Domain-Driven Design: Hidden Lessons from the Big Blue Book

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Argues that the 15-year-old DDD book hides practical moves for today: use event storming to map processes end-to-end and involve developers in continuous discovery; apply concrete heuristics (for example the money heuristic, marry‑me, T1000, Erlang) to decide when to refactor, wrap, or split code; treat bounded contexts as team boundaries so teams gain autonomy — one case shows a squad decoupling about 95% of dependencies and delivering months ahead.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:01CONTINUOUS DISCOVERY & DELIVERY
3. 8:16SUSTAINABLE EVOLUTION
4. 9:06HOW TO CREATE EVOLVABLE SYSTEMS
5. 11:20EVENT STORMING
6. 12:01MODEL DOMAIN AS TIMELINE
7. 12:57ADD COMMANDS, USERS, POLICIES
8. 13:08EXTERNAL SYSTEMS, MONEY, UX
9. 13:52PERSONAL ES TRIUMPHS
10. 15:33HIDDEN LESSONS
11. 17:49ANTI-CORRUPTION LAYER
12. 20:12LEGACY LASAGNE
13. 21:53HEURISTICS FROM THE BOOK
14. 22:45MORE HEURISTICS
15. 24:43GAME OF THRONES HEURISTIC
16. 25:41HEURISTICS MASTERS
17. 28:53MULTIPLE HIDDEN CONTEXTS
18. 29:04MULTIPLE BOUNDED CONTEXTS
19. 33:59HOW TO FIND BOUNDARIES
20. 36:59DESIGNING COMPLEX SYSTEMS

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