{"id":85,"date":"2005-02-11T00:56:46","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coding.mu\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/02\/11\/domain-driven-design-the-ultimate-solution\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:00:31","slug":"domain-driven-design-the-ultimate-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/2005\/02\/11\/domain-driven-design-the-ultimate-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain-Driven Design, the quest for software perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <em><a href=\"http:\/\/domaindrivendesign.org\">Domain-Driven Design<\/a><\/em> by Eric Evans since last August. Although the book covers the interesting topic of designing software, it has been difficult to read for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a developer, I&#8217;m primarily interested in code. Because Eric provides few practical examples, I have to pause frequently to translate his concepts into code. Eventually I had to accept that he only gives guidance for modelling and that implementation decisions need to be my own. When I realised this, I was able to enjoy the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering software development as an engineering discipline, we take a rigid approach in writing programs. We think that scientific and mathematical thinking alone is sufficient to solve technical problems, but creativity is also important. As I continue to read this book, I become more convinced that DDD is simply another artistic style of programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans since last August. Although the book covers the interesting topic of designing software, it has been difficult to read for me. As a developer, I&#8217;m primarily interested in code. Because Eric provides few practical examples, I have to pause frequently to translate his concepts into code. Eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3I4g9-1n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}