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A student of open sociotechnical systems at Capra with a ghoulish sense of post-punk and a geeky interest in science and systems thinking. He/him. #DDDesign #SocioTechnical #SoftwareArchitecture trond.hjorteland.com

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · Jan 15

This concludes my thread on sociotechnical design principles. If you like to have a look, use this as an entry point, as the threading was a bit tricky to get right. Click on each one for more details. There are so many valuable insights here that we need when establishing sociotechnical systems

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Vaughn Vernon @vaughnvernon.bsky.social · 14h

OH: YAGNI is contextual.

Everything is contextual. One of the very worst software issues globally is people not understanding that.

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Virtual Domain-Driven Design @virtualddd.com · 2d

We've scheduled a new session on a common challenge: seeing the whole system beyond our own part. Trond Hjorteland will introduce systems thinking to help us gain a holistic perspective on complexity.

4 November, 08:00 (GMT+13)
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Virtual Domain-Driven Design @virtualddd.com · 2d

Ghost decisions can cast a long shadow, influencing everything from technology choices to team structures. Listen to our latest Story on Facilitating Software Architecture and Design to learn more buff.ly/5kb55OP

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 1d

Suspect many will get a hands-on experience of what the ironies of automation is all about with all this LLM assisted coding.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 4d

"In a complex system, control does not emanate from a single source. Should this happen, the system would become degenerate, lose its adaptability and survive only as long as the environment remained stable."
—Paul Cilliers

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 6d

We now have a generation of developers who’ve never experienced an alternative to blocking code reviews.

But pull requests aren’t anyone’s security blanket, and it will only take a new fashion to change this.

Thierry’s excellent presentation is a call to action for the trend setters.

Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 6d

The slide deck of my session

Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a Case Study

Thank you for all the interesting questions and the lovely feedback. I’m truly grateful for that ☺️

#agilecam

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Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a Case Study

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The Cure @thecure.com · 8d

NORWAY!
Øyafestival
AUGUST 12, 2026
TICKETS - oyafestivalen.seetickets.com

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JavaZone @javazone.bsky.social · 7d

📸 The memories live on!
We’ve uploaded a full album of pictures from JavaZone 2025 – relive the energy, the code, and the community.

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And yes… while you’re scrolling, know that we’ve already started sketching out plans for JavaZone 2026. Stay tuned!

Javazone 2025

Photo collection by Ard Jongsma / Still Words Photography

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 7d

Salmon wasn’t used in sushi until the 1980s when Norway produced too much salmon and launched ad campaigns in Japan to sell some of their excess fish.

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Virtual Domain-Driven Design @virtualddd.com · 8d

We’re moving our main home for events from Meetup to Humanitix. Follow us on Humanitix (Our new home for events):
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#VirtualDDD #DomainDrivenDesign #Community #Humanitix #TechForGood

Virtual Domain-Driven Design | Humanitix

Virtual Domain-Driven Design uses Humanitix for their events. Discover events by Virtual Domain-Driven Design, learn more, or contact this host.

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Chris Simon @chrissimon.au · 9d

Have been looking forward to this talk coming out - had so much fun playing with the loopy causal loop diagrams, check it out 😀

Special thanks to @paulrayner.bsky.social for feedback and advice the night before this one! @dddeu.bsky.social #systemsthinking

Domain-Driven Design Europe @dddeu.bsky.social · 10d

In this talk Chris Simon will demonstrate the building of a range of causal feedback loops to visualise the underlying causes of the problems. With such visualisations we can advocate for the practices of technical excellence:
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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 11d

I'm excited to be talking next week @gotocon.com (Copenhagen) about how to make architecture work in todays complex, ever-evolving world.

There will be lots about the Architecture Advice Process, and a wee drop of anarchy too. (But no chaos, promise.)

Come and find me for a chat if you're there.

