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Domain Types: How much should you trust AI?

Domain Types: How much should you trust AI?

Well-defined boundaries help AI understand your system. Domain Types answer a different question: how much should you trust AI? Learn where AI can safely accelerate development and where engineering judgment remains essential.

The Anatomy of the Party Archetype

The Anatomy of the Party Archetype

The Party archetype is the foundation for modeling business participants. Discover how separating identity, roles, and relationships creates a flexible domain model that grows with changing business needs.

Domain Types: Ownership is not random

Domain Types: Ownership is not random

Domain types influence much more than architecture and sourcing decisions. They can also help you assign ownership more effectively, balance team growth, and reduce the risk of placing the wrong people in the most critical parts of your system.

Beyond DDD Building Blocks: Why You Need Archetypes

Beyond DDD Building Blocks: Why You Need Archetypes

Aggregates, Entities, and Value Objects help you implement business logic. Archetypes help you understand the business itself. Discover why DDD building blocks are only part of the modeling puzzle.

The rewarded hero and the architect who never pays the price

The rewarded hero and the architect who never pays the price

Why do so many systems become legacy despite being built by talented engineers and architects? The answer may have less to do with competence and more to do with feedback loops that are too long to teach the right lessons.

When trade-offs, debt and legacy collide

When trade-offs, debt and legacy collide

Every architectural decision has a cost. Some costs are accepted, some are postponed, and some appear because evolution never happened. Understanding these differences can change how you assess and improve a system.

Domain Types: What if you build nothing?

Domain Types: What if you build nothing?

Every architectural decision comes with a cost. Sometimes the most pragmatic solution is not another service, application, or vendor, but a simple manual process.