Value Object / Object Count

Kind: tension

Record: tension:object-count-value-object

Canonical: Schema

"value-object" (domain-modeling layer) is traded against "Object Count" (domain-modeling layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Object Count" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Aggregate / Aggregate Size and before Entity / Value Object.

In tension with

• Value Object
• Object Count

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Domain Architecture
• Resolution mechanisms