You can’t perfectly design your software system from the beginning.

Your system design will evolve as you iterate based on customer feedback and new information. Once you have this iterative cycle, refactoring and adding new product capacities becomes easier

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@newcrafts.bsky.social Day 2 in Paris 🇫🇷 is underway.

@tcoopman.bsky.social ran a workshop reviewing the advantages of using LLMs to design complex software systems.

And @gienverschatse.com closed the day with her keynote on how to make better decisions in complex software projects.

🚫 Your bounded contexts shouldn't match 1-1 with your business domains.

Mathias Verraes, Aardling's principal consultant, recently wrote about this on his blog. verraes.net/2025/08/doma...

Jordy Dehaes, CTO: "Protime was in a challenging moment when Aardling came along and Thomas struck the right balance between getting input and moving forward."

"It definitely helped to have that outside voice with different experiences," says Erik Sacré.
📖 Read the full case study: bit.ly/3IdwYMC

From chaos to clarity: Designing the new team structure: Aardling didn't just identify Protime's ownership problem, they architected the solution.

The transformation design:
FROM:Feature teams rotating every 4-6 months
TO:Domain-aligned teams with clear ownership

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The power of asking the right questions at the right time 💡
Aardling's breakthrough with Protime came through carefully designed workshops with a cross-section of the software organisation.
📖 Read the full case study: bit.ly/3IdwYMC

Erik Sacré, Protime's Technology Architect, highlights what made Aardling's guidance valuable:
"Thomas could point to examples where this had worked or where this didn't work. I could only bring it from a theoretical point of view
📖 Read the full case study: bit.ly/3IdwYMC

How do you diagnose complex organisational problems?
When Protime contacted Aardling in 2023, they had 12 teams, solid technical infrastructure, but delivery was unpredictable.
The breakthrough insight: "Everyone owns everything" had become "No one owns anything."
📖 bit.ly/3IdwYMC

Calling all data leaders and practitioners! 📣 Data Mesh Live 2026 is your essential meeting point for advice, guidance, and community in managing data in complex environments. Join us June 11-12, 2026, for practical, actionable insights on building modern data systems at scale: 2026.datameshlive.com

The CFP for Domain-Driven Design Europe 2026 and for Data Mesh Live 2026 is open:
Our consultants wrote some tips to help write the best CFP: aardling.eu/en/insights/...

Aardling is bringing two leading conferences back to Antwerp in 2026!
- DDD Europe (June 10-12)
- Data Mesh Live (June 11-12)
Tickets are now open for both conferences: ti.to/on3/aardling26.

Nothing beats face-to-face learning and networking. Join us in beautiful Paris for an immersive workshop experience where you can connect with fellow practitioners and dive deep into complex scenarios together.

🇫🇷 Location: Paris, France
🤝 Format: Interactive in-person workshop
👉 ti.to/aafr/nc25

Join our expert Aardling consultant Gien Verschatse for an in-depth exploration of strategic DDD concepts. This training focuses on the high-level design patterns and strategic thinking that make DDD so powerful for complex business domains.

Discover Strategic DDD: ddd.academy/strategic-dd...

Come and say hi to us at the Aardling booth @dddeu.bsky.social @eventcentric.bsky.social! Learn about how we help teams with domain modelling and software strategy. We're also raffling off a pair of Sennheiser headphones 🎧

Most of the articles that can be found on the Internet about Event Sourcing are wrong or incomplete. Oskar Dudycz will gather crazy ideas from the Internet and compile them into a recipe for disaster. By the end of this video, you'll have an idea of what, and what not, to do. youtu.be/JTtia9jFHdE

You can’t perfectly model a system from the beginning. Designing software is often an iterative process where you build, share with customers, add features and so on.

@tcoopman.bsky.social speaks w/ @gienverschatse.com about DDD, tactical design patterns, and why refactoring is a non-negotiable.

We’ve recorded the first episode of our new vodcast, Satisfying Software. We’ll be interviewing people in technology about software design, strategy, and architecture in complex environments.

Here’s a teaser from ep one with Barry O'Reilly and @gienverschatse.com

Who else should we speak to?