What is Domain Driven Design?

Question

Can somebody please explain (in succinct terms) what exactly is domain driven design? I see the term quite a lot but really don\'t understand what it is or what it looks like. H

Answer 1

You CAN ONLY understand Domain driven design by first comprehending what the following are:

What is a domain?

The field for which a system is built. Airport management, insurance sales, coffee shops, orbital flight, you name it.

It's not unusual for an application to span several different domains. For example, an online retail system might be working in the domains of shipping (picking appropriate ways to deliver, depending on items and destination), pricing (including promotions and user-specific pricing by, say, location), and recommendations (calculating related products by purchase history).

What is a model?

"A useful approximation to the problem at hand." -- Gerry Sussman

An Employee class is not a real employee. It models a real employee. We know that the model does not capture everything about real employees, and that's not the point of it. It's only meant to capture what we are interested in for the current context.

Different domains may be interested in different ways to model the same thing. For example, the salary department and the human resources department may model employees in different ways.

What is a domain model?

A model for a domain.

What is Domain-Driven Design (DDD)?

It is a development approach that deeply values the domain model and connects it to the implementation. DDD was coined and initially developed by Eric Evans.

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