadis? (lat. Whither goest thou?) Last week I attended this year's edition of one of my favourite software craftsmanship-related conferences: DDD Europe [https://dddeurope.com/2020/]. It was a good time, I've met interesting people, attended a few workshops, enjoyed beautiful weather in always welcoming Amsterdam, but ... I couldn't...
The first post in the series can be found here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/a-game-changing-value-of-missing-abstractions-part-i/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last week I've presented one aspect of complexity of the transactional part of our platform - availability (when trying to book a new appointment). And what is more important, how one modelling trick has...
Few months ago I've published a short article [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/the-anatomy-of-a-model-debt/] about what is a Model Debt & why it matters. Today I'd like to provide you with two nice, crispy examples that illustrate the idea. Both are coming from the Domain I currently work on with my teams...
> This blog post is all about: the common part of "Shallow DDD" & "Aesthetic Clean Code", what really is Business Logic (& why you may be wrong about it ...), what part of BL is really within your "algorithmic" (imperative) code and where you should really apply your focus to if you want...
> This blog post is all about: the definition of what Model Debt is (& what isn't), how is it created (& why), how to avoid growing Model Debt, whether Model Debt does have anything in common with Technical Debt (& can one use technology to fix it). Disclaimer #1: I was considering writing...
