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Good blend of architectural concepts. Refactoring rules the day!

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* Eric eloquently describes the software development environment. I wholly concur with his take that software should be "supple" and it's organic/evolutionary nature should allow for refactoring to facilitate the refinement of a software product. * I wish more companies adopted this philosophy, instead of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it approach". I thoroughly agree with the refactoring approach as it leads to other breakthroughs and the simplification pays of dividends in the end in the maintenance cycle of a project. * This book is complemented well by Martin Fowler Refactoring and Analysis Patterns books. * If your are into Agile, Test Driven Development or Extreme Programming you will find this book gives you more "bang for your buck". * There is a good blend of architectural concepts. I particularly found his discussion on the aggregate and specification patterns most enlightening and will be able to use them in future projects. * I'd love to work with Eric on a project some day. This would be my idea of Nirvana! :)

Great concept, poorly written

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I read this book 3 years ago, and DDD has been my preferred design concept ever since. However, I have to agree that this book uses a highly sophisticated language, which is very difficult to read for a non-native English person. Also the book is way to long. I wrote an internal summery, which is about 10 A4 pages, and it contains all key concepts about DDD. This book should have been no more that 200 pages. The thing is that DDD is actually a very easy concept, but this book makes it overly complicated, and the concepts drowns in unnecessary details. Also the book lacks examples. There is almost no code. A sample solution, would make a big difference. Today there is a few online resumes on the Internet, which is much better that the book. 5 starts for the concept DDD. 3 stars for this book.

A must have for developers

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What can i say...this is a fantastic book. It's about getting back to basics and understanding what your trying to build and sharing a common language. The patterns described in the book are very helpful and i have already started to implement some of the recommendations. Buy this book..it's worth it. If your worried about it being a length read, you can go to the domain driven design site and they have a concise version of the patterns to read. But I highly recommend that you get the book and read it from cover to cover.

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If your doing, or thinking of doing DDD, then you should certainly read this book. The writing style is excellent, the ideas are interesting, the persentation is superb and (most importantly) good examples are provided along the way.

The best software design book I own.

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I dont think I could possibly disagree with the previous review any more. This is, IMO, the best software design book I have ever read. It is certainably the one that has had the greatest effect on my software design. The book is written superbly. Eric breaks down various parts of the domain into categories and describes what they are, their benefits and relation to the whole picture in a way that just makes sense. I have used the techniques and they simplify the design and make it possible to go straight to a domain expert and take software instead of having to talk 2 seperate languages. I dont find the book hard to read at all, and im not overly educated. If you want an example of hard to read, GangOfFour; a fantastic book but not easy reading. This book is written well, full of experience and well worth a read. 100% recommended.