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“Vibe hacking” signals seismic shift for engineering leaders
Blackhat hackers have an addition to their armoury. Here’s how engineering leaders can safeguard their systems and stay on high alert.
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Is GitHub’s coding agent your newest junior dev?
GitHub’s new coding agent has some perks, but is still showing signs of significant growing pains. What are the current pain points?
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Why most developers hate their tech stack
Outdated tech stacks are a top reason for developers to quit.
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Software engineering with GenAI
A look at how AI coding tools are reshaping software engineering, how teams are adapting, and what remains unchanged in the development process.
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October 15 & 16, 2025
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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
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.
Agendas for New York events are live!
Lineup includes Addy Osmani, Kevin Goldsmith, Robin Bonatesta, and more…
New York • October 15 & 16, 2025
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Top Technical Direction videos
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vault and Security as a Service
Over the past ten years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the architecture of service-oriented systems.