Part 3: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Boundaries in a Modular Monolith
Part 3: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Boundaries in a Modular Monolith The biggest reason engineering teams fear the Monolith architecture is due to terrible past experiences with “Spaghetti Monoliths” or the “Big Ball of Mud” — where the code for the Billing function calls directly into the database of the Cart function, creating an inextricable web of cross-dependencies. To leverage the performance advantages of a Monolith while still achieving independent development velocity like Microservices, we must build a Modular Monolith. The key to this architecture is strictly applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and establishing hard “borders” right within the code. ...