Promo card for my GOTO Copenhagen 2025 talk. It says "Learn how to make architecture everyone's job without creating chaos, with Andrew Harmel-Law, Tech Principal at Thoughtworks"

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Agile meets Architecture @amaconf.bsky.social · 12d

Learn practical strategies for modernizing legacy systems! @esilva.net and @nick-tune.me 's talk on architecture modernization is now live, addressing both technical challenges and organizational dynamics.

youtu.be/1DgrySggdCE

#AmABerlin

Towards Effective Execution of Architecture Modernization - Eduardo da Silva, Nick Tune

YouTube video by Agile meets Architecture

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 11d

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Why you should be polite to AI

YouTube video by Hannah Fry

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 15d

ICYMI: I wrote about how your domains and bounded contexts don't map 1 on 1. #DDDesign
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No, Your Domains and Bounded Contexts Don’t Map 1 on 1

Bounded Contexts are a design choice to suit engineering needs

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Arnfinn Pettersen @arnfinnp.bsky.social · 16d

One of the weird things about history, is that we see it from the wrong end. Thus our idea of fascists, tend to be people in sharp uniforms, marching and running concentration camps.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 18d

Afakata is also nice if you don't mind paying a bit. Set tasting menues AFAIK.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 18d

Fiskerieret is not bad, and there are other nice places, like Girotondo (great pizzas) and Rugantino. Both Italian, so not so local. Maybe Grilleriet in the Folketeateret passage?

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 20d

What if you could ditch the prepared slides and adapt your talk to the audience in real time? That's what I got to experiment with yesterday at the Frontify software talks meetup in St. Gallen.

My talk was about technical leadership and facilitating better architectural decision-making. Instead ->

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Andrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 22d

Super sad that @andrewhl.bsky.social can't join us and also happy we get to collaborate with @kenny.weave-it.org talking about "The paradox or polarity between decentralised and centralised decision-making"
See you there

Virtual Domain-Driven Design @virtualddd.com · 22d

We've had a change of plans for our next session. We’ll postpone @andrewhl.bsky.social talk to a later date. Instead holding a new interactive session on the paradox between centralised and decentralised decision-making.

Date: September 23, 2025
Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (GMT+12)
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The paradox or polarity between decentralised and centralised decision-making

When it comes to giving software teams the autonomy to make their own decisions, trust can be a delicate thing. This is particularly true when those decisions can have a wider impact on other teams…

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Virtual Domain-Driven Design @virtualddd.com · Sep 9

We scheduled a new session with Andrew Harmel-Law on anarchist thought & socio-technical design. A look at alternatives to top-down hierarchy for building better teams.

📅 23 Sept at 19:00 NZST

#DDD #SocioTechnical
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#DomainDrivenDesign #SocioTechnicalSystems #SoftwareArchitecture

Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchy (but were afraid to ask) - Andrew Harmel-Law

“Patterns of Anarchy” is a collection of writings published in 1966. We should care about it as software professionals because a) Christopher Alexander quotes from it in “A Pattern Language” and b)…

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29d

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual.

That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

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Virtual Domain-Driven Design @virtualddd.com · Sep 8

We've been putting some much-needed love into our virtual DDD community! We're evolving beyond just Domain-Driven Design to become the worldwide online community for designing software to solve complex business problems, organised in a decentralised way.
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Agile meets Architecture @amaconf.bsky.social · Sep 6

Bridge business needs and IT solutions! @kenny.weave-it.org & Evelyn Van Kelle share facilitation techniques for sustainable design. Watch their talk now and subscribe for more on collaborative design! youtu.be/xOHax5k_wJo #AmABerlin

Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions

YouTube video by Agile meets Architecture

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JavaZone @javazone.bsky.social · Sep 5

📜 Missed the gathering at JavaZone, or wish to relive its glory?

Fear not — the scrolls of wisdom (talks) will soon be unveiled on our Vimeo forum: vimeo.com/javazone

Ave JavaZone! 🏛️

JavaZone

JavaZone is one of the world's biggest community driven conferences. Watch more than 1300 talks from the previous years' JavaZone here, all for free!

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