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What leaders get wrong about the latent cost of technical debt
Where do leaders go wrong with tackling tech debt?
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In partnership with Uplevel
Measure first, migrate later: Lessons from a 230% velocity boost
Matt Buckley, VP of Engineering at Avalara, shares how his team used data to modernize legacy deployment processes.
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Turning multi-agent AI into strategic business leverage
Using AI to help bolster business strategy, not just for the sake of it.
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In partnership with HarnessWhere AI can supercharge DevOps
The race is on to infuse DevOps workflows with AI, but where does it actually help?
Editor’s picks
October 15-17, 2025
Big names joining the New York lineup! 🔥
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.
Agendas for New York events are live!
Lineup includes Addy Osmani, Kevin Goldsmith, Robin Bonatesta, and more…
New York • October 15 & 16, 2025
More about Technical Direction
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Why OpenFeature is central to modern feature management
Get to know the open source project changing the game for feature flags.
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What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and are you ready for it?
Is RAG the answer to all your generative AI hallucination problems?
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How to standardize codebases across teams
As your organization scales it can become more and more difficult to maintain standards across code bases. Here’s how to overcome the hurdles.
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Minimum viable architecture is the backbone of a successful product
Finding the right product fit is difficult, but minimum viable architecture could be a key tool to help you on your journey.
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Why full stack teams are not the answer
Find the problem you’re trying to solve and then go beyond roles. Thinking beyond your core skills may just be the answer.
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Generate buy-in with compelling engineering strategies
Pitching a new technical direction requires different approaches depending on whether you’re addressing executives or your team.
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PostgreSQL: The database that quietly ate the world
How the open source database slowly but surely infiltrated the enterprise as a go-to, developer-friendly choice.
Top Technical Direction videos
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In partnership with ChainguardDoes ‘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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Beyond the hype: Practical steps to establishing and scaling your data & ML team
Discover how to build and scale a data team, implement practical machine learning, and drive success with data-driven decision-making in a growing company.
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In partnership with SpaceliftWhat is developer self-service, and does your org need it?
In this webinar, we hear from engineering leaders who have built developer self service ecosystems, and lessons they learned along the way.
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In partnership with Split by HarnessSpeed vs safety: Should we rethink the way we release software?
In this webinar, we ask if it’s possible for engineering leaders to prioritize speed of delivery and proper safety practices.
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In partnership with incident.ioHow does context switching impact team productivity?
In this panel, we’ll dig into why unmanaged context switching is detrimental, and ways you can help developers handle interruptions, and reach (and maintain) a state of focus and flow.
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In partnership with HarnessHow can AI actually help your teams?
In this webinar, our panelists dig into the cultural and technical issues that arise around the topic of AI, and uncover its most useful applications across the SDLC.
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In partnership with HarnessHow to identify and fix CI pipeline problems
Our panel of engineering leaders will discuss how you can identify and remedy the most common CI pipeline difficulties, and how you can make sure they aren’t blocking your teams.
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In partnership with Apollo
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.