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Why AI economics are fundamentally broken
Making money from software is not the same equation in the AI era.
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If 95% of generative AI pilots fail, what’s going wrong?
Learning the right lessons from that MIT study
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“Trial by fire” is destroying your incident response
The worst time to learn about observability is during an outage.
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In partnership with HarnessHow AI is increasing systems resiliency
Facing more code than ever, learn the resiliency best practices used by SREs, including where AI can help
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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 2 & 3, 2026
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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Simplify streaming application development: A declarative approach at Airbnb
This talk discusses the growing importance of streaming applications in today’s tech landscape and the engineering challenges involved, such as handling multiple data sources and complex transformations.
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The (big) picture of debt
What is the true cost of a choice to e.g. share a database, and what does it take to change it? When is the right time to tackle something like this, and how can we tell? Tali shares experiences with these questions that will set you up for success with your own enormous debt payment.
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When to know you’ve outgrown your monolith and what to do about it
This talk will dive into the most ambitious tech debt paydown project that was ever undertaken at Stripe.
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Reducing infrastructure cost during development and in production
Sally shares lessons learned from her experience at different companies to reduce costs from the product development stage to running a service in production.
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Building products is a team sport: Cultivating effective engineering-product partnerships
With new AI developments happening almost every day, team roadmaps evolve fast to adapt to the product and business needs; this requires a close partnership between engineering and product leaders.
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In partnership with HarnessDoes your org need platform engineering?
The panel digs into what the approach looks like in practice, and ask whether platform engineering really holds the key to unlocking happy and productive teams. You will leave this session with a better understanding of what platform engineering really is, how it relates to developer happiness, and whether it’s the right route to go down for your org.
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In partnership with ChronosphereMaking cloud native work for your org
How can enterprises make the leap to cloud native? What do they need to know?
