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Tech leads are overwhelmed. Here’s how to take back control
It’s perfectly natural to feel overwhelmed as a tech lead.
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Choosing a new AI-coding tool? Here’s what to look for
The right AI tool doesn’t just write code. It makes your team better.
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In partnership with HarnessHow to rethink software releases in the age of AI
AI has had a tremendous impact on the act of coding, but software release processes haven’t adapted to keep up. Let’s change that.
Editor’s picks
New York • September 15-16, 2026
Speakers Camille Fournier, Gergely Orosz and Will Larson confirmed 🙌
Essential reading
How to build an effective technical strategy
Building a tech strategy requires a lot of moving parts. Learn about what routes to take and whether decisions should be top-down.
On our Technical Direction playlist
Modernizing legacy systems: A technical strategy for evolving monoliths into modern architectures at HelloFresh
Gain insights into transforming legacy systems into scalable architectures, with practical strategies for balancing stability, managing technical debt, and enabling growth opportunities at HelloFresh.
Technical Vision vs. Technical Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Jonathan Maltz digs into the nuts and bolts of setting a successful technical strategy. Startin by talking about the difference between technical vision and technical strategy.
How to implement platform engineering at scale
In this webinar, we’ll hear from enterprise engineering leaders who’ve overcome cultural barriers and team silos, and successfully adopted platform engineering practices in their orgs.
Good technical debt
Jon Thornton discusses how this framework was used to rapidly build and ship Squarespace’s Email Campaigns product in less than 15 months. Along the way, you’ll get several practical guidelines for how tech debt can supercharge your technical investments.
Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy
Having a defined tech strategy creates alignment and keeps everyone on the same page. So how can you ensure yours is most effective? Panelists Anna Shipman, Randy Shoup, Papanii Nene Okai, Nimisha Asthagiri and Anand Mariappan share their tips.
The festival for modern engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Technical Direction
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The staff+ playbook for derisking big decisions
Staff+ engineers need a broad understanding of how organizations operate and evolve.
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What is context engineering?
The mechanics of context engineering and how it enhances AI-assisted development.
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What Tailwind teaches us about open source in the age of AI
The rise of AI coding tools is a stress test on open source software business models.
Top Technical Direction videos
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In partnership with HarnessDerisking releases in the AI era
Learn the secrets of doing leading edge progressive delivery and experimentation in the real world.
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In partnership with HarnessAvoiding cost drift in the age of AI
You’ve heard of configuration drift, now cost drift could be the answer to your cloud bill woes.
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In partnership with GitkrakenHow to measure the business impact of AI
The CFO conversation is coming. Here’s how to be ready.
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In partnership with CauselyWhat’s your telemetry data really trying to tell you?
Data alone was never enough. Here’s how to start surfacing real context from dashboards, instead of just watching the alerts pile up.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployWhy good teams rely on bad workarounds
Messy workarounds aren’t a symptom of careless teams, but of delivery pipelines that aren’t fit for purpose. Here’s how to root out the unnecessary friction.
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In partnership with PostmanHow to avoid platform engineering anti-patterns
What to do when your “golden paths” aren’t being used.
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In partnership with ChainguardRooting out sneaky sources of toil
What to do next when unplanned work is killing velocity.
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In partnership with Dash0Are you ready for agentic observability?
Designing for observability in the age of AI.