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title: "What is Domain-Driven Design (DDD)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-domain-driven-design-ddd--xoeludfvi
source_url: https://verraes.net/2021/09/what-is-domain-driven-design-ddd
type: article
source: "Mathias Verraes"
published: 2026-06-17T11:25:36.830Z
updated: 2026-06-17T11:29:39.544Z
tags: ["general-programming", "architecture", "domain-driven-design"]
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# What is Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

**[Mathias Verraes](https://daily.dev/sources/verraes)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a software design discipline built around six core principles: developing a shared understanding of the domain guided by domain experts, formalizing that understanding into a Ubiquitous Language, expressing it in shared models, embracing essential complexity, separating complex domains into Bounded Contexts, and continuously refactoring models as understanding evolves. DDD is non-prescriptive and spans from micro-level code patterns to large-scale system reasoning, applied pragmatically where it has the most impact.

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