World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage

How We Waste Time Building APIs — and the Moment DDD Starts to Matter

June 30, 2026

What this session covers

Is Domain-Driven Design just a theoretical concept?

When working in the trenches, most teams don’t start with Bounded Contexts or Context Maps.
They start with tickets, acceptance criteria, and… the need to ship APIs!


Over time, APIs grow. New consumers appear. Shared resources emerge.
And suddenly teams struggle with questions like:
 - Who owns this API?
 - Can we change this contract?
 - Why does every small decision require an architect?

In this talk, I’ll tell the story of how teams naturally evolve APIs in chaos — and why this is not a failure.


I’ll show the moment when Domain-Driven Design stops being theoretical and becomes a practical decision-making tool: helping teams reason about relationships between bounded contexts, ownership, and autonomy — without “doing full DDD”.


This is not a tutorial.


It’s a provocative look at how strategic DDD can support evolutionary API design and team autonomy in large systems.

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