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Strategic DDD: The Art of Partnership Relationships
Welcome to our exploration of Domain-Driven Design’s strategic patterns! In this post, we’ll dive deep into the Partnership pattern, where bounded contexts collaborate as true equals.
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Understanding Partnership
Think of this relationship like a joint venture between two companies — both parties have equal say, share responsibilities, and succeed or fail together. Unlike Customer-Supplier or Upstream/Downstream patterns, partnerships represent true peer collaboration where both contexts evolve together.
Detailed Analysis
Description: The Partnership pattern represents a collaborative relationship where contexts work together as equals. Both teams have equal say in decisions, share responsibility for success, and must coordinate closely on changes. This pattern works particularly well when contexts have complementary responsibilities that naturally…
