The December chill still clung to the air in the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu, but Meera knew the sun was on the verge of turning warm. For the past week, her life had been a blur of honks, luggage, and the peculiar smell of airline food mixed with jasmine. She had flown in from San Francisco, her heart a knot of guilt and anticipation.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a software development philosophy introduced by Eric Evans in his 2003 book,

Eric Evans ' seminal work, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software