Название: Domain-Driven Platform Engineering: How to Build Context-Aware, Scalable, and Self-Service Platforms for the Enterprise
Автор: Ajay Chankramath, Eamonn Ryan
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2026
Страниц: 260
Язык: английский
Формат: True PDF, True EPUB
Размер: 10.7 MB

Modern enterprises face growing friction between platform teams and product teams. Domain-Driven Platform Engineering offers a principled approach to align technical systems with business value. This book addresses this market gap with a deep, structured methodology supported by examples and real-life case studies.

The primary audience for this book includes software developers who are building domain-specific products. " Domain” refers to client or industry-specific capability products such as payments platforms, claims processing in insurance, revenue cycle management in healthcare, fulfillment orchestration in retail, or content lifecycle management in media, to name a few.

The Domain-Driven Platform Engineering (DDPE) market is expanding rapidly as organizations confront the limits of generic platforms and seek to scale differentiated, domain-specific capabilities. Gartner predicts that 80% of software engineering organizations will have platform teams by 2026, while platform engineering is now a top-10 trend in enterprise IT modernization initiatives.

Domain-driven design (DDD) is a software development approach that focuses on creating software that reflects real-world business domains. For example, instead of focusing on “how the database works,” DDD focuses on “how the business works.” DDD places primary focus on the core domain and its logic rather than on technical implementation details. Emphasizing the collaboration between domain expertise and technology, a shared, elevated understanding of the problem at hand and the eventual solutions is the key to the success of DDD. It aims to address software complexity by closely aligning code and business concepts. To better understand DDD, we now examine the strategic and tactical design patterns that comprise this approach.

This book provides timely, structured guidance as developers and engineering leaders increasingly look to merge domain expertise with platform thinking. Readers will engage with this book conceptually and practically, using it initially to shape mental models and alignment strategies between domains and platforms. Then, they will revisit specific chapters for maturity models, frameworks, and industry case studies as they build and evolve their domain-aligned platforms.

You will:

Adopt domain-driven practices to align platform engineering with business context and scale effectively.
Apply practitioner playbooks with real-world case studies, blueprints, and hands-on implementation guidance.
Implement governance and security patterns that ensure reliability, compliance, and resilience in enterprise platforms.

This book is for:
Enterprise Architects, Technology Leaders, DevOps and Cloud Engineers.