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How Jit overcame developer resistance to shift to Cursor
Israeli startup Jit overcame engineer pushback and boosted productivity by transitioning from JetBrains to the AI-powered coding assistant Cursor.
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Is AI-assisted coding an incident magnet?
Now that AI-assisted code is making its way into systems, should we be worried about how it affects SRE?
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AI, platform engineering, or DX? How to choose where to invest
With so many opportunities on offer in the market right now, how can leaders make sure they’re investing in the right thing?
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In partnership with HarnessHow better developer experience drives results
Why the path to faster releases and innovation starts with putting developers first.
Editor’s picks
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
Speakers Gergely Orosz, Camille Fournier
and Lara Hogan confirmed
Essential reading
How to build an effective technical strategy
Building a tech strategy requires a lot of moving parts. Learn about what routes to take and whether decisions should be top-down.
On our Technical Direction playlist
Modernizing legacy systems: A technical strategy for evolving monoliths into modern architectures at HelloFresh
Gain insights into transforming legacy systems into scalable architectures, with practical strategies for balancing stability, managing technical debt, and enabling growth opportunities at HelloFresh.
Technical Vision vs. Technical Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Jonathan Maltz digs into the nuts and bolts of setting a successful technical strategy. Startin by talking about the difference between technical vision and technical strategy.
How to implement platform engineering at scale
In this webinar, we’ll hear from enterprise engineering leaders who’ve overcome cultural barriers and team silos, and successfully adopted platform engineering practices in their orgs.
Good technical debt
Jon Thornton discusses how this framework was used to rapidly build and ship Squarespace’s Email Campaigns product in less than 15 months. Along the way, you’ll get several practical guidelines for how tech debt can supercharge your technical investments.
Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy
Having a defined tech strategy creates alignment and keeps everyone on the same page. So how can you ensure yours is most effective? Panelists Anna Shipman, Randy Shoup, Papanii Nene Okai, Nimisha Asthagiri and Anand Mariappan share their tips.
The festival of engineering leadership
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
More about Technical Direction
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Living with legacy: landing boring change smoothly
How to safely and effectively decommission legacy
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The thin line between technology advocacy and ideology
Exploring the biases we hold about technologies
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Measuring and improving the efficiency of software delivery
Which metrics are right for your organization?
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Managing technical risk
Understanding the motivations behind an engineer’s desire to affect your tech stack
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Conversations you need to have before moving from monoliths to microservices
Are you making the move for the right reasons?
Top Technical Direction videos
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Lessons learned from refactors and rearchitectures
This talk will walk you through the best -and worst- practices Josh has seen over the years from both successful and unsuccessful efforts in development velocity.
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Explaining distributed systems like I’m five
In this talk, Michele will look at many easy examples of how a distributed architecture could virtually scale infinitely, always explaining this… like he is five!
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Do you really need a platform team?
In this talk, George discusses the right time to build a platform team to then explore a team’s organisational structure to be able to support this team and what type of engineers you will need to do this.
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The database trends that are transforming your database infrastructure forever
Let’s talk about the trends in open source software and tell you what you need to know about how to manage the new multi-verse of data.
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Decision making in black box scenarios
In this talk, Boyan will go through common black box scenarios and provide advice on how to deal with them.
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Wrangling Kubernetes into a developer friendly cloud platform
This talk will take a look at how one can use Kubernetes and abstract its primitives to build a developer-friendly cloud platform.
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Towards global and human-centered explanations for machine learning models
In this talk, Carla presents the existing literature and contributions already done in the field of XAI, including a prospect toward what is yet to be reached.
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Trends in Cloud-Native Performance & Efficiency
In this talk, Melanie discusses the significant innovation in Cloud technologies from the processors at the bottom of the stack all the way up through the software at the top of the stack.