Latest videos
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Your problem isn’t the monolith. It’s the data.
How disciplined data ownership and contracts prevent architectural decay and enable systems to evolve without traumatic rewrites.
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400 Tech Leads. Same problems. None of them technical.
Why tech leads struggle despite strong technical skills, and the small leadership shifts that remove overload, friction, and self-doubt.
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Shipping secure, reliable and high performance AI agents
A hands-on engineering guide to building AI agents that stay secure, reliable, and fast in real, high-stakes production systems.
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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.
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In partnership with HarnessThe AI capabilities that amplify your org
The 2025 DORA report marked a significant departure for the research organization, as it focused almost entirely on the impact of AI in the software development lifecycle. It’s key finding – that AI is an amplifier, for good and for bad – clearly resonated.
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In partnership with DrafttWhy software maintenance is stuck in 2015
The tech stack looks nothing like it did ten years ago, but the maintenance of these systems hasn’t kept pace, remaining slow, reactive and stressful.
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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How to navigate uncertainty as a senior individual contributor
What is the process for determining where your expertise and efforts would be most valuable?
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Unmasking Imposters by debugging doubts
Bobby D takes inspiration from the popular game “Among Us” to address the challenges engineers face in understanding their value and the importance of developing team awareness to support one another, and shares practical strategies for embracing individual strengths, fostering team collaboration, and building bridges through empathy and inclusivity.
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How to gain the right visibility across your teams as a busy manager
Having the right visibility into your teams is critical to being a supportive leader
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Working on software that is older than you
Sally Wahba shares her views on working on an older codebase. She will share her experience watching the codebase evolve from incorporating acquired startups, to consolidating code branches. She will share pain points that she found to be repeated after joining a younger company.
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Why full SDLC testing matter in your software development lifecycle
Quality and velocity” is no longer an “either-or” statement. To accommodate the demands for speed and quality, many companies today are trying to test every change using different tools throughout the software lifecycle, but the tools are isolated and don’t inform each other of a holistic strategy for quality. Thus, testing becomes a bottleneck, and it can result in fewer releases with no improvement to the customer experience. Join Sangit Patel to learn how a holistic approach can help address these market challenges.
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Team design is system design
In this presentation, Michael Newman, VP of Engineering at CodeSignal will explore Conway’s Law and how the Inverse Conway Maneuver can be used to design your organization’s communication structure to reflect the desired system structure.
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Engineering your feedback: A (quick) guide to success
As managers and leaders, giving effective feedback is crucial in order to help engineers on our teams grow and thrive in their profession. In this talk, I’ll share 3 golden rules when it comes to providing feedback that is effective.
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In partnership with Chronosphere
How Observability Can Boost Engineering Productivity
Join Chronosphere’s Field CTO, Ian Smith, to learn how cloud native observability reduces burnout and boosts engineering team productivity.
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Filling the jar of impact and trust as a Principal Engineer
Nayana Shetty shares some tips and tricks to identify rocks, pebbles and sand you can fill your jar with, ways they enable you to create impact and build trust across the organization and some common challenges you will face when you prioritize your work using this technique and ways to overcome those.
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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.
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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.
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Daring to be different: Stories and tips from a woman leader in tech: Raji Rajagopalan in conversation
How can you build an exceptional career for yourself, despite any challenges you face?
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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.
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The 9.1 magnitude meltdown at Fukushima
Nick Means takes us to mid-afternoon on Friday, March 11, 2011 when the ground in Tōhoku began to shake. To the operators at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it seemed like the shaking would never stop. The way their team operated during that fateful week has a lot to teach us about helping our own teams be at their best, both in crisis and out.
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Organizational resilience
André Kenji Horie discusses how Duolingo thinks about resilience in the workplace, the tools provided to managers to help them develop their own resilience, as well as their direct reports, lessons learned and pitfalls avoided.
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Building bridges: The art of crafting seamless partnerships between engineering, product, and design
James Stanier, Winter Wei, and Janet Balneaves join us for a panel discussion on the art of crafting seamless partnerships between engineering, product, and design.
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What to do after being laid off: Lessons on being my own CEO for a change
James Courtois shares his layoff experience. Recounting this, he shares some practical considerations and grounding thoughts that might be of use regardless of your employment situation.
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The journey of a byline
Alice Bartlett explores the journey our content takes through the many, many applications in our microservices architecture.
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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.
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How to progress as an engineer while doing what you love
Blanca Rojo Martin shares how a large organisation like UBS has created a three-level strategy for Engineers technical career progression.
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Putting down line management; returning to an individual contributor role
Caroline Handley will help you crystallise what options there are. It will clarify what actions can be taken to find out more. Whether you decide to ‘put down line management’ or not, you can make that decision in a more informed way and be more confident in your choices.
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The dark side of standardization
Samantha Schaevitz wants you to leave this talk better equipped to decide whether embarking on a standardization project is right for your stack or organization, and how to do it in a way that avoids common pitfalls along the way.
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Maximizing your impact when context-switching
Maude Lemaire spent the last few years trialing a few different ways to sustainably maximize this time by balancing productivity with a bit of mindfulness. Come learn from her (many) mistakes, and hopefully we can all feel a bit less like a Dalí painting.
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Why onboarding to a company’s legacy codebase sucks, and how to make it work for your team
Shanea Leven discusses the history and context of the problems that plague codebase onboarding. And with problems come solutions such as tips and tools that make it easier for engineers to onboard a legacy codebase.