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Why everyone’s suddenly talking about AI agents
What exactly are AI agents and how are they different from AI assistants?
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Should JavaScript really be split in two?
A radical new proposal for JavaScript has divided opinion over who stands to benefit.
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Learning to trust generative AI
Love it or loathe it, engineering leaders have to learn to live with generative AI, but can you ever really trust the model?
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From cost to impact: Leading through infrastructure investment decisions
This session explores tools like SLOs, KPI Trees, and the FinOps culture to make cost management a shared responsibility across the organization.
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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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Top Technical Direction videos
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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!
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The journey from monolith to microservices
Are you starting a new application and wondering whether to go with a monolith or take the microservices path?
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Starting, executing, and landing big rewrites
There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to deliver new features because of unnecessarily complicated code.
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What engineering leaders need to know about blockchain
If you’ve not been hiding under a rock, you must have heard about Blockchain. This session will throw some light on why it matters to businesses and techies, and how is it chaining the world one block at a time.
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An introduction to polymer
As a Senior Principal Engineer for Comcast I’ve been doing web development for a long time, and over the course of my career I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with the evolution of the web platform.
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An Swift introduction
Since its initial release in 2014 and subsequent open-sourcing in 2015 Swift has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world — used everywhere from mobile to Macs to microservices.
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Creating observable microservices
Think of this talk as a Microservices 201. You know the basic of microservices and their pros and cons, but can you successfully maintain them in production?
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How to build a fully serverless application
“Serverless”. It is already being called the buzzword of 2016. Steve is going to bring “serverless” back to reality by showing how Bustle has built a fully serverless application platform.