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A collection of resources for learning DDD. All are free to access.
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# Free Domain-Driven Design Learning Resources



This repository contains a collection of blog posts, videos and other resources for learning Domain-Driven Design. All resources are free to access. 



> Please raise an issue if there is a resource you think should be added to this collection.



*Table of Contents*

1. [DDD Introductions & Fundamentals](#ddd-introductions-and-fundamentals)

2. [Collaborative Modelling](#collaborative-modelling)

3. [Strategic Design](#strategic-design)

4. [Tactical DDD / Domain-as-code](#tactical-ddd--domain-as-code)

5. [Case Studies](#case-studies)

6. [DDD Blogs](#ddd-blogs)



## DDD Introductions and Fundamentals



These resources are typically aimed at beginners providing an overview of DDD as a whole and how the individual concepts fit together.



### EBooks



- [Domain-Driven Design Reference](https://domainlanguage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DDD_Reference_2015-03.pdf), Eric Evans



- [The Anatomy of Domain-Driven Design](https://leanpub.com/theanatomyofdomain-drivendesign), Scott Millett and Samuel Knight



- [DDD: The First 15 Years](https://leanpub.com/ddd_first_15_years), Various Authors



- [Domain-Driven Design Quickly](https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly/), Abel Avram and Floyd Marinescu



### Written Articles



- [Domain-Driven Design](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainDrivenDesign.html), Martin Fowler



- [Domain-driven design needn't be hard. Here's how to start](https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/domain-driven-design-neednt-be-hard-heres-how-start), Andrew Hamel-law



- [DDD Starter Modelling Process](https://github.com/ddd-crew/ddd-starter-modelling-process)



### Videos



- [What is DDD?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMuiVlnGqjk), Eric Evans



- [Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnUFEg68ESM), Eric Evans



- [Getting to DDD: Pragmatic or Principled?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AAzySH3A88), Julie Lerman



### Other Resources



- [DDD from Product people's perspective](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cIMdatvI2o3OjGnqnjQX6p6VQWfQAL5Z/view), Zsofia Herendi



- [Virtual DDD Meetup Group](https://virtualddd.com/)



- [DDD-CQRS-ES Discord Server](https://github.com/ddd-cqrs-es/community) is a very active community to ask questions about anything relating to DDD, and get answers from practitioners in different contexts



## Collaborative Modelling



These resources teach and show how software development practitioners and domain experts can work together to model business domains.



### Written Articles



- [Event Storming](https://openpracticelibrary.com/practice/event-storming/), Open Practice Library



- [Domain Storytelling](https://openpracticelibrary.com/practice/domain-storytelling/), Open Practice Library



### Videos



- [100,000 Orange Stickies Later](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGm62ra_mQ8&feature=youtu.be), Alberto Brandolini



### Other Resources



- [Visual Collaboration Tools](https://leanpub.com/visualcollaborationtools), Kenny Baas-Schwegler & João Roasa



- [Awesome EventStorming](https://github.com/mariuszgil/awesome-eventstorming), Mariusz Gil



## Strategic Design



These resources teach how to decompose a large domain into sub-domains and represent them as high-level architectural components called Bounded Contexts.



### Written Articles



- [Bounded Context](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BoundedContext.html), Martin Fowler



- [Tackling business complexity with strategic domain-driven design](https://inside.getyourguide.com/blog/2019/11/18/tackling-business-complexity-with-strategic-domain-driven-design), Leandro Lages 



### Videos



- [Bounded Contexts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJ2Vyk1HA0), Cyrille Martraire



- [Practical DDD: Bounded Contexts + Events](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr6jAwOunGM), Indu Alagarsamy



- [Emergent Boundaries](https://verraes.net/2017/04/emergent-boundaries/), Matthias Verraes



- [Socio-technical architecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ft39wz6fHM), Ora Egozi Barzilai and Evelyn van Kelle



- [All Our Aggregates Are Wrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkzvQSuYd5I), Mauro Servienti



### Other Resources



- [Aligning organization and architecture with strategic DDD](https://speakerdeck.com/mploed/aligning-organization-and-architecture-with-strategic-ddd), Michael Plöd



- [Strategic Domain-Driven Design Kata: Delivericious](https://medium.com/nick-tune-tech-strategy-blog/strategic-domain-driven-design-kata-delivericious-b114ca77163), Nick Tune



## Tactical DDD / Domain-as-code



These resources show how to design software which is closely aligned to the business domain so that it is easier to understand and change.



### Ebooks



- [Architecture Patterns with Python](http://www.cosmicpython.com), Harry Percival & Bob Gregory



### Written Articles



- [Aggregates & Entities in Domain-Driven Design](http://thepaulrayner.com/blog/aggregates-and-entities-in-domain-driven-design/), Paul Rayner



- [Strengthening your domain: a primer](https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2010/02/04/strengthening-your-domain-a-primer/), Jimmy Bogard



### Videos



- [Domain Modeling Made Functional](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pSH8kElmM4), Scott Wlaschin



- [Design in the small](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLW4puXHvc), Yves Reynhout



- [Refactoring for DDD Without Microservicing Your Monolith](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2mL-6CcYBw), Harry Brumleve



### Other Resources



- [DDD By Examples](https://github.com/ddd-by-examples/library), Jakub Pilimon and Bartłomiej Słota



## Case Studies



- [OOps I DDD it again and again](https://www.slideshare.net/OraEgoziBarzilai/mucon-2019-oops-i-ddd-it-again-and-again), Ora Egozi-Barzilai



- [10 Lessons from a Long Running DDD Project](https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2016/06/13/10-lessons-from-a-long-running-ddd-project-part-1/), Jimmy Bogard



## DDD Blogs



- [Alberto Brandolini](https://ziobrando.blogspot.it/)



- [DDD Weekly](http://dddweekly.com/)



- [Kenny Baas-Schwegler](https://baasie.com/)



- [Paul Rayner](http://thepaulrayner.com/)



- [Udi Dahan](http://udidahan.com/category/ddd/)



- [Vladik Khononov](https://vladikk.com/)



- [Zsofia Herendi](https://www.zherendi.com/blog)



## Contributions and Inspiration



In addition to the content creators of each of the resources, thanks also goes to the following people:



- [Krzysztof Góralski](https://twitter.com/k_goralski)



- [Nick Chamberlain](https://twitter.com/heynickc)



We also thank to all [existing and future contributors](https://github.com/ddd-crew/free-ddd-learning-resources/graphs/contributors)