Technical direction and strategy
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Unlocking legacy code in online travel
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The online travel industry is changing, can you unlock your legacy systems fast enough to keep up?
What good leadership looks like in uncertain times
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Essential strategies to steer your team successfully in times of uncertainty
An engineering leader’s guide to creating a yearly roadmap
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Strategies for setting clear objectives and prioritizing business goals
Tackling technical debt
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Exploring how to overcome the challenges of legacy and accelerate your team
WebAssembly is still waiting for its moment
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Generate buy-in with compelling engineering strategies
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How Zalando uses its own Tech Radar to make better technology choices
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4 things you need to know from the latest Thoughtworks Tech Radar
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Who holds the edge in the JavaScript framework wars?
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12 things to consider when assessing open source software
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Working with leadership to plan for a successful new year
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Crafting an effective tech strategy and getting buy-in for it
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How to get leadership buy-in on your tech strategy
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The 6 biggest generative AI risks for developers
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Can platform engineering help you do more with less?
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When to migrate from a monolithic to a distributed frontend architecture
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Kubernetes for engineering managers
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Building an effective technical strategy
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How to make plans for an uncertain future
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The five stages of digital maturity
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Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team
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Using Open Source safely and effectively
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Building a successful and sustainable CI/CD pipeline
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Technical strategy power chords
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Making ‘Big Changes’ Successfully
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When planning long-term, favor accuracy over precision
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Best practice for seamless product integration
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Laying the foundations for a successful build
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Forging the path to faster shipping in enterprise orgs
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Carving a modern engineering org out of an enterprise
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To build, or to buy, that is the question
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Measuring and improving the efficiency of software delivery
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Managing technical risk
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Creating technology products that your customers love
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Avoiding “shiny object” syndrome when building software
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Avoiding the pitfalls of rebuilding software
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Telling stories through your commits
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Creating Architecture and Teams at Less-than-Google Scale
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Learnings from 'Maintaining speed while minimizing risk'
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Achieving speed and quality without sacrifice in engineering
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How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage
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Hypothesis-driven development
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The Boring Stack
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Lessons for frontend development at scale
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How to build an effective technical strategy
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PostgreSQL: The database that quietly ate the world
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AI and Kubernetes are pushing cloud costs out of control
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Leading open-source teams in large organizations
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Crafting an effective technical strategy: Business success through targeted investment
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Being a tech lead doesn’t mean having all the answers
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Using workshops to align technical vision and team principles
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Want to stay technical as a manager? Stay curious
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The difficult teenage years: setting your tech strategy after the launch
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Learnings from 'Carving a modern engineering org out of an enterprise’
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Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19
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A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
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Building a more globally inclusive internet
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The thin line between technology advocacy and ideology
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Four key metrics for measuring DevOps success
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Building and conveying vision
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The importance of pragmatism when building and maintaining systems
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Getting GitOps right
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Scaling held knowledge to unblock teams and untangle software complexity
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The problem with "the platform"
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Breaking down our understanding of system resilience
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