New York

October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

Technical direction

Technical direction

Making better technical and architectural decisions

  • In partnership with Harness

    Escaping your DIY Feature Flags

    Feature flags, how difficult can it be? But now it’s day two, and suddenly you’re in the feature flag business.

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

  • 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?

  • A tour of Apache Pulsar

    Apache Pulsar is a distributed pub/sub system develop at Yahoo! This talk covers Apache Pulsar’s underlying design and protocol level semantics.

  • Building a data infrastructure

    Your team needs data so they can make the right decisions. Unless they have the right data in the right place, they’re left to act on intuition, opinions and hunches.

  • Planning, executing, and landing refactoring

    Slack is the leading global collaboration hub that makes people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive.

  • Why GraphQL?

    If you don’t know much about GraphQL, you probably just identify it as the hip, shiny new thing companies are adopting to replace their RESTful APIs.