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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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Managing expectations on time estimates with probabilistic forecasting
Data-driven decisions with Monte Carlo simulations
Top Software Quality Videos
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Introduction to functional programming
Expressions are the most basic form of human interaction! Programming languages are trending more towards using expressions rather than procedural statements, adopting the declarative paradigm.
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The benefits of delivering imperfect software
We all want to deploy the best software possible to delight our customers and please our product owners. There’s always one more feature, another performance improvement, and code we just wish we wrote better.
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The possibility of AI-powered Javascript apps
There are many exciting things happening with AI, from which, until recently, JavaScript developers were largely shut out. But things are changing, if you can do `npm install @tensorflow/tfjs` or make an API call, you can now do AI.
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Identifying and articulating the role of AI in your software design process
We’ve all read the articles and got excited by technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, Tensorflow, Panda and NumPy. A lot of us are also looking at how to incorporate these technologies into our toolset and in the software we are building.
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Rejecting the black box: examining the implications and practicalities of testing AI
There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) will have on testing. There’s a new generation of testing tools being developed that employ AI with promises of making testing much more efficient for us.
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Navigating front-end architecture like a Neopian
Over the past few years, I’ve gained expertise in front-end web architecture. I’ve done this work at Indiegogo, Headspace, for my open source mental health project if-me.org, and in my current role at Mailchimp.
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Designing software to maximize developer productivity
Having worked extensively in the Shopify codebase, one of the largest rails apps in existence, I have experienced firsthand some of the downsides of working in monolithic codebases.
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Principles for managing product quality
Keeping an application stable starts off being simple since your codebase is small, there are few points of failure, and you can easily reason about the implications of code changes.