Matthew Boyle, the author of Domain-Driven Design with Golang, sits down with Jon & Mat to talk about (you guessed it!) DDD with Go.

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Featuring:

Matthew Boyle – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's Go Time!
(00:44) - Welcoming Matt to the show
(02:34) - What is domain-driven design?
(09:57) - DDD? FML!
(13:39) - Little DDD wins
(17:57) - DDD scorecards
(22:17) - Identifying DDD code
(25:13) - Sponsor: Changelog++
(26:09) - DDD for monoliths?
(32:56) - DDD overhead
(34:43) - DDD and gRPC
(39:43) - A thought experiment
(47:47) - What about databases?
(57:56) - It's time for Unpopular Opinions!
(58:21) - Matt's unpop
(1:06:55) - Mat's unpop
(1:09:54) - Gotta Go!
(1:10:16) - Outro (Changelog++ bonus!)

Domain-driven design with Go