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Domain-Driven Design with Golang

By : Matthew Boyle
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Book Image

Domain-Driven Design with Golang

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By: Matthew Boyle

Overview of this book

Domain-driven design (DDD) is one of the most sought-after skills in the industry. This book provides you with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples that will see you introducing DDD in your Go projects in no time. Domain-Driven Design with Golang starts by helping you gain a basic understanding of DDD, and then covers all the important patterns, such as bounded context, ubiquitous language, and aggregates. The latter half of the book deals with the real-world implementation of DDD patterns and teaches you how to build two systems while applying DDD principles, which will be a valuable addition to your portfolio. Finally, you’ll find out how to build a microservice, along with learning how DDD-based microservices can be part of a greater distributed system. Although the focus of this book is Golang, by the end of this book you’ll be able to confidently use DDD patterns outside of Go and apply them to other languages and even distributed systems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction to Domain-Driven Design
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Part 2: Real -World Domain-Driven Design with Golang

Getting started with our CoffeeCo system

Now that we understand what our business does, let’s begin to build a domain-driven system to satisfy all the requirements.

Let’s start by initializing a new Golang project:

  1. We will create a new project called coffeeco in our Dev folder using GoLand; you can use whichever IDE you like:

Figure 5.2 – Project creation screen in GoLand

  1. Next, we will create an internal folder with a loyalty folder inside, as follows:

Figure 5.3 – Our project structure so far

The internal folder is a special folder in Golang. Anything within the internal directory cannot be imported by other projects. This is a great fit for DDD as we do not want our domain code to be part of our public API. To automatically enforce this, we will be putting all our domain code inside this internal folder.

  1. Before we can write any code about the loyalty scheme, we need to define...