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Domain-Driven Design in PHP

By : Keyvan Akbary, Carlos Buenosvinos, Christian Soronellas
Book Image

Domain-Driven Design in PHP

By: Keyvan Akbary, Carlos Buenosvinos, Christian Soronellas

Overview of this book

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) has arrived in the PHP community, but for all the talk, there is very little real code. Without being in a training session and with no PHP real examples, learning DDD can be challenging. This book changes all that. It details how to implement tactical DDD patterns and gives full examples of topics such as integrating Bounded Contexts with REST, and DDD messaging strategies. In this book, the authors show you, with tons of details and examples, how to properly design Entities, Value Objects, Services, Domain Events, Aggregates, Factories, Repositories, Services, and Application Services with PHP. They show how to apply Hexagonal Architecture within your application whether you use an open source framework or your own.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
14
Bibliography
15
The End

A Bit of History


Around the beginning of the 21st century, companies such as Amazon and Google grew massively. In order to consolidate their growth, they used clustering techniques: not only did they have better servers, but they also relied on many more of them working together.

In a scenario such as this, deciding how to store your data is key. If you take an Entity and spread its information throughout multiple servers, in multiple nodes of a cluster, the effort needed to control transactions is high. The same thing applies if you want to fetch an Entity. So if you can design your Entity in a way that is persisted in the node of a cluster, it makes things much easier. That's one of the reasons why Aggregate Design is so important.

If you want to know more about the history of Aggregate Design outside of Domain-Driven Design, take a look at NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence.