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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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  • Sanghamitra Goswami

    Expedition to the LLM and AI frontier

    Sanghamitra Goswami talks about how, in the wake of the ChatGPT craze, the whole world is joining hands to experience this recent AI innovation.

  • Evan

    Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT

    Evan Morikawa gives you a behind the scenes look at how we scaled ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs. A story about staying nimble enough to release new capabilities and to respond quickly to a rapidly changing industry.

  • Running large scale migrations continuously

    Running large scale migrations continuously

    Suhail Patel goes over strategies and principles to make large scale migrations less daunting, both from a technical and organisational point of view.

  • Cloud infrastructure architecture for Nubank’s global expansion

    Cloud infrastructure architecture for Nubank’s global expansion

    Lais Oliveira discusses Nubank, one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, serving over 70 million customers across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Our products and systems weren’t built to be multi-country. Rapid growth and scaling challenges drove rethinking cloud infrastructure and building a technical strategy.

  • Delivering a Digital First BBC - An Architects Perspective

    Delivering a digital first BBC – an architects perspective

    Hannes Ricklefs shares why realising big visions and missions is an exciting yet daunting task. Having worked at the intersection between Product, Delivery, Architecture and Engineering, this talk will explore what is key to continuously evolve the stack, the org, and ways of working.

  • Homebrew’s Great Migration: Moving to GitHub Packages with Zero Downtime

    Homebrew’s great migration: Moving to GitHub packages with zero downtime

    Mike McQuaid discusses the following: the key factors we evaluated to decide between the options available, how compromises were made within and between Homebrew and GitHub (my employer), what techniques we used to implement the migration by the hard deadline with zero downtime, and how to use “soft power” to affect change in your organisation without “hard power” to decide what any individual works on.

  • The journey of a byline

    The journey of a byline

    Alice Bartlett explores the journey our content takes through the many, many applications in our microservices architecture.

  • Orchestrating thousands of bots from the cloud

    Orchestrating thousands of bots from the cloud

    James Donkin talks about how we now provide an end-to-end platform for smart online grocery to some of the world’s largest grocery retailers. At the heart of our model are automated warehouses which are the most advanced of their kind. Thousands of bots collaborate seamlessly on 3D grids to fulfil customer orders.