Andreea's Reviews > Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

While reading this book I complained a lot about the author repeating the same ideas supported by different examples. However, I really enjoyed reading it and I feel I gained a lot of knowledge about designing software applications. Of course, this knowledge is purely theoretical, but we all have to start somewhere.

One thing I really appreciated is that the author doesn’t isolate the design and development part from the human interaction. One has to know the team members’ skills and employ them as efficiently as possible in the software development process. The main idea he tries to promote is knowing your domain and making your code express that domain.

This book does not offer recipes for designing and developing software applications, but provides a series of guidelines that one can follow and/or adapt to a certain project.

I think it’s quite a valuable book to read, although it might arise some developer mixed feelings about the author giving exhaustive examples and explanations in some cases. It is always a pleasure to read a book that has behind it a lot of experience in software development and also in applying domain driven design principles throughout one’s work.