Andrzej Kostrzewa andrewprofile

If you have two days to learn the very basics of modelling, Domain-Driven Design, CQRS and Event Sourcing, here's what you should do:

In the evenings read the [Domain-Driven Design Quickly Minibook]{http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly}. During the day watch following great videos (in this order):

1. Eric Evans' [What I've learned about DDD since the book]{http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ddd-eric-evans}
2. Eric Evans' [Strategic Design - Responsibility Traps]{http://www.infoq.com/presentations/design-strategic-eric-evans}
3. Udi Dahan's [Avoid a Failed SOA: Business & Autonomous Components to the Rescue]{http://www.infoq.com/presentations/SOA-Business-Autonomous-Components}
4. Udi Dahan's [Command-Query Responsibility Segregation]{http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Command-Query-Responsibility-Segregation}
5. Greg Young's [Unshackle Your Domain]{http://www.infoq.com/presentations/greg-young-unshackle-qcon08}
6. Eric Evans' [Acknowledging CAP at the Root -- in the Domain Model]{ht

• Broadway - Infrastructure and testing helpers for creating CQRS and event sourced applications
• EventCentric.Core - Event Sourcing and CQRS in PHP
• LiteCQRS - Small convention based CQRS library for PHP
• predaddy - Common DDD classes including an annotation driven message bus and tools for CQRS and Event Sourcing
• ProophEventSourcing - Provides basic functionality for event-sourced aggregates
• ProophEventStore - PHP 5.4+ EventStore Implementation
• ProophServiceBus - PHP Enterprise Service Bus Implementation supporting CQRS and DDD