Gayathri Thiyagarajan
Technology Lead, Expedia Group

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.

Sessions

16:50–17:35 Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Location: Expo Hall Sessions

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

Application architecture, Expo Plus Sessions

Secondary topics: Anti-Pattern, Case Study, Theoretical

Andrew Harmel-Law (ThoughtWorks), Gayathri Thiyagarajan (Expedia Group)

Everyone doing large-scale software delivery is using domain-driven design (DDD) these days, because it holds the key to delivering maintainable, evolvable solutions with independent teams. But it can go wrong, and then DDD is blamed. Andrew Harmel-Law and Gayathri Thiyagarajan detail a real project they saw fail. You'll learn the many problems they spotted and how they fixed them. Read more.