Domain-Driven Design Bounded Contexts Explained! 🚀
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The video explains the concept of bounded context in Domain-Driven Design (DDD), highlighting its role in managing complexity by defining clear boundaries within which a ubiquitous language applies. Using examples from an online education platform and a travel booking platform, it shows how the same term (e.g., “student” or “booking”) can have different meanings in different parts of a system, leading to confusion without bounded contexts. The video clarifies the differences between subdomains and bounded contexts, illustrating how bounded contexts shape software architecture while subdomains reflect business areas. It also discusses how bounded contexts facilitate team ownership, maintainability, and scalability, emphasizing that each bounded context should be owned by a single team. Finally, it uses the analogy of a tomato being classified differently in botany and culinary arts to illustrate that definitions are context-dependent and must be managed properly to avoid misunderstandings in complex systems.