Eric Evans (1) (1962–)

See elsewhere for my more detailed summary.

The short summary is that Domain-Driven Design is a great book for any programmer or software designer who wants to deepen their ability to model application domains. Evans describes why domain modelling is important and sets out a number of patterns for achieving better models. He has a good grasp of real world complexities and, because of that, insists that a model must be implementable if it is to be successful. Any overlap between the model and the implementation should be identical or the model will become obsolete.

Evans provides a number of patterns to help determine the best domain model for an application. These patterns range from the abstract to the concrete, from the brilliant to the pedantic. Overall, I highly enjoyed the book although, at just over 500 pages, I am glad that I had a reading group to work through it with.
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For some reason this book is greatly beloved in programming circles. I can't tell if that's because the people doing the beloving are die-hard Java Enterprise programmers, or if I'm just missing something here. But I think it's the former.

Domain-Driven Design is an excessively dry, boring book whose main thesis seems to be "make sure everybody agrees on what terminology is being used." What could have been this one sentence is instead 650 pages, chocked full of UML diagrams and insipid discussions about shipping containers. And that's saying something, coming from a guy who reads excessively dry boring math and engineering books on the regular.

If I had to be charitable, I would say that this book is independently groping towards functional programming without knowing it, and trying to shoehorn the ideas into an OOP-mindset. There is a lot of potential here for things to like, but it ultimately falls short. If you've only ever coded in Java, or frequently sketch UML diagrams, this might be the book for you. And if so, may god have mercy on your soul.… (meer)