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Strategic DDD: The Pragmatic Path of Conformist Relationships
3 min readJan 8, 2025
Welcome to our exploration of Domain-Driven Design’s strategic patterns! In this post, we’ll dive deep into the Conformist pattern, where one bounded context deliberately adopts another’s model.
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If you are late to the party, or want to see what other relationships we tackled so far, here is the list:
Understanding Conformist
Think of the Conformist pattern like a small company adopting a major platform’s standards completely — like a small e-commerce business using Amazon’s categorization system exactly as is. Instead of creating and maintaining its own model, one context chooses to fully adopt another’s…
