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eggsby | 8 months ago

Seems to be enforcing ‘ubiquitous language’ at the machine level - not some kind of mathematical dual where one is invertible to the other - but enforcing soft skills as hard skills.

  ‘protobuf specs dont have enough information for us to codegen iceberg tables so we will write a new codegen spec language’
what makes a duck a duck? when we know which tables we can find it in

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regularfry|8 months ago

Except that "Ubiquitous Language" is supposed to refer to terminology within a specific Bounded Context. In DDD it is desirable and expected that there is a mapping between them. This proposal tries to entirely erase Bounded Contexts. This is what I mean about people not understanding the words.

So in the sense of "what do we do about terminology not matching across an organisation" this and DDD are literal opposite solutions: one says "erase differences with a central definition (and bear the coordination costs)" while the other says "encourage differences with local definitions (and bear the mapping costs)".

osi|8 months ago

UDA enables both approaches. each has its place.