Latest videos
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The accountability gap: Engineering governance for autonomous AI
This session walks through an engineering framework for accountable autonomy: a three-tier trust model that categorizes decisions by blast radius (impact and reversibility), an autonomy budget that meters agent trust with SLOs and revokes it automatically when behavior degrades, and circuit breakers that freeze an agent before a bad pattern becomes an incident.
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I thought my team knew what mattered
Why people don’t build connection to their work from what you say at all-hands, and how to translate what matters into something that sticks week to week.
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The 30 minute MBA for engineering leaders
The business fundamentals that help engineering leaders understand the financial and commercial forces that shape their work, and engage as partners rather than order-takers.
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In partnership with CodeRabbitHow can you trust your AI agents?
Agentic explainability matters more than ever.
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Refactoring LIVE – In conversation with Rands
Luca Rossi sits down with Michael Lopp, aka Rands, to explore engineering leadership in the age of AI.
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In partnership with HarnessShift to signal-driven software quality
Learn why traditional approaches to code quality are collapsing in the face of AI code generation.
Highlights from our conferences
Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.
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Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.
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Theory to action: Architecting and implementing your team operating system
Learn the theory behind the operating systems of high-performing engineering teams. Leave with a practical idea of how to design a flexible team operating system with rhythms, tools, and feedback loops for your team.
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Tracking repository health at scale
Discover how data-driven repository health tracking improves visibility, drives behavior change, and aligns engineering efforts with long-term business goals.
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How Monzo tolerates full cloud outages
Learn how Monzo built a fully independent backup bank to ensure 24/7 reliability—even during full cloud outages
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Becoming AI engineers
Discover how to build reliable, high-impact AI features—tools, patterns, and team practices that make AI integration truly transformative
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Effortless execution: Designing processes that don’t need babysitting
Discover five characteristics of team processes that can save your sanity, improve your relationships, and let your team take pride in being a well-oiled machine.
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Monolith-ifying perfectly good microservices
Learn why consolidating microservices into a Rails monolith boosted performance, reduced complexity, and helped Intercom scale more efficiently
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How to make the perfect decision
Master decision-making in software architecture with frameworks that drive alignment, reduce risk, and deliver meaningful, context-aware outcomes
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In partnership with VercelHow to maintain a codebase – when everyone can code
Learn how to maintain platform performance with machine-first observability, enabling AI agents to monitor and repair production systems.
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Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, tricks, and techniques
Unlock best practices for deploying self-hosted LLMs—optimize performance, ensure reliability, and tackle real-world challenges in critical industries
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Organizational evolution: From products to user needs
A practical guide to evolving an engineering organization from functional to product-based to user-centric – rooted in real experiences at Flo Health.
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One does not simply… rebuild a product
Get hard-won insights from Culture Amp’s bold rebuild—reviving legacy systems while elevating engineering standards and enabling future growth
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I’m 83% confident this’ll be useful
Utilizing research by professional poker player Annie Duke, we’ll explore how to better understand the ambiguity that exists in estimations engineers provide. Doing so will allow your teams to better deliver, with more accurate estimates.
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Everything you always wanted to know about game engines
Learn how to leverage game engines like Unity and Unreal to accelerate innovation in AI, robotics, simulation, and beyond
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A quick tour of delivery management (and why it matters)
What senior leaders mean by “delivery management,” why it matters, and how to improve it with practical tools and techniques.
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From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.
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Y2K: The bug that didn’t bite
Unearthing the lessons of Y2K to avoid future coding catastrophes and build more sustainable software.
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How to zoom out (and when to stop)
A practical guide for engineers and new engineering leaders on expanding their scope effectively, recognizing when to change their perspective, and maintaining the right balance between strategic thinking and technical depth.
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Dressing to the 9s
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.
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Going all-in on data products
Explore how a development team fully embraced building a data product alongside their new operational product.
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Getting excited about maintaining legacy systems
Learn how maintaining legacy systems builds real-world skills in debugging, system thinking, and mentoring others effectively.
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Documentation and AI: How to write right now
Think AI can handle your documentation? Sometimes. This talk breaks down where it helps, where it doesn’t, and what still needs the human touch.
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A safe place to land: Practical (and hyper-scale tested) advice for technical decision-making while evolving systems in place
Practical strategies for evolving systems at hyperscale while balancing innovation, stability, and reliability – featuring real-world insights from Fastly.
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In partnership with EppoFrom 0 to 10,000 experiments
Transform your team into a learning engine with experimentation, feature flags, and safer, insight-driven deployments at scale.
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Accessibility needs better marketing
Web accessibility is seen as a chore, something to suffer through. This view ignores the needs of people with disabilities and diminishes their worth as humans and worthy customers. How do we change the process?