DDD & REST - Domain-Driven APIs for the web

Hi there,

we're really looking forward to this event. Here's the plan:

18:30h: Socializing, not staying hungry and thirsty

19:00h: "DDD & REST - Domain-Driven APIs for the web" talk

20:00h: Socializing, not staying hungry and thirsty

21:00h: going to nearby bar to chat and have a drink

If you want to twitter, it'd be nice to use our @DDDBER handle :) ... and of course @olivergierke

DDD & REST - Domain-Driven APIs for the web

While Domain-Driven Design is supposed to take care of complexity in the very core of software, REST is usually treated a plain remoting technology. In the talk we're going to explore some commonalities of the two when it comes to the design of both the domain and resources. We're going to discover how a good domain design is essential to build a great REST API in the first place and which means REST provides to make your APIs more domain driven.

From all of the building blocks of DDD, the talk identifies the ones most important when it comes to building a good REST API: we're going to look at aggregates as natural boundaries for representations, repositories as the backing foundation for collection resources and how hypermedia allows to make domain specific state transitions explicit.

Speaker: Oliver Gierke (@olivergierke) is the lead of the Spring Data project at Pivotal and member of the JPA 2.1 expert group. He has been into developing enterprise applications and open source projects for over 10 years now. His working focus is centered around software architecture, DDD, REST, and persistence technologies. He is regularly speaking at German and international conferences and the author of technology articles as well as the first book on Spring Data.