Adopting domain-driven design at scale: Near enemies and how to defeat them

Andrew Harmel-Law is a technical principal at ThoughtWorks. Having started his tech career as a presales support engineer with Sun Microsystems, Andrew is old enough to have witnessed the dot-com boom and bust first hand. His recent experiences over the last 13 years have been as a consultant. He has a particular interest in setting dev teams up for success, loves teaching and mentoring, and encouraging diversity in tech. Andrew loves learning new things and is always seeking out people he can learn new skills and gain different perspectives from. Having originally studied neural networks the second time they were cool (in the 1990s) he’s also currently using his spare time struggling to remember his high school math and trying to catch up on all the fuss around deep learning. Andrew has left a trail of blogs strewn across the internet, the most recent being at https://andrewharmellaw.github.io. He also managed to be around at the inception of the Jenkins Job DSL project—his most significant OSS contribution to date.

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Gayathri Thiyagarajan is a technology lead at Expedia Group. With over 15 years of experience in delivering scalable, autonomous software applications mainly using Java technologies, she has wide experience working in various domains such as travel, public sector, supplier management, logistics, consumer products, and retail industries. She has wide range of experience doing application design and architecture, specializing in distributed systems for big data and applied domain-driven design (DDD), command query responsibility segregation (CQRS), and event sourcing. She’s working on delivering a big data capture platform for Hotels.com using DDD and event sourcing principles. She’s a proficient speaker at conferences such as Devoxx and muCon and an experienced blogger.