CTO Archives

Becoming an AI Engineering company

Learn how to operationalize AI across your organization to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and stay ahead in a competitive market

Ben Seymour

The million dollar bug: Quality leadership lessons from costly failures

CrowdStrike lost $5.4B, Sonos stumbled into a $500M crisis – and they're not alone. Learn battle-tested leadership strategies to protect your organization from quality catastrophes that can shake your business to its core.

Christine Pinto

Monolith-ifying perfectly good microservices

Learn why consolidating microservices into a Rails monolith boosted performance, reduced complexity, and helped Intercom scale more efficiently

Brian Scanlan

In partnership with Vercel

How to maintain a codebase – when everyone can code

Learn how to maintain platform performance with machine-first observability, enabling AI agents to monitor and repair production systems.

Matt Collier

Organizational evolution: From products to user needs

A practical guide to evolving an engineering organization from functional to product-based to user-centric – rooted in real experiences at Flo Health.

Eugene Sergueev

From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play

Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn't exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn't.

Birgitta Böckeler

Dressing to the 9s

Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn't exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn't.

Mark Robinson

A safe place to land: Practical (and hyper-scale tested) advice for technical decision-making while evolving systems in place

Practical strategies for evolving systems at hyperscale while balancing innovation, stability, and reliability – featuring real-world insights from Fastly.