Rule: Design Small Aggregates

We can now thoroughly address this question: What additional cost would there be for keeping the large-cluster Aggregate? Even if we guarantee that every transaction would succeed, a large cluster still limits performance and scalability. As SaaSOvation develops its market, it’s going to bring in lots of tenants. As each tenant makes a deep commitment to ProjectOvation, SaaSOvation will host more and more projects and the management artifacts to go along with them. That will result in vast numbers of products, backlog items, releases, sprints, and others. Performance and scalability are nonfunctional requirements that cannot be ignored.

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