Domain Driven Design

Domain-driven design: a unified language for greater understanding

When it comes to developing sophisticated business systems, Domain-driven Design (DDD) is the appropriate approach to software development. DDD uses a uniform and clear ubiquitous language to reduce misunderstandings in interdisciplinary teams and improve collaboration. To this end, a deep understanding of business areas and the associated processes is created and internal regulations can be translated more easily into technical requirements.

Domain-driven design

focuses on the needs of the business domain
makes challenging domains easier to understand
presents domain knowledge in a structured way

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Communicate error-free: Domain-driven design has many advantages

Domain-driven design defines a language specifically tailored to the domain, through which key terms and their relationships to each other are clearly defined. But the architecture approach has other convincing advantages to offer as well

Targeted focus

With DDD, technical and business goals can be better aligned. Companies are then able to provide better value to customers.

Clear business value

DDD emphasises the importance of business and encourages companies to focus on creating real business value with their software.

Better communication

DDD promotes consistent understanding and vocabulary, reducing misunderstandings and increasing clarity of project requirements.

Flexible software designs

DDD promotes a common understanding and vocabulary, reducing misunderstandings and increasing clarity of project requirements.

Time-to-market

DDD enables rapid development processes of software solutions by focusing on the most important elements of the system.

Simple maintenance

The complexity of software systems is reduced by clearly separating concerns - this also facilitates future extensions.

Our services in the area of Domain-driven Design

Domain-driven design can be used to create robust architectures in software development. Dividing the system into independent components also creates greater flexibility and easier ways to maintain the components. As long-standing software architects, we find the best solution together.

Requirements analysis

In an in-depth analysis, we find out what our clients’ business areas look like and what the requirements are for the domain.

Architecture design

If, for example, events are used within the DDD, we define the appropriate commands, domain events and aggregate states.

Implementation

Our experienced domain experts ensure that concepts are smoothly transferred into the application and business systems are optimally represented.

Frequently asked questions

How does domain-driven design fit into business?

Domain-driven design is a specific design pattern that is suitable for companies with complex business units and business systems, for example. To find out if DDD is the right choice and fits your requirements, Acosom is available to advise you with deep expertise in developing high-performance software architectures.

In domain-driven design, how is the domain modelled?

An important part of Domain-driven Design is modelling the domain, i.e. the business area in which a company operates. In order for the modelling of the domain to be successful, it is necessary to analyse which other concepts can be used and combined in addition to DDD.

How is communication used in Domain-driven Design?

An important point in Domain-driven Design is to work closely with experts to improve the understanding of the domain and to ensure that the system meets the requirements of the domain. Developing a common language is therefore useful.

What are the different levels in domain-driven design?

Domain-driven design consists of three layers: the data model, the ubiquitous language and the teams. The Ubiquitous Language is bounded by the Bounded Context. The data models contain data on the domain objects, which contain different technical aspects. The Ubiquitous Language combines the terms used by the domain experts and according to which the software should be built. Each bounded context is managed by exactly one team. One team, however, can take on several Bounded Contexts.