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Domain-Driven Design

10 Courses
34 Hours
Skill IQ

Learn the philosophy and major design patterns that underlie the Domain Driven Design approach to software architecture. Understand the importance of focusing on the core domain and domain logic of your business. Explore techniques for refining the conceptual model by between the technical and domain experts. Learn from practical examples implemented in C# and .NET.

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Beginner

Like a building, the strength of your software construction starts with a solid foundation. Here we learn both the basics of clean software architecture design and the fundamental pillars of the Domain Driven Design approach you’ll need in any solution you create.

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Domain-Driven Design: The Big Picture
  • by Sander Mak
  • 1h 3m
  • Sep 30, 2024
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Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals
  • by Steve Smithby Julie Lerman
  • 4h 46m
  • Sep 27, 2024
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Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles
  • by Matthew Renze
  • 2h 20m
  • Feb 24, 2025
Intermediate

Once you understand the basic principles, it’s time to learn how to handle the havoc imposed by the real world. Start by learning not just to use DDD in your ground-up designs but how to refactor existing designs to leverage the power of DDD. We’ll also explore how the Specification Pattern can solve a class of problems and how to leverage the power of Modern Object Relational Mapping tools.

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Domain-Driven Design in Practice
  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 4h 19m
  • May 22, 2020
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Specification Pattern in C#
  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 1h 27m
  • Jul 01, 2017
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Domain-Driven Design: Working with Legacy Projects
  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 3h 51m
  • Aug 07, 2020
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Refactoring from Anemic Domain Model Towards a Rich One
  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 3h 36m
  • Oct 16, 2018
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DDD and EF Core 3: Preserving Encapsulation
  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 3h 39m
  • Apr 14, 2022
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Modern Software Architecture: Domain Models, CQRS, and Event Sourcing
  • by Dino Esposito
  • 4h 25m
  • Jan 02, 2020
Advanced

To complete your journey to becoming a DDD architect, we’ll help you take full advantage of the Command Query Responsibility Segregation pattern. You’ll finish with an exploration of using Event Sourcing not only to understand the current state of your application but a trackable history of how it got there.

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CQRS in Practice
  • by Vladimir Khorikov
  • 4h 22m
  • Oct 18, 2018
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What You'll Learn
  • • How to split the problem domain into Core, Generic, and Supporting subdomains and design bounded contexts for them with appropriate level of effort (e.g. rich domain model, transaction script, etc.)
  • • How to identify entities and Value Objects in the domain model
  • • How to choose aggregate boundaries in the bounded context and identify the root entity in the aggregate
  • • How to work with domain events
  • • The Specification pattern
  • • How to identify an anemic domain model and refactor away from it towards a rich one
  • • How to work productively with a legacy project via implementation of an anti-corruption layer
  • • How to map complex domain models using modern ORMs, such as EF Core and NHibernate
  • • How to apply the CQRS pattern in practice
  • • Working with Event Sourcing
Prerequisites
  • C# programming language
Related topics
  • CQRS
  • Clean architecture
  • Event Sourcing
  • Domain Model
  • Clean Code
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Sander Mak
Sander Mak
Sander is Director of Technology at Picnic —the Dutch online grocery scale-up— building Java-based systems at scale. He also is a Java Champion and author of the O'Reilly book 'Java 9 Modularity' (see javamodularity.com). As an avid conference speaker, Sander loves sharing knowledge, also through his blog at http://branchandbound.net and as Pluralsight instructor.
Steve Smith
Steve Smith
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is the top contributor to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helpings others write maintainable, testable app...
Julie Lerman
Julie Lerman
Julie Lerman is a software coach with over 30 years of experience building software. As a coach, Julie provides support for DDD and architecture implementation, facilitates Event Storming workshops and domain discovery. She also provides deep dives into Entity Framework for her clients in the .NET world. Julie is a long-time Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director and Docker Captain who lives in the hills of Vermont and continues to be known as the world’s top expert in E...
Matthew Renze
Matthew Renze
Matthew Renze is an AI researcher, consultant, and author. As the founder of Renze Consulting, he has trained over 500,000 software developers and IT professionals. As the president of the Renze AI Research Institute, he researches cognitive architectures for agentic AI systems. Matthew has a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Johns Hopkins University. He is a Microsoft MVP in AI, a Microsoft Regional Director, and an author for Pluralsight. You can learn more at https://matthewrenz...
Vladimir Khorikov
Vladimir Khorikov
Vladimir Khorikov is the author of the book Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns: https://amzn.to/2QXS2ch He has been professionally involved in software development for over 15 years, including mentoring teams on the ins and outs of unit testing. He's also the founder of the Enterprise Craftsmanship blog, where he reaches 500 thousand software developers yearly. He started as an adviser on general programming topics, but lately has shifted his focus to unit testing with a central ...
Dino Esposito
Dino Esposito
After 20+ books (mostly with Microsoft Press) that educated two generations of .NET and web developers, 1000+ articles, hundreds of conference talks and 10000+ hours of training, Dino returned to pure and pragmatic software development and architecture. As the CTO of Crionet, Dino is the brains behind the software platforms that support 24x7, end-to-end operations in the circuits of professional tennis and padel tournaments and move data from on-court tablets up to betting web sites. Dino is al...

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