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In partnership with Augment Code
The engineer’s guide to building a software factory
Build loops, not just agents.
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In partnership with HarnessDon’t let AI model changes break your workflow
Build the tooling, guardrails, and context-rich practices to mitigate constant model turnover.
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Essential reading
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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More about Technical Direction
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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.
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Why AI economics are fundamentally broken
Making money from software is not the same equation in the AI era.
Top Technical Direction videos
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In partnership with HarnessHow to rethink software releases in the age of AI
AI has had a tremendous impact on the act of coding, but software release processes haven’t adapted to keep up. Let’s change that.
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In partnership with StoryblokWhat to do when everyone thinks they’re a developer
Shielding teams and systems from the rise of the citizen developer.
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In partnership with HarnessWhy AI necessitates a platform model
In order to get the most out of your AI investment, platform engineering is needed to tackle cross-organizational, enterprise complexity.
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In partnership with xMattersAre you ready for agentic incident response?
How engineering leaders are testing autonomous remediation in live environments — and the guardrails they rely on.
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In partnership with Dash0A blueprint for agentic observability
Fewer dashboards, more insight. Here’s how to get started with observability agents.
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In partnership with HarnessHow building greener software cuts your bottom line
How to make leadership care about cloud costs and emissions.
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In partnership with HarnessDerisking releases in the AI era
Learn the secrets of doing leading edge progressive delivery and experimentation in the real world.
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In partnership with HarnessAvoiding cost drift in the age of AI
You’ve heard of configuration drift, now cost drift could be the answer to your cloud bill woes.