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"01a08219-faa8-70ac-92e5-85dbe385fbd1", "title": "Why Domain-Driven Design Matters", "url": "https://verraes.net/2014/05/why-domain-driven-design-matters/", "published_at": "2014-05-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08219-faa8-70ac-92e5-85dbe43067b2", "title": "A Functional Foundation for CQRS/ES", "url": "https://verraes.net/2014/05/functional-foundation-for-cqrs-event-sourcing/", "published_at": "2014-05-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08219-faa8-70ac-92e5-85dbe480f0d0", "title": "Final Classes: Open for Extension, Closed for Inheritance", "url": "https://verraes.net/2014/05/final-classes-in-php/", "published_at": "2014-05-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08219-faa8-70ac-92e5-85dbe4c0abcc", "title": "Small Uncontrolled Experiments", "url": "https://verraes.net/2014/03/small-controlled-experiments/", "published_at": "2014-03-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08219-faa8-70ac-92e5-85dbe560faa7", "title": "Practical Event Sourcing", "url": 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2026

Loosely Coupled: Is Software Design Still Relevant?original ↗

28 Jul 2026

Software Design in the Agentic Age: Place Your Bets original ↗

2 Jul 2026

2025

No, Your Domains and Bounded Contexts Don’t Map 1 on 1 original ↗

28 Aug 2025

Two Hard Problems with Distributed Systems original ↗

14 Aug 2025

Submitting talks to a tech conference Call for Papers original ↗

10 Jun 2025

2024

How to Fix a Bug: Tests, Hypotheses, Timeboxes original ↗

10 Mar 2024

Critical Software Redesign: Creating the Environment for Large Scale Change original ↗

8 Jan 2024

2023

Surfacing Worldviews in Design original ↗

3 Jul 2023

EventSourcing Testing Patterns original ↗

28 May 2023

From Music to Languages and Models (DevJourney Podcast)original ↗

16 May 2023

Parser Combinators (Full Stack Europe)original ↗

20 Apr 2023

Bounded Contexts: Manage the Understandability of Your Systems (DDD Australia)original ↗

29 Mar 2023

Software Design for Startups and Scaleups original ↗

15 Feb 2023

Critically Engaging With Models (DDD Europe Keynote)original ↗

24 Jan 2023

Design and Reality (Leanpub Podcast)original ↗

11 Jan 2023

2022

Critically Engaging With Models original ↗

15 Sept 2022

Conway’s Law Doesn’t Apply to Rigid Designs original ↗

23 May 2022

Domain-Driven Design Applied original ↗

24 Mar 2022

Eventsourcing Patterns: Multi-temporal Events original ↗

22 Mar 2022

Loss Aversion Heuristics original ↗

25 Feb 2022

Design & Reality (VirtualDDD presentation)original ↗

25 Feb 2022

2021

Models and Metaphors original ↗

20 Dec 2021

Bounded Context Podcast original ↗

30 Sept 2021

What is Domain-Driven Design (DDD)original ↗

22 Sept 2021

Design and Reality original ↗

13 Sept 2021

Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts original ↗

14 Jun 2021

The “It's Just Like...” Heuristic original ↗

22 May 2021

Simple Models, Scaffolding, Enabling Constraints original ↗

23 Apr 2021

Tensions when Designing Evolvable Bounded Contexts original ↗

9 Apr 2021

The Legacy Mirror Heuristic original ↗

14 Mar 2021

2020

The Wall of Technical Debt original ↗

22 Jan 2020

2019

Eventsourcing: State from Events or Events as State?original ↗

24 Aug 2019

Patterns Are Not Defined by Their Implementation original ↗

2 Jul 2019

Temporal Modelling original ↗

4 Jun 2019

Emergent Contexts through Refinement original ↗

4 Jun 2019

Messaging Patterns: Natural Language Message Names original ↗

2 Jun 2019

Eventsourcing Patterns: Migration Events in a Ghost Context original ↗

1 Jun 2019

Eventsourcing Patterns: Decision Tracking original ↗

29 May 2019

Messaging Patterns: Throttling original ↗

23 May 2019

Messaging Patterns: Ephemeral Events original ↗

23 May 2019

Messaging Patterns: Change Detection Events original ↗

23 May 2019

DDD and Messaging Architectures original ↗

21 May 2019

Eventsourcing Patterns: Crypto-Shredding original ↗

13 May 2019

Eventsourcing Patterns: Forgettable Payloads original ↗

13 May 2019

Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Segregated Event Layers original ↗

11 May 2019

Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Fat Event original ↗

11 May 2019

Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Explicit Public Events original ↗

11 May 2019

Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Passage of Time Event original ↗

10 May 2019

Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Summary Event original ↗

8 May 2019

Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Domain Query original ↗

8 May 2019

Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Completeness Guarantee original ↗

8 May 2019

2018

Design Heuristics original ↗

26 Apr 2018

2017

Emergent Boundaries original ↗

27 Apr 2017

Messages Over Structure original ↗

3 Apr 2017

2016

On Being Explicit original ↗

9 Nov 2016

Designed Stickiness original ↗

24 May 2016

Lightning Talks original ↗

5 May 2016

The Repair/Replace Heuristic for Legacy Software original ↗

26 Apr 2016

Property-based testing original ↗

14 Apr 2016

Code Reviews and Blame Culture original ↗

9 Apr 2016

Type Safety and Money original ↗

29 Feb 2016

2015

Towards Modelling Processes original ↗

22 May 2015

Context Mapping: Life Expectancy original ↗

26 Apr 2015

Event Storming, Storytelling, Visualisations original ↗

14 Mar 2015

Form, Command, and Model Validation original ↗

16 Feb 2015

Messaging Flavours original ↗

9 Jan 2015

Economy of Tests original ↗

5 Jan 2015

2014

How Much Testing is Too Much?original ↗

29 Dec 2014

Let It Crash original ↗

9 Dec 2014

Higher Order Programming original ↗

24 Nov 2014

Modelling Heuristics original ↗

20 Nov 2014

Domain Events original ↗

11 Nov 2014

Object Reorientation original ↗

7 Nov 2014

“Software design is just theory”original ↗

7 Oct 2014

Small Uncontrolled Experiments (revisited)original ↗

3 Oct 2014

Objects as Contracts for Behaviour original ↗

29 Sept 2014

Decoupling the Model from the Framework original ↗

1 Sept 2014

Sterile Estimation original ↗

26 Aug 2014

Resolving Feature Envy in the Domain original ↗

11 Aug 2014

DRY is about Knowledge original ↗

2 Aug 2014

Event Storming: on Fake Domains and Happy Paths original ↗

23 Jul 2014

Managed Technical Debt (revisited)original ↗

27 Jun 2014

Information Overload original ↗

27 Jun 2014

The Cost of Estimation original ↗

17 Jun 2014

When to Use Static Methods original ↗

13 Jun 2014

Named Constructors in PHP original ↗

12 Jun 2014

Why Domain-Driven Design Matters original ↗

21 May 2014

A Functional Foundation for CQRS/ES original ↗

14 May 2014

Final Classes: Open for Extension, Closed for Inheritance original ↗

12 May 2014

Small Uncontrolled Experiments original ↗

22 Mar 2014

Practical Event Sourcing original ↗

18 Mar 2014

Religiously RESTful original ↗

3 Mar 2014

Buzzword-free Bounded Contexts original ↗

13 Feb 2014

Domain-Driven Design: Bounded Contexts, Modelling original ↗

12 Feb 2014

Bandwidth and Context Mapping original ↗

15 Jan 2014

Build for Failure original ↗

5 Jan 2014

The Henry Ford Fallacy original ↗

1 Jan 2014

Domain-Driven Design is Linguistic original ↗

1 Jan 2014

2013

Fighting Bottlenecks with CQRS original ↗

1 Dec 2013

Value Objects and User Interfaces original ↗

15 Nov 2013