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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.
The festival for modern engineering leadership
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More about Technical Direction
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If 95% of generative AI pilots fail, what’s going wrong?
Learning the right lessons from that MIT study
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“Trial by fire” is destroying your incident response
The worst time to learn about observability is during an outage.
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The rise of coding with parallel agents
Exponents see it as the future of software development. Do they have a point?
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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 prepare for AI agents
How leaders can prepare with governance, culture, and a roadmap for responsible adoption.
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Lessons learned launching an MCP server
Steps you can follow if you’re thinking about launching your own MCP server.
Top Technical Direction videos
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In partnership with GitkrakenHow to measure the business impact of AI
The CFO conversation is coming. Here’s how to be ready.
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In partnership with CauselyWhat’s your telemetry data really trying to tell you?
Data alone was never enough. Here’s how to start surfacing real context from dashboards, instead of just watching the alerts pile up.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployWhy good teams rely on bad workarounds
Messy workarounds aren’t a symptom of careless teams, but of delivery pipelines that aren’t fit for purpose. Here’s how to root out the unnecessary friction.
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In partnership with PostmanHow to avoid platform engineering anti-patterns
What to do when your “golden paths” aren’t being used.
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In partnership with ChainguardRooting out sneaky sources of toil
What to do next when unplanned work is killing velocity.
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In partnership with Dash0Are you ready for agentic observability?
Designing for observability in the age of AI.
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In partnership with FusionAuthUser authorization just got 10x harder
What your old permissions model misses when AI agents are your users.
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In partnership with PagerDutyGet smarter with every incident
This panel discussion is for SREs, platform, and DevOps leaders who are looking for strategies to make on-call feel more sustainable and effective. We’ll show you how to break that reactive loop, and the emerging tools and practices to help make your teams, and systems, smarter.