Domain-Driven Design Distilled
by Vaughn Vernon · first published 2016
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A condensed introduction to domain-driven design, running about 200 pages compared with the much longer full DDD book. It serves as a starting point for grasping the core ideas.
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"Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software" https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/domain-driven-design-ta... There's also "Domain Driven Design, Distilled" providing a comprehensive summary. https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Vernon-D...
on “Hexagonal Architecture and Domain Driven Design” ↗How fast can you read? - Clean Code - Code Complete 2 - The Pragmatic Programmer - Professional PHP - Effective Java - Domain Driven Design Distilled
on “Ask HN: What are the best programming books you could read in a weekend?” ↗Contexts are loosely (maybe a little more than loosely) based on the Bounded Context concept in Domain Driven Design. As a good introduction, I would recommend reading Domain-Driven Design Distilled by Vaughn Vernon. It's sort of like the Cole's Notes version of the full Domain Driven Design which is a monster of a book.
on “10 years-ish of Elixir” ↗…match (or near-match) and reverse-engineered the letter spacing, line height, heading font sizes, etc. Its content was great too, but I was glad to have read Vaughn Vernon's DDDD first. Vaughn Vernon, Domain-Driven Design Distilled. This book followed up Shore's work in our book club at work. Everybody on the team really liked what they read, but nobody felt like they had actionable insights. So the engineers went on to read Vernon's…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗Domain Driven Design Distilled is the best place to start. It compresses the topic down into only 200 odd pages rather than the other giant books on the subject. I'm reading it at the moment and it's starting to click far more than…
on “Data-Oriented Architecture” ↗…the things that your users (ought to) expect to be easy but that are inscrutably difficult to achieve with your existing codebase. Find high quality open source projects and study them. Read books (eg. Domain driven design [distilled]). Stay somewhere long enough to feel the impact of your own bad design decisions. Take some time occasionally to pause and reflect on what isn't working and could have been done better in hindsight.…
on “On the nature of computing science (1984)” ↗…don't think these are exclusive. Almost a year ago, I wrote a blog post about this [0]. I spent the time since then both learning better software design and learning to vibe code. I've worked through Domain-Driven Design Distilled, Domain-Driven Design, Implementing Domain-Driven Design, Design Patterns, The Art of Agile Software Development, 2nd Edition, Clean Architecture, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and Tidy First?. I'm…
on “Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding” ↗> Read books (eg. Domain driven design [distilled]). OTOH, Vernon's DDDD book comes with caveats: https://dev.to/yakovlev_alexey/do-not-read-ddd-distilled-by-...
on “On the nature of computing science (1984)” ↗…Architecture — Robert C. Martin 3. Clean Code — Robert C. Martin 4. Code Complete — Steve McConnell 5. Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann 6. Domain-Driven Design — Eric Evans 7. Domain-Driven Design Distilled — Vaughn Vernon 8. Implementing Domain-Driven Design — Vaughn Vernon 9. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture — Martin Fowler 10. Refactoring — Martin Fowler 11. Release It! — Michael T.…
…Architecture — Robert C. Martin 3. Clean Code — Robert C. Martin 4. Code Complete — Steve McConnell 5. Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann 6. Domain-Driven Design — Eric Evans 7. Domain-Driven Design Distilled — Vaughn Vernon 8. Implementing Domain-Driven Design — Vaughn Vernon 9. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture — Martin Fowler 10. Refactoring — Martin Fowler 11. Release It! — Michael T.…
…Fundamentals" & "Modern Software Architecture: Domain Models, CQRS, and Event Sourcing". You're probably familiar already with the books "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software" & "Domain-Driven Design Distilled".
on “Benefits of Domain-Driven Design in Nuxt Apps” ↗