Comment by smt88
6 years ago
You seem to be implying that a dev who doesn't understand enterprise DDD is unqualified.
That's not like a carpenter who can't use a hammer. It's like a carpenter who asks for a sketch of a project and instead receives a phone-book sized list of vague instructions that no one can agree on.
> You seem to be implying that a dev who doesn't understand enterprise DDD is unqualified.
I imply that a dev who doesn't understand DDD in a enterprise environment, is unqualified for working with DDD in an enterprise environment.
As much as a carpenter is unqualified to be a carpenter if he doesn't know how to handle a hammer and nails.
And I appreciate all the downvotes coming in.
I don't think people agree with your analogy. To me your analogy is too simple. I have 6 years of java development experience and a masters in informatics. I have yet to work with enterprise DDD. There were no classes at university that taught it.
In most of my projects I have had to learn a lot of new stuff, it's a blessing if someone on the team knows how to use it already. However I have found that on most projects we've struggled to hire people with substantial experience with the tech stack and methodology that the customer had chosen.
We still wouldn't find an entire team that had experience with everything we needed even if we paid them ten fold the amount of every other company.
On the other hand I reckon every carpenter learns to use a hammer and nails in school.
> There were no classes at university that taught it.
So? You don't leave university and expect to be "done", right? You learn, learn, and learn - your whole software dev life. Even better, your whole life.
And no - nobody teaches you how to professionally handle a hammer in school. Now you are simplifying here. In school, they show you a hammer and nails. That's it. As much as they show you a compiler, a programming language and a basic architecture in university.
There are a ton of different hammers and nails out there, each with their own special attributes. You have an engineer's hammer, a tiling hammer, a rubber hammer, a roofing hammer, a splitting maul, a sledgehammer and so on... And I won't start talking about nails.
It's up to you to gain knowledge when to use what, and how to use it. That doesn't mean it's useless per se. Or overly complicated. It might just no "be your thing", which is fine.
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My take is that DDD is actually a convinient intuitive way to work with, if it is not, probably something needs to be discussed and refactor ed