Experience report

Phil Wills tells the story of the rebuilding of the platform of the guardian.co.uk using the principles of DDD. This online newspaper (3 time winner of the 'Best Newspaper' Webby) has 29 million unique users and hundreds of millions of impressions per month, with over million articles including audio and video content.
by Sam Peng and Ying Hu

Custom House's new currency exchange system is integrated with a legacy system. After a few years of growth, the two systems were so intricately tangled that even small changes made in the integration layer would have unpredictable side effects. Refactoring on the integration layer was risky and time consuming. The situation called for a revolutionary redesign.
by Vladimir Gitlevich

We tend to think of the identity of objects as a simple, even technical thing, but the identity of domain entities are an important part of a model, and in a complex domain they can be subtle concepts in their own right.
by Ying Hu and Sam Peng

Results of making key value objects explicit.

At Custom House, a team developing on-line currency exchange products modeled a handful of key value objects at the heart of their domain. Read how they discovered them, how they retrofitted a large existing code-base, and the effects on the system as it has evolved over time. Or watch Ying's presentation on OOPSLA 2007.

Part 1 of a two-part report by Einar Landre, Harald Wesenberg and Harald Ronneberg

An architecture team applies Strategic Design in innovative ways, guiding purchase decisions and enterprise architecture using context mapping and distillation of the core domain. This paper has been accepted for OOPSLA 2006 in Portland, Oregon.

 

Part 2 of a two-part report by Einar Landre, Harald Wesenberg and Harald Ronneberg
by J. B. Rainsberger Domain-driven design provides agility in the face of database inertia.
by Bruce Gordon A model of domain concepts and commands keeps development loosely coupled to mainframe and J2EE.
by Kumar Brahnmath A simple model enables extentions and usability improvements to a complex legacy.
by Patrick Logan Economic gain in the form of market responsiveness is shown by this story. A model-driven redesign of an existing system that was originally built on a different principle yields design agility.
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