Most applications don’t start out complex. They grow into it.
What often begins as a simple CRUD setup slowly turns into something harder to reason about: business rules leak everywhere, read and write concerns get tangled, and every change feels risky. That’s exactly the point where patterns like DDD and CQRS start to make sense, but they’re also easy to get wrong.
That’s why I created my new Pluralsight course: Domain-Driven Design: CQRS in Practice.
In this course, I focus on the practical side of CQRS. How to introduce it step by step without over-engineering your system. We start from a more traditional setup and gradually refactor toward a clearer separation of responsibilities, guided by the domain rather than by infrastructure concerns.
You’ll see how to:
- Move away from CRUD when it starts to hurt
- Separate read and write models in a way that stays understandable
- Encapsulate behavior using domain concepts
- Apply CQRS without turning your codebase into a framework demo
The examples are .NET-focused and based on real trade-offs teams run into in production.
If you’re working on applications that are growing in complexity and want to make better architectural decisions without going “full theory mode,” this course is for you.
▶️ Watch the course here.