DDD by Night is this Wednesday! 🥳
Join us for an evening of lightning talks, dev ideas, and community vibes.
We’ll cover everything from bio-inspired databases and modern .NET architecture to no-code automation and LLM infrastructure.
👀 Space is limited — RSVP:
DDD by Night's happening next Wednesday! Elmer Roderick Bool will introduce us to neurUL–a new neurobiological programming language, that allows for highly efficient, and flexible methods for data storage.⚡️👏 RSVP
ICYMI DDD Melbourne by Night is on next week, join us for a great night of lightning talks, food, and friendly hangs. We'll have a lightning talk from Anderson Santos teaching us about no-code automation and build tools. ⚡️⚒️ 🧰 RSPVPs 👉
Thrilled to welcome Ben Taylor as a speaker at our next DDD by Night meetup💡
Ben will unpack the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — what it is, the security considerations involved, and why building MCP servers for LLM agents is surprisingly easy.
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So excited to welcome Suyogya Taneja as a speaker at the next DDD by Night meetup 🎤
Suyogya will explore CQRS across Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice Architecture, and Microservices — plus how AI-assisted development with Claude Code can speed things up!
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Some photos of me having fun at @dddmelbourne.bsky.social, asking you all not to engage in vibe coding, but practice intentional, Hypervelocity Engineering instead 🙂
Back on the plane, flying home from @dddmelbourne.bsky.social - it was a pleasure to speak about “Building Resilient Applications” earlier today. Great to hang out with the #umbraco family too. Thanks to all the organisers and volunteers! ❤️
New speakers, same incredible energy. ⚡️
A massive thank you to
Pavel Oborin
(Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck ) and
Lachlan Kingsford (How To Write Awful Unmaintainable Code)
The atmosphere in the room was filled with laughter and enthusiasm. Great way to wrap up the day.
#DDDMelbourne2026
We have reached that time, it’s the last (but not least) talk of the day! Daniel Fang is here to convince us all that we need a new hobby involving Lego and robots, and we might even have it fetching us a refreshing soft drink by the end. This is going to be fun! #DDDmeb
Amanda Pitcher takes the stage for the final session in the Supper Room! 2 Boeing 737 MAX crashes. 346 lives lost. $20 billion gone. 😳 The culprit? Organisational culture not the software.
Ditch groupthink and unlock your team’s secret weapon!
#DDDMelbourne
A successful software company grows, people are talking to each other, but things aren’t very efficient anymore. Enter, the Agile coach…and more and mor consultants…software is still late. Marin Niehues is here to share the secrets to success. Spoiler: it’s not capital “A” frameworks. #DDDMelb
PM in the Yarra Room! 💡
We had:
Max Downey Twiss on Resolving Technical Disagreements The Easy Way. 🤝
Will Velida on how platform engineering and generative AI can work together to improve developer experiences, increasing your velocity beyond "vibe coding." 🚀💻
#DDDMelbourne2026
Have you lost hours or days debugging permissions issues, or fighting with internal tools that you have no insight into? Laura and Baani are here to showcase the value of managing internally facing platforms as legit products. Because a platforms job is to reduce mental load for devs. 🚀✨ 🥳#DDDMelb
Software will crash… it’s just a matter of when! That’s why systems need to fail gracefully and bounce back fast.
Callum Whyte is sharing tips and tools to build resilient systems that survive anything. 🚀 #DDDMelb
Takeaways from Kirsty‘s #DDDMelb talk about Infrastructure as code anti-patterns;
1️⃣ - IaC is great
2️⃣ - Use with checks and balances built into our code
3️⃣ - Good for all engineers to be exposed to (not just platform)
Building real-time web apps doesn’t have to feel like juggling flaming torches! Join William Liebenberg at #DDDMelb final workshop as he breaks down how Blazor WebAssembly, SignalR, and Fluxor make building responsive, real-time apps a breeze. 🚀
We're at #dddmelb today, sponsoring the community hall!
Join us for a sticker swap in the Collins room to meet the local Melbourne community and learn about the #pyconau CFP!
2026.pycon.org.au/cfp
Find the #pyconau team! They might just have some exclusive stickers that aren't on the table!
We love this! Moar crafting at DDD!
9 habits that managers have that create burnout in engineering teams.
Andrew Murphy at #DDDMelb
Randi is hosting a fantastic afternoon session on the idea that careers, like code, need to be “refactored.” ⚒️
Key takeaway 👉 It’s not about learning every technology, but about staying open to change and building adaptability.
#DDDMelbourne2026
Kirsty McDonald is here to deep dive into the dark, scary world of infrastructure as code anti-patterns so you can avoid them! Kicking off with an IRL horror story. 👻 #DDDMelb
With integrations comes complexity, and it isn’t just technical! It’s the number of stakeholders, understanding their needs and communicating goals. Emad encourages us to make use and surface the systems existing data to minimize any misunderstandings. Because change afterwards is hard! 😅 #DDDMelb
Incredible sessions today in the Yellow Room!
We had two speakers diving into:
1️⃣ “Code is a Conversation: What Are You Really Saying to the Next Developer?” by Joel Gallagher
2️⃣ “Who tests the testers? Making and testing pipelines” by Evan Kohilas
Big thank you to our speakers
#DDDMelbourbne2026
“Most people learn to change a tire the first time they get a flat tire…you don’t need to wait until you get a flat”. You can simulate that, and practice before hand…then you’ll know how to recover safely! — @amynorris.bsky.social
“Failure is the Boss Monster of Success…you want more failure because you want less failure…the tenth time you take down prod is easier than the first! We’re here at #DDDMelb learning how to be really comfortable with failure, in order to be a better with @amynorris.bsky.social 👏
Welcome to the first workshop of DDD Melbourne 2026. We’re kicking things off with Rakesh Lakshminarayana, who will be diving into "From Bots to Brains: Patterns for Building Intelligent AI Agents”. Get ready to learn how to create AI agents that can do much more than just chat! 🤩
#DDDMelb
First up in the Yarra Room at #DDDMelb we have the incredible Gretchen Scott talking about building sustainable communities…the right way! Because move fast & break things? Yeahhh nahhh. 💜🩷🧡
“AI isn’t a crystal ball; it’s a mirror.” 🪞
A huge thank you to Sreyna Rath for a meaningful opening keynote: “AI: It’s Our Responsibility.”💻✨
#DDDMelbourne2026 #ResponsibleAI #DevCommunity
Kicking off the big day at #DDDMelb with coffee and new friends at our networking breakfast, thanks to our sponsors Kaleida 💜🩷🧡
☀️Rise and shine for DDDMelbourne 2026!
See you at registration really soon.
If you have pre ordered that cool Tshirt be sure to pick it up.
☕️ Our coffee carts ready ☕️
Big thanks to Drawboard and REAGroup keeping us caffeinated for the rest of the day.