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2026-04-18 12:19
Value Objects, Entities, and Aggregates in Go — Without a Framework
Domain-Driven Design in Go doesn't look like DDD in Java. There are no annotations, no repository interfaces from a framework, no @Entity markers. The building blocks — Value Objects, Entities, and Aggregates — emerge from Go's type system and encapsulation rules.
Here's how each pattern appeared in a security CLI through refactoring, with the actual before/after code.
Value Objects: Eq...