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Developers on the frontline of the SaaS replacement wave
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is under threat.
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In partnership with ChainguardHow to build trust into your AI agents
The habits engineering leaders need to scale agentic AI, without scaling risk.
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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.


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What Tailwind teaches us about open source in the age of AI
The rise of AI coding tools is a stress test on open source software business models.
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The 3 tenets of a usable vision
Making your vision believable, motivating, and attainable is what drives team momentum.
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OpenAI report: Enterprise AI is still in the “early innings”
Insights into AI usage from 1 million business customers.
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Why Zig is moving on from GitHub
A scathing review has broader implications for AI use by major platforms.
Top Technical Direction videos
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The mechanics of scaling: Why delivery slows as you grow, and what to do about it
In this talk, I will show how rising incidents, fragile systems, slower delivery and constant firefighting are often signs of hitting systemic limits rather than execution failure.
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Things fall apart – Architecture to avoid progressive collapse
How to design systems so small failures stay contained, preventing cascading outages and large-scale architectural collapse.
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In partnership with GitkrakenMake AI productivity gains stick
How to build a measurement framework for what comes after AI adoption.
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In partnership with QodoIs AI killing your software quality standards?
Maintaining code quality in an AI-first world.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitWhat to do when there’s too much code to review
AI coding tools and agents are pushing organizations to produce more code than ever, but with mostly the same number of humans to review. Something’s got to give.
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In partnership with xMattersYour blueprint for automated incident recovery
Learn how high-performing teams are orchestrating incident response for more rapid recovery.
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In partnership with HarnessCase Study: Feature Flags IRL
Learn how this ecommerce company increased mobile conversions by 30% with careful, rollbackable experiments.
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In partnership with CircleCIHow to get leadership buy-in for technical initiatives
Learn how to translate technical initiatives into executive decisions in this interactive workshop with CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber.
