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PHP Microservices

You're reading from   PHP Microservices Transit from monolithic architectures to highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125377
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Carlos Pérez Sánchez Carlos Pérez Sánchez
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Pablo Solar Vilariño Pablo Solar Vilariño
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What are Microservices? FREE CHAPTER 2. Development Environment 3. Application Design 4. Testing and Quality Control 5. Microservices Development 6. Monitoring 7. Security 8. Deployment 9. From Monolithic to Microservices 10. Strategies for Scalability 11. Best Practices and Conventions 12. Cloud and DevOps

Domain-driven design


Domain-driven design (DDD from here on) is an approach for the development when it has complex needs. This concept is not new; it was created by Eric Evans in his book with the same title in 2004, but now it is mainstream as microservices are popular among developers and very common in huge projects.

This is happening as there is great compatibility between the microservices concepts (regarding the software architecture, dividing every functionality into services) and DDD concepts (about the bounded contexts).

Before knowing where and how we can use DDD in our microservices project, it is necessary to understand what DDD is and how it works, so let me introduce you to the main concepts as a summary of this approach.

How domain-driven design works

Evans introduced some concepts that are necessary to understand to learn how domain-driven design works:

  • Context:This is the setting in which a word or statement appears that determines its meaning.

  • Domain: This is a sphere of...

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