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October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

Technical direction

Technical direction

Making better technical and architectural decisions

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.

Jonathan Maltz

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.

In partnership with Apollo

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.

Jon Thornton

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

Top Technical Direction videos

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Dealing with deprecated codebases

    No one tells developers and project managers to throw things away. We assume that because it’s cheap to keep it around, the emotional comfort is worth the tradeoff.

  • Case studies in building microservices

    Building complex software projects is an iterative process. We rarely get to spend months designing and writing a complete project plan before releasing something to our users, and no feature is ever truly finished.

  • Vault and Security as a Service

    Over the past ten years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the architecture of service-oriented systems.

  • Is Kotlin right for you?

    Kotlin sure has been receiving a lot of buzz lately, is there something to it?