Conference Archives

Quantifying technical debt to modernise critical systems

A data-driven approach to exposing hidden technical debt and modernizing critical legacy systems without risky rewrites.

Ejber Ozkan

Escaping the feature factory: Building strategic team identity

How to turn a ticket-driven engineering team into a strategic partner by shifting identity, metrics, and mindset toward outcomes.

Priya Athipatla

The mechanics of scaling: Why delivery slows as you grow, and what to do about it

How Cash App built a culture of shared ownership in platform engineering–where empathy, collaboration, and visibility drive developer experience and delivery velocity.

Maryia Tarpachova

Finding the 80/20: Lessons from delivering our first LLM feature

How to choose what actually matters when shipping your first LLM feature, balancing evaluation, trust, and delivery without overengineering.

Thordis Thorsteins

Inclusive leadership across cultures: Practical patterns for global engineering teams

Concrete, repeatable patterns for leading global teams across cultures, reducing friction, building trust, and helping diverse voices contribute fully.

Christopher Egemba

Things fall apart – Architecture to avoid progressive collapse

How to design systems so small failures stay contained, preventing cascading outages and large-scale architectural collapse.

Sam Newman

The story box

Learn how to use stories to improve your influence as a leader.

Michael Lopp

30 to 70 PRs a day: How we managed to not wreck our systems

In this talk, you’ll learn about ways to improve your DORA metrics to become an elite-performing team that can effectively leverage AI-assisted development, and how benefits compound exponentially from adopting the interlocking modern developer productivity and platform engineering stack.