Twin Cities Software Symposium - No Fluff Just Stuff

Twin Cities Software Symposium

October 20 - 21, 2023

DDD and Microservices

Saturday - Oct 21 1:00 PM CDT - WASHINGTON

We live in a world of microservices. Yet, what is a microservice? What defines the boundaries of a microservice? How do we define the relationships between microservices? Thankfully domain-driven design gives us the concepts and practices to better design and decompose our services.

In this session we will consider many of the concepts of DDD — How bounded contexts use Ubiquitous language to model the domain, how context maps can be used to establish the interconnections between services as well aggregates and domains events, all of which will service us well as we go about creating our microservices.

We will also discuss the “tactical” patterns of DDD — We will see how we can “embed” the ubiquitous language in code, and the architectural influences of DDD.

This workshop will have you thinking about how to think in DDD using DDD concepts and ideas. Using polls, and mini-exercises we attempt to better cement the ideas of DDD so we can start applying them at work.

Raju Gandhi

Raju Gandhi

Founder, DefMacro Software

About Raju Gandhi

Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.

He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.

He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).

Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.