Domain-Driven Design and CQRS/ES

Beginner

• Domain-Driven Design Distilled: a 136 page introduction that will get you up to speed before you attempt larger books.

• Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals: a Pluralsight course which provides a good introduction to all the basics.

Intermediate

• Domain-Driven Design in Practice: a good intermediate Pluralsight course.

• Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design: we've found this to be the most practical book to start with.

• Implementing Domain-Driven Design: and this is the next book, it's value is in a consistent example application.

Advanced

• Patterns for Building Distributed Systems for The Enterprise: this course provides some great insight to when to use CQRS. The differentiation between Event Sourcing and Event Streaming is of particular note which doesn't get much attention.

• Further Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture: the unpublished follow-up to Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture provides great definitions, descriptions and example of patterns such as Event Sourcing and Event Collaboration.

• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software : the original book that started it all. Domain-Driven Design has evolved since this book was written, but the core philosophy continues.

Extra

• Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka: applying messaging patterns from Enterprise Integration Patterns and Domain-Driven Design to the Actor Model. Source code.

• Modern Software Architecture: Domain Models, CQRS, and Event Sourcing: a course from Pluralsight that may help you triangulate your learning.