Structural engineering and Domain-Driven Design face the same fundamental challenges: impossibly complex systems, unclear boundaries, a multitude of stakeholders, and catastrophic failure modes.

Architecture, foundations, frameworks, we have borrowed their vocabulary, but have we also learned from their solutions? As a software engineer with a decade of experience and a background in structural engineering, I'll show you what we're missing

I will walk you through how structural engineering's matured practices apply to DDD:
- Choose the right model for the problem (and ruthlessly strip away everything else)
- Distinguish between serviceability and ultimate failures
- Break down complex systems into calculable models
- Design for the people who'll build it, not just use it
- Make designs that not only work but feel safe
- Decide what to custom-build versus prefabricate

I'll share time-tested lessons from an engineering discipline that's been modeling reality for centuries and how you can apply them to your domain models, your bounded contexts, and your team.