Domain Driven Design in Cloud Native Environments

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Argues that many tactical DDD patterns break on cloud native platforms and shows concrete adaptations: bounded contexts map to accounts/VPCs or clusters, serverless tradeoffs like cold starts and Lambda layers-as-binary-deps, and choices around one-account-per-team, one-cluster-per-team or one-namespace-per-team. Recounts a failed Flash-based language editor that was rebuilt with DDD, recommends infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform, Helm), advocates data mesh and MLops for operationalizing analytical models, warns low‑code/step‑function limits, and stresses alignment of data, infra and team boundaries.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 8:30From burnout to DDD focus
3. 10:15Transition to AWS and cloud challenges
4. 12:42Bounded contexts in cloud native
5. 16:20Serverless runtime behavior
6. 17:24Infrastructure boundaries per context
7. 20:55Context mapping and integration
8. 23:22Serverless function layers
9. 27:57Enforcing team boundaries
10. 31:53Self-service infrastructure
11. 34:24Data boundaries and persistence
12. 38:15Operational data latency
13. 41:02Analytical data governance
14. 43:06Machine learning data flow
15. 45:56Low-code environments limitations
16. 49:51Complexity in visual tools

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