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With all of these services, how can I not be anemic?

Where do we draw the line between delegation and encapsulation of business logic? It seems to me that the more we delegate, the more anemic we become. However, delegation also promotes reuse and the ...
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Definition of a 3-tier system

People often claim that they are following a '3-tier (or n-tier) architecture', and sometimes they then claim to be switching to a Domain Model. But I really never have understood what this mythical ...
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Does current evidence support the adoption of Contextual over Canonical Data Models?

The "canonical" idea is pervasive in software; patterns like Canonical Model, Canonical Schema, Canonical Data Model and so on, seem to come up again and again in development. Like many developers, ...
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Representing domain objects

This is related to my recent question regarding naming awkward domain objects. A number of answers indicated I was using the wrong representation for the domain objects. To summarize, I chose to use ...