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Adaptive Organizations meet Architecture @aomaconf.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

At the opening keynote of Agile meets Architecture 2026 @settling-mud.bsky.social talks about Sociotechnical Architecture. Please enjoy the talk on youtube and don't forget to subscribe as we are now going to release the talks of 2026 one by one. youtu.be/ww-osm-IZjI #amaberlin

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Sociotechnical Architecture – Having Your Agile and Your Agility Too – Xin Yao

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Aleix Morgadas @aleixmorgadas.dev · 26/02/2026

I just connected my substack to @usecommune.com from my friend @fmvilas.me 🧡 Join the open conversation! This place will be big 🚀 usecommune.com/n/engineerin...

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Virtual Domain-Driven Design @virtualddd.com · 10/02/2026

In last week's story, @settling-mud.bsky.social told us a very relatable story when everyone seemed to agree, but nobody acted. What would you do? Watch, Read or listen to it here: buff.ly/JX3e6Y4

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Virtual Domain-Driven Design @virtualddd.com · 03/02/2026

It's hard when workshop agreement never turns into real action. @settling-mud.bsky.social shares how "success theatre" and unspoken doubts undermine commitment, even with good intentions. She found a path to genuine engagement. Read, watch, or listen: buff.ly/JX3e6Y4

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Heading soon to @Øredev, exploring how modeling can become a way of leading complexity. 🌿 From work ↔ collaboration ↔ conversation — new modeling fronts will be explored using relational methodology and sociotechnical architecture. #Øredev #Leadership #sociotechnical_architecture #complexity

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

What a great recap and reflections on my talk about sociotechnical complexity last year's KanDDDinsky written by @smallcircles@social.coop on fediverse 🙏. I couldn't have written it better myself. discuss.coding.social/t/sx-perspec.... The talk itself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAav....

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

🆕 New InfoQ article: How Sociotechnical Design Can Improve Architectural Decisions Why social well-being isn’t just a means to better software—but a goal in itself. 👉 www.infoq.com/news/2025/09... Architecture is never just technical.

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How Sociotechnical Design Can Improve Architectural Decisions

Sociotechnical design in software development emphasizes creating systems where people and technology thrive by fostering collaboration, emergent coherence, and shared understanding through enabling c...

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Øredev @oredev.org · 08/07/2025

🧠 Meet the visionaries at #Oredev2025 👉Annette Vendelbo, CEO 👉Joshua Kerievsky, CEO @joshuakerievsky.bsky.social 👉Line Hviid, Process Consultant 👉Mike Burrows, Co-founder 👉Morten Elvang, Managing Partner 👉Xin Yao, Sociotechnical architect @settling-mud.bsky.social 👉 oredev.org/line-up?tags...

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Recent interview by InfoQ (🙏 @benlinders.bsky.social) about sociotechnical fitness. www.infoq.com/news/2025/05.... We talked about what it means to engage with sociotechnical complexity as a first-order challenge — not just treat it as a gnawing byproduct of scaling software or organizations.

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How a Sociotechnical Approach Can Help to Deal with Complexity

Today’s software professionals navigate a maze of technical, business, and social complexity. According to Xin Yao, thriving in this environment requires more than just technical and business expertis...

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Now we are done, and already one of the best talks I’ve ever seen. 🙏🏻🎉💙 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @settling-mud.bsky.social @johncutle.fish

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

“In my mind there is a different between change and transformation…. Change is destructive…. Transformation is reconstructive.” @settling-mud.bsky.social at @dddeu.bsky.social (Paraphrased by me. If I got it wrong I hope someone will correct me. Typing fast is hard.)

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"Technical design: make the implicit explicit. Social design: make the undiscussable discussable" @settling-mud.bsky.social @johncutle.fish at #dddeu

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"Freestyle a bit more in the problem space" @settling-mud.bsky.social at DDD Europe

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Cyrille Martraire @cyriux.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Domain-driven Design’s magic is to convert complex problems into predictable, repeatable, orderly software - @settling-mud.bsky.social with @johncutle.fish at #dddeu

Huge conference screen with the cynefin quadrants and the text: convert complex problems into predictable, repeatable, orderly software

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Thomas Coopman @tcoopman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"We have this mythical person in the DDD community: the domain expert" @settling-mud.bsky.social in the keynote with @johncutle.fish #dddeu

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"_The_ domain expert does not exist. It's an abstraction for all the complexities of the domain" @settling-mud.bsky.social

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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We’re not even done yet and I’m already planning to share this talk by @settling-mud.bsky.social and @johncutle.fish at @dddeu.bsky.social with *everyone*

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

As spring reluctantly reaches Scandinavia, the beauty of impermanence is everywhere. Emerging from some garden work i am wondering - so much “mud” as the world is in now, how can we keep our hearts open as a lotus flower, free of blame or despair. What do I need to compost, and what to grow?

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Made me recall Thomas Carlyle ".... the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." I would add to the last bit ... the worst is you do nothing because of how little you CAN do.

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Sting ("Englishman in NY") was in the news. His debut musical - the Last Ship - had its opening show at Østre Gasværk in Copenhagen. Journalist (J): Do you think a song can change the world? Sting (S): Probably not. I would hope it can plant a seed. J: Did the musical plant a seed? S: Yes.

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Thrilled to appear on the OrgDev Podcast with Garin & Dani - a fantastic knowledge radiator in the OD&D community. I'm truly humbled by their subtitle, "What can OD learn from DDD?" For me, it's equally true the other way around! 😊 youtu.be/I1-y245Nn9M?...

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Change Smuggling! What OD can learn from Domain Driven Design | Xin Yao | OrgDev podcast #60

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Xin Yao @settling-mud.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Loads of practical insight from @hschwentner.bsky.social at #OOP in Munich about domain-driven refactoring. Love the Monolease monolith case, the Hamburg concert hall metaphor and the filmography. Well designed and well deployed!

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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 03/02/2025

@settling-mud.bsky.social if we formalise our team API and misuse team topologies to say: we can only communicate in this API way to 'bridge the gap'. Reducing the social complexity will isolate the software architecture and that impacts trickle down to more brittle software...

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