Understanding the business landscape
Identifying the right boundaries between components is a challenging task. It is not something that can be solved purely from a technical perspective. In these situations, you have to adopt the mindset of a software architect, which means understanding the broader business drivers and applying all the necessary trade-offs, not just focusing on the technical details. DDD offers valuable patterns to help identify these boundaries, but its true power lies in understanding the problem space. DDD emphasizes collaboration with customers and stakeholders, ensuring that your solutions are aligned with the business’s needs, not just its technical requirements.
Figure 6.1 shows the boundaries of the contexts discovered in Chapter 3, Strategic Patterns:
Figure 6.1 – Well-defined bounded contexts
The idea is to replicate in your code base the contexts that you discovered in your exploration phase.
To avoid common pitfalls...
