Techorama 2015

For the long-time database focused developer, shifting your focus to designing software around solving business problems and setting persistence in the back seat is a scary prospect. But it doesn’t need to be. Domain Driven Design has been a widely used practice for over a decade and many of the questions about how the persistence will succeed if you follow the DDD guidance have already been researched, answered and implemented. This session will review some of the tenants of DDD implementation and, using Microsoft's Entity Framework as an example Object Relational Mapper, will show you what to expect when it's time to implement a data persistence in your DDD based software. You'll learn what will work easily, what might take a little finagling and what you might just want to completely avoid. The presentation will be based on the experience of a data driven developer who has recently lived through this panic-ridden transition along with the experiences of a variety of development teams who have made the same journey.