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“Vibe hacking” signals seismic shift for engineering leaders
Blackhat hackers have an addition to their armoury. Here’s how engineering leaders can safeguard their systems and stay on high alert.
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Is GitHub’s coding agent your newest junior dev?
GitHub’s new coding agent has some perks, but is still showing signs of significant growing pains. What are the current pain points?
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From dashboard soup to observability lasagna: Building better layers
Transform chaotic dashboards into a layered observability strategy that improves reliability, streamlines incidents, and builds real on-call confidence
Editor’s picks
The quickly evolving role of QA
In fast-paced software development environments, the way you think about quality assurance needs to change.
October 15 & 16, 2025
Agendas for New York events are live! 🙌
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
Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety
Uncover the science behind code review anxiety, its cognitive triggers, and actionable strategies to reduce anxiety, fostering a healthier code review culture for all developers.
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.
Agendas for New York events are live!
Lineup includes Addy Osmani, Kevin Goldsmith, Robin Bonatesta, and more…
New York • October 15 & 16, 2025
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Utilizing invisible forces to make better decisions in software design
How our psychology affects our decision-making
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Having impact in engineering by supporting other people’s ideas
How to build an engineering organization that drives ideas from everyone in the team.
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Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision
Exploring the path to reaching an outcome
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Driving inclusion with explainable artificial intelligence
Concepts and challenges towards responsible AI
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The long tail of product features
Making your customers and partners your core assets, not your software
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Abandoning the build: when investing is the only way to scale
Giving your systems and engineers a new lease of life with an external solution
Top Software Quality Videos
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Building security into your engineering workflow
You don’t need to sacrifice delivery times when building a secure product
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In partnership with Rollbar
Introduction to Continuous Code Improvement
Join our solutions engineer to understand how we can help reduce deployment time and cost with an accuracy that you and your team can rely on.
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Decision Making for Software Engineering Teams: Francesco Strazzullo in conversation
How to be mindful on what data you need to decide on
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In partnership with GitLab
Integer overflows, bad UX, and other ways to waste $870 million
Learn how a DevSecOps mentality is intended to overcome the biases we have for simplicity in our human model of complex systems.
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To kill it with fire, or not to kill it with fire?
This talk explores the technical, organizational, cultural, and psychological factors that matter when we choose between full rewrites or incremental change.
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Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19
This talk will cover how we organized the work — human, technical, and organizational — needed to prevent outages while we strove to keep ahead of pandemic-driven explosive product growth, and we’ll apply it to future long-running, large-scale incidents.
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Sculpting data for machine learning
In the contemporary world of machine learning algorithms – data is the new oil
