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Software Architect Phil Wills, guardian.co.uk
Phil Wills spent his university career studying Physics, but having realised he probably wasn't going to be an astronaut, opted for the next best thing: a career in software development for the web. Phil has experience with a broad range of languages and technologies, but has spent the past three years focussing on redevloping guardian.co.uk with a focus on building a strong domain model and achieving high performance. |
Presentation: "Rebuilding guardian.co.uk with DDD"
Track:
Domain Driven Design
Time: Friday 10:45 - 11:45 Location: City Room
Abstract: guardian.co.uk is the three times winner of the Webby for best newspaper
on the web and the UK's most popular newspaper website, with over 220
million page impressions a month. Over the past three years the
platform driving the site has been almost completely rebuilt, by a team
that at its peak numbered 104, with the principles of DDD at the heart
of the design.
This presentation reviews how key evolutions of our model were driven by
domain experts and how DDD encouraged them to have greater investment
in the development process. It also discusses some low-tech practices
and tools which helped the design and implementation of the model and
some of the remaining challenges we face in maintaining a deep,
malleable domain model, whilst still meeting deadlines and addressing
the operational needs of the business.
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