A bounded context should keep its internal details private

Authors: Mathias Verraes

Submitter: Kenny Baas-Schwegler

How can we lower coupling from between bounded contexts or systems

If you are keeping monetary units in say 10 digits internally in a service, you would only pass out an amount in 2 digits precision because that’s all other consumers of the event would need

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