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Technical Direction

Making better technical and architectural decisions

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    Does ‘shifting security left’ really work?

    “Shifting security left” is a term in modern DevOps that refers to the practice of integrating security measures earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Lutz Hühnken

Managing architecture

Lutz Hühnken talks about the importance of a strategic approach to software architecture, that prevents teams from becoming architecture firefighters, who spent an excessive amount of energy applying short-term fixes to architectural problems.

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.

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Writing your technical strategy

Bruce Wang talks about Writing your technical strategy (psst, it doesn’t have to feel like a Squid Game) at LeadDev Together in February 2022.

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.

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Top Technical Direction videos

  • Indu Alagarsamy

    How to make better modernization decisions

    Indu Alagarsamy shares some of the methods she has been using such as Service Blueprints, Wardley Mapping, and Architecture/Product Decision Tracking Framework to get buy-in collaboratively.

  • Birgitta Boeckeler

    AI for software development: A reality check

    Birgitta Boeckeler gives an overview of what is actually possible today and walks through four capabilities of Large Language Models that can help us be more effective at software delivery.

  • Maria Gomez Aguirre and Priyanka Syal

    Responsible AI / Ethics in AI in engineering

    Maria Gomez Aguirre and Priyanka Syal share insights on how to adapt to this changing landscape and factor in the human impact of our work while building systems and products with AI.

  • Lutz Hühnken

    Managing architecture

    Lutz Hühnken talks about the importance of a strategic approach to software architecture, that prevents teams from becoming architecture firefighters, who spent an excessive amount of energy applying short-term fixes to architectural problems.

  • Anna and Giorgos

    Native to flutter: A tale of Tide’s transformation

    Anna Leushchenko and Giorgos Ampavis are here to share their transformation journey: how they upskilled their native mobile engineers to Dart and Flutter, migrated their codebase to the new tech stack, and rolled out the new product to their users, ensuring the best possible transition. They will highlight the challenges they faced, the solutions they implemented, and the objectives they have achieved for their business and engineering team.

  • Rob

    Crafting an effective technical strategy: Business success through targeted investment

    Led by Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI, this session dives deep into the realm of technical strategy. It explores why technical strategy matters, how to align it with business objectives, and how to measure the impact.

  • Jeff

    GraphQL is a superpower for your product manager and designer

    Jeff Auriemma talks about how good tools help get a job done faster and better, transforming the entire end-to-end workflow from concept to deployment.

  • Thayse

    From monolith to micro: How to break apart a front-end application

    Thayse Onofrio goes through the steps to split a front-end application. We’ll discuss techniques to disintegrate the code and how to do that safely without impacting the production environment.