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Optimizing the developer experience through collaboration
In the fast-paced world of software development, collaboration is key to building robust and innovative solutions.
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With great power comes great responsibility
Learn how today’s systems impact billions of lives and why engineers must prioritize failure safety. This talk explores driving this crucial shift in software engineering.
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Embracing engineering’s place at the forefront of business
The landscape of technology has changed over the past decade – and that change has led to the place of engineering changing in the architecture of modern businesses.
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Demystifying neurodiversity in tech with nostalgic video games
What happens when great minds DON’T think alike?
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You are here: The story of the Barbican
If you were standing in this exact spot in early 1941, you’d be surrounded by rubble. Large swaths of London lie in ruins after the months-long Blitz during World War II, and Cripplegate ward where we now sit was almost completely destroyed. The only building you’d see standing would be a heavily damaged St. Giles Church.
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Building for the new developer
So we’ve bought a Copilot license for our teams….AI in software solved, right?!
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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Documentation in Agile
We value “working software over comprehensive documentation”. That is, while there is value in documentation, we value working software more.
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Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team
The current status quo in running and scaling out teams is to have everyone work in the same office or in offices across different locations.
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Starting, executing, and landing big rewrites
There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to deliver new features because of unnecessarily complicated code.
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How to automate a11y testing
Are you still testing accessibility by hand? Or worse, have a dedicated person doing so? Stop! Now!
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How to mentor Junior Engineers
To get her foot in the door, she had to convince very smart people that she could write software because she can do ballet. It took a few tries.
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Rethinking the Developer Career Path
Our current methods for measuring a developer’s career progression are broken. At best, we count the number of days someone’s been paid to write code and massage that into a title. As a result, there’s no consensus as to what a given title means, leading to frustration for everyone.
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How tech hiring fails us all
From the outrageous to the sad, hiring experiences in tech can be really … bad! For the hiree and the hirer! From both sides of the table, Crystal has seen illegal and immoral behaviour — choices that damage companies as much as they damage individuals. Let’s do better. Please. We can improve this.
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The Inclusive Leader: Tips for Developing Diverse Engineering Teams
Managing people is hard. Managing people who aren’t like you is harder. As we push to build more diverse teams, how do we ensure everyone can succeed equally?
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Centralising the Right Things
uSwitch has a strong dev ops culture, we’ve learnt over time what should be handled by teams and what the organisation should provide.
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What engineering leaders need to know about blockchain
If you’ve not been hiding under a rock, you must have heard about Blockchain. This session will throw some light on why it matters to businesses and techies, and how is it chaining the world one block at a time.
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Lending privilege as engineering leaders
Diversity and inclusion have become hot topics in technology, but you may not know how you can make a difference. This talk will help you understand that, no matter your background, you have privilege and can lend it to marginalized groups in tech.
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First steps for tech leads
You’ve been programming for a while now. You know your way around the code, and you’re becoming a go-to for technical advice. And it looks like someone else noticed, because you’re the technical lead on your next project.
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Leading radical change as an engineering manager
February 2017 will mark a year since I started in a role aimed at radically changing how Indeed thinks about front-end engineering.
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The building built on stilts
In the summer of 1978, structural engineer William LeMessurier got a phone call that terrified him. An undergraduate student claimed that LeMessurier’s acclaimed 59-story Citicorp Center in Manhattan, just completed the year prior, was dangerously unstable under certain wind conditions. The student was right, and it was almost hurricane season.
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An introduction to polymer
As a Senior Principal Engineer for Comcast I’ve been doing web development for a long time, and over the course of my career I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with the evolution of the web platform.
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Work-life balance as an engineering leader
In this talk it is shown that some features of work addiction are similar to other addictions, and how workaholism relates to burnout, low job satisfaction, high levels of job strain and health complaints.
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Engineering retrospectives – Look back, move forward
Retrospectives are one of the most powerful tools in a team lead’s toolkit.
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An Swift introduction
Since its initial release in 2014 and subsequent open-sourcing in 2015 Swift has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world — used everywhere from mobile to Macs to microservices.
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The challenges and rewards of distributed teams
Distributed teams offer many benefits for employers and employees alike. Having a distributed team can make recruiting and retention easier, and it can help you build a diverse team.
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Creating observable microservices
Think of this talk as a Microservices 201. You know the basic of microservices and their pros and cons, but can you successfully maintain them in production?
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Finding the right ingredients for the perfect engineering team
A great team is like a great dish, balanced flavors, tastes, textures and smells combine to create something unique and delicious.
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Leading through public speaking as an engineering leader
In our work, we each have moments of saying some prepared words under a spotlight – whether it’s during team standups, giving a presentation to a client, or pitching your promotion to your boss – and yet we all have different fears about those moments.
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Rebooting culture
Camille is the former CTO at Rent the Runway, where she led the team of over 60 engineers building the world’s first short-term high fashion rental site
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How to build a fully serverless application
“Serverless”. It is already being called the buzzword of 2016. Steve is going to bring “serverless” back to reality by showing how Bustle has built a fully serverless application platform.