Stop Pretending To Do Domain-Driven Design
It doesn’t matter how many entities, aggregates, factories, services, and repositories you have. That’s not domain-driven design.
There’s a trend by software developers to approach domain-driven design as a collection of useful programming/coding patterns and abstractions:
I see this idea popularized on all the social platforms by content creator X software developer with 3 years of experience who is an expert on building distributed microservices using domain-driven design. They can tell you all about creating entities, aggregates, and repositories. And distributed microservices too – as a cherry on the top.
The courses on popular learning platforms are the same. Here’s part of a description from a popular learning platform’s course on DDD:
Vaughn also writes about a fictitious scenario of developers focused on these tactical tools – calling it “DDD-Lite“:
