Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

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Tips on scaling your leadership outside of your comfort zone
In this talk Michael will talk through lessons and tips he's learnt when working on a project that pushed him outside of his comfort zone, and how you can effectively utilise the skills and knowledge of those around you to build alignment when leading across a broad set of teams who are often using very different technologies.
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Debug Like a Scientist
This talk will enhance your programming toolbox for the hardest bugs. Not only this - but you'll see how to scale effective debugging to the entire team. Last but not least - you'll leave with a set of habits to share with your fellow engineers to help them step up their debugging game.
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Tactical tech: Short-term solutions for long-term strategy
Waterloo International station was opened in 1994 serving Eurostar trains through the channel tunnel to France. The station cost £130 million to build and won the EU prize for contemporary architecture but closed just 13 years later in 2007.
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Fitness Functions: Creating Consistency across Hundreds of Services
In this talk, I will show the different ways we employ fitness functions at Jimdo to keep track of the state of our over 200 services.
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Is Staff Engineering valuable at a small company?
I’ll save you from Betteridge’s law of headlines right off the bat, my answer is “It Depends”.
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Have AI Got News for You
This talk ventures beyond the surface to offer you a compelling deep dive into the nuances of working with large language models (LLMs).
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Modeling complex systems
This talk will look at some examples of these dashboards that represent the scopes of the system. Highlight how navigating between related scopes, or components, can be more powerful than standard documentation. Finally, will end with some discussion on challenges particular to multi-tenant systems.
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Navigating complex projects: Finding the right mode of operation
In this talk, I share my journey of deciding on an effective mode of operation when engaging with complex projects.
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Sunsetting legacy: Navigating the Shop merchant eligibility data pipeline migration
In this talk, I'll share the strategies used to disassemble our legacy data pipelines responsible for managing merchant eligibility on the Shop apps. Join me on a journey through our successes, challenges, and invaluable learnings in the meticulous orchestration of terminating our legacy data pipelines.
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Letting the Best Ideas Win
In my talk I will explain that this is generally a pretty bad idea; it won’t surface the best ideas and it doesn’t let more junior engineers develop their skills. Instead, I introduce some steps you can take to make sure that the idea adopted to solve a problem is the best idea available, even if you aren’t the one who came up with it. Perhaps counter-intuitively I will show how this increases your influence in your organisation and sets everyone up for success.