Designing Bounded Contexts

Strategic Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an architecture approach that aligns systems, data, and teams around the true structure of the business. Getting started with identifying bounded contexts—the core building blocks of Strategic DDD—has long been a challenging mix of art and science.

In this hands-on session, you’ll learn a practical, repeatable method for introducing Strategic DDD starting with a single business process. Using collaborative event storming, you’ll visualize the flow of the conference registration journey, identify natural bounded contexts, and map the messages that flow between them.

You’ll see how starting with this approach is a natural input to event-driven architectures and CQRS patterns while also creating a common language between Business and IT to inform strategic decisions.

About Ryan Shriver

Ryan Shriver is the Chief Technology Officer of Commonwealth Savers, a member-focused financial services organization based in Richmond, Virginia. At Commonwealth Savers, he leads the technology teams and focuses on building secure, resilient platforms that support long-term member value and operational excellence.

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