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Eric Evans
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Eric Evans is the company blog at domainlanguage.com, writing about programming, ai and business. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Eric Evans' site as the source of Domain-Driven Design concepts such as bounded contexts and aggregates. One points to his later article on context mapping as a follow-up to an AI-output post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Read Eric’s Blog … Articles » About Domain Language We are a small consultancy focused on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and led by Eric Evans, who wrote the first book on DDD. Our current focus is on helping organizations thoughtfully integrate AI technologies like LLMs into domain-rich systems while p
Most-linked posts?
- Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-04
What Hacker News says?
I think you bring up a lot of good points, though I'm a bit more optimistic about the trend. >2) ".... there's a reason people avoid crossing the network, and the microservice approach essentially comes close to crossing the network every single time you cross module boundaries." We've been trying as an industry to cross the network efficiently for decades. Ultimately it comes down to team structure. Microservices p…
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on “Microservices – Not a free lunch”Submitted Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names as a story · 292 points
HN discussionI suppose you disagree with Eric Evans method of Domain Driven Design (DDD - http://domainlanguage.com/ ) Don't people who practice DDD, including Martin Fowler, commonly talk about the benefits of some of it's concepts, while modeling the Domain using Aggregrate Roots, Bounded Contexts, etc?
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on “Anthropomorphism Gone Wrong: OOP”Submitted Domain Driven Design Reference (2015) [pdf] as a story · 84 points
HN discussionYeah - the author seems oblivious to that option. But to be fair - this post is more about the more basic step of choosing the schema - he argues that it is still a task for a human. In his next post https://www.domainlanguage.com/articles/context-mapping-an-a... applying some output schemas would be more useful. By they way you don' need to use library to have output schemas: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides…
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on “How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025)”Submitted Domain Driven Design When Surrounded by Legacy Development (2013) [pdf] as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good Design Is Imperfect Design Part 1: Honest Names as a story · 1 points
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