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Fellow #DDD folks out there, Can someone explain to me what is a _practical_ difference between a vertical slice and a bounded context?

None if the bounded context is designed to have the same scope. Often though the systems in the stack will not share the same model, unfortunately.

Yes and Bounded context is a linguistic boundary. Vertical slice is more based on features boundary.

@ducin.dev also, a Vertical Slice(s) *might* be an implementation of a Bounded Context. #DDDesign

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Aaand... Every Vertical Slice is a Bounded Context, but not every Bounded Context is a Vertical Slice. :) #Trolololo #DDDesing

I don't think it is. User language in a vertical slice can be a separate language from further down the slice, hence separate Bounded context

Agree. Kinda wish it wasn't, but reality with different tiers make it very hard.

Thats why I added the troll face. 😉 It works better with 'microservices'. 😉