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Breaking down the WordPress drama
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Build an AI roadmap that actually delivers value
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How to craft a realistic technology roadmap
Technology roadmaps are difficult things to navigate. Having a realistic approach can save you a lot of time and energy.
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Content sponsored by ChainguardDoes ‘shifting security left’ really work?
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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
Managing architecture
Lutz Hühnken talks about the importance of a strategic approach to software architecture, that prevents teams from becoming architecture firefighters, who spent an excessive amount of energy applying short-term fixes to architectural problems.
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.
Writing your technical strategy
Bruce Wang talks about Writing your technical strategy (psst, it doesn’t have to feel like a Squid Game) at LeadDev Together in February 2022.
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.
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The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
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Top Technical Direction videos
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An intro to Angular
Angular is probably the hottest frontend framework around right now. Why? What will it do for your dev team?
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An intro to Go
A talk about Go showing mistakes to be avoided when coming from other languages, discussion about strengths, and perceived shortcomings like dependency management.
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The technical journey to microservices
Microservices offer an architectural style that is flexible enough to become the de-facto approach for future enterprise software systems, but the individual journeys, and pitfalls vary dramatically from context to context.
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Tour of language landscape
There seems to be a new programming language every week, and for us busy developers we just don’t have the time to keep up with them. But have you wondered what we might have missed out on whilst we’re busy working in our language of choice?
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The importance of pragmatism when building and maintaining systems
The software industry is surrounded by complexity, with new solutions to old problems appearing daily.
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Telling stories through your commits
As your codebase and development team grow, being able to communicate how and why your code has evolved is crucial to your ability to continue to change it.
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Writing Modular CSS with CSS modules
This talk will introduce WebPack and will demonstrate how to write, bundle and use CSS Modules.
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An introduction to webhooks
In an increasingly connected world, APIs are key to great tools and effective workflows. What is better than an API? A webhook of course!