Architecture styles
Domain-driven design presents a set of architecture tenets in the form of strategic and tactical design elements. This enables you to decompose large, potentially unwieldy business subdomains into well-factored, independent bounded contexts.
One of the great advantages of DDD is that it does not require the use of any specific architecture. However, the software industry has been using a plethora of architecture styles over the last few years. Let’s look at how DDD can be used in conjunction with a set of popular architecture styles to arrive at better solutions.
Layered architecture
Layered architecture is one of the most common architecture styles, where the solution is typically organized into four broad categories: presentation, application, domain, and persistence. Each of the layers provides a solution to a particular concern it represents, as shown here:
Figure 2.1 – The essence of layered architecture
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