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Domain-Driven Refactoring

You're reading from   Domain-Driven Refactoring A hands-on DDD guide to transforming monoliths into modular systems and microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835889107
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Colla Alessandro Colla
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Why Use Domain-Driven Design to Tackle Complexity?
2. Evolution of Domain-Driven Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Complexity: Problem and Solution Space 4. Strategic Patterns 5. Tactical Patterns 6. Part 2: Refactoring Legacy Systems
7. Introducing Refactoring Principles 8. Transitioning from Chaos 9. Integrating Events with CQRS 10. Refactoring the Database 11. DDD Patterns for Continuous Integration and Continuous Refactoring 12. Part 3: Moving from Monolith to Microservices
13. When and Why You Should Transition to a Microservices Architecture 14. Dealing with Events and Their Evolution 15. Orchestrating Complexity: Advanced Approaches to Business Processes 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Understanding before acting

If you take a look at the 01-monolith_legacy branch of our ERP example, you’ll notice that the code is somewhat messy. While the project names are clear, it’s difficult to identify any architectural pattern, such as Onion Architecture, Clean Architecture, or even Hexagonal Architecture.

Dig deeper into the code. If you open the program.cs file in the BrewUp.Rest project, you will see that every service and endpoint is registered in this file. This means that whenever you need to add, remove, or modify a service or endpoint, you have to update the program.cs file, the entry point of your application. This approach is far from ideal!

The SalesOrderService and WarehousesService files, located in the Services folder, serve as the façade of the underlying infrastructure. Placing these files directly in the BrewUp.Rest project creates a tight coupling with the underlying system. As a result, if you ever need to move one of these services...

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