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Latest videos

  • Modeling complex systