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Inside the tech overhaul of Big Brother’s voting system
The real-life issues engineers faced behind the scenes while implementing a user verification solution for Big Brother.
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The CrowdStrike disaster is a lesson about testing
What’s been dubbed the world’s biggest IT outage should be a wakeup call to the industry.
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How low (level) can you go
Learn how mastering low-level systems and components can make you the go-to engineer for tough problems and drive product success.
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How test coverage can improve code quality
As teams get bigger and the need for faster velocity increases, code quality can be difficult to uphold. Use these techniques from Michael Tweed, a principal software engineer at Skyscanner, to help.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
Essential reading
How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process
Taking code quality beyond documentation and into the fabric of your team’s work.
On our Software Quality playlist
Ways your teams can (realistically) prioritize code quality
Code matters – learn how to create a culture of quality in your organisation
Metrics – a primer, to drive precision, speed, quality & impact
As managers or senior leaders, this talk will give you a primer for leveraging metrics for the objectives you seek, outcomes you desire, and the behaviors you want to incentivize or disincentivize within your engineering organization.
A guide to creating a great code documentation culture
If your teams are struggling with code documentation, watch this on-demand webinar, where our panel of engineering leaders will discuss best practices and strategies to get started. Code documentation is often viewed as a necessary evil by development teams. There’s no doubt that mastering the art of creating…
Building a better testing culture
How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?
Take back control of code quality
In this talk, Joel Chippindale shares stories from his experiences in leading engineering teams that illustrate the dynamics between team members and with stakeholders that lead teams to lose control of code quality.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
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Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
What does a good decision look like? How do you get there?
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Designing for money and happiness in large-scale open source
Making the happiness and satisfaction of your community a design requirement
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Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot
How to recover really quickly from failing really slowly
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Carbon proxies: measuring the greenness of your application
How environmentally-friendly is your software?
Top Software Quality Videos
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Streamlining the management of multiple websites and apps
Prepare your team to work effectively across contexts
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Establishing experimentation as a core part of your project workflow
Gain actionable insights from your users and improve engineering velocity
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Living without pre-production environments
Historically when we developed large monolithic applications we had several ‘lower’ environments such as dev, test, staging, pre-prod for verifying different stages of our development life cycle. These were particularly used for manual testing – integration testing, gatekeeping, acceptance testing.
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How simplifying software can save your engineering teams’ time
We’re conditioned to think from an early age that exciting things are the best. That attitude can extend to engineering, too.
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Scaling performance at the scale of Slack
One of the major challenges faced by teams working on high growth product is of performance. Systems that are built for a given scale of users often fail to deliver the necessary throughput when run with orders of magnitude of load more than what they are built for. Software teams have historically resorted to a myriad set of ways in scaling performance.
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Strategies for making impossible decisions
Being faced with an important choice that feels impossible to know the answer to is stressful! This comes up a lot when making business decisions, but also applies to technical choices (e.g. “should my company run 100% on AWS” or “is serverless a fad or a great idea?”).
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Writing effective technical documentation
Documentation can make a big difference. Internal documentation can speed your team up and makes it easier for new engineers to get up and running. External documentation reduces time spent on support questions, and makes your product more usable.
