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The rise of coding with parallel agents
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Clear technical vision is the key for aligned growth
Technical visions are the guardrails that keep decision-making aligned across orgs.
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How to build an effective technical strategy
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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.
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The importance of pragmatism when building and maintaining systems
The software industry is surrounded by complexity, with new solutions to old problems appearing daily.
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Telling stories through your commits
As your codebase and development team grow, being able to communicate how and why your code has evolved is crucial to your ability to continue to change it.
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Writing Modular CSS with CSS modules
This talk will introduce WebPack and will demonstrate how to write, bundle and use CSS Modules.
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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.