Usually, you don’t hear much talk about contextualizing generic subdomains. You imagine it's a solved problem with off-the-shelf tools; inventing the wheel is unnecessary. While theoretically, this is true, it's not how it goes in the real world. In the real world, we find ourselves searching for the perfect tools, which often don’t exist. When we come to this conclusion, we settle and enrich them with missing requirements crucial for our supporting and core domains.

In this talk, I will share my experience as an architect at a platform group and discuss how we can assess the maturity of generic subdomains. I will share how these maturity levels are related to context mapping and how context mapping is related to real-world design patterns in a distributed system.