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What does it mean for an Aggregate to enforce "transactional consistency" as its boundary, and what does DDD generally recommend about referencing across Aggregate boundaries?
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What does it mean for an Aggregate to enforce "transactional consistency" as its boundary, and what does DDD generally recommend about referencing across Aggregate boundaries?
What is the general relationship between DDD's emphasis on modeling the domain explicitly and the broader software engineering principle of avoiding an "anemic domain model"?
What is a "Domain Service" in DDD, and when is it used instead of putting logic directly on an Entity or Value Object?
What is the general distinction between "Strategic Design" and "Tactical Design" as the two broad halves of DDD's toolkit?
What is the purpose of a "Specification" pattern sometimes used alongside DDD, e.g. `IsEligibleForDiscountSpecification`?
What is an "Aggregate" in DDD, and what problem does it solve?
What is "Ubiquitous Language" in DDD, and why is it emphasized so strongly?
What does a "Context Map" document/represent in DDD's strategic design toolkit?
What is a "Factory" in DDD's tactical patterns, and when is one typically used instead of a plain constructor?
What is the relationship between DDD and microservices architecture — does DDD require using microservices?
What is a reasonable summary of WHY DDD emphasizes deep collaboration between developers and domain experts throughout the modeling process, rather than developers gathering requirements once upfront and then modeling independently?
What is a "Repository" in DDD, and how does it relate to persistence?