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Why Many Spring Boot Projects Outgrow Their Initial Architecture: The Value of DDD and Hexagonal Design

Laszlo Simon

2026-07-10

Architecture, Software Design, Backend

Most Spring Boot projects start in a very similar way:

Controller layer
Service layer
Repository layer

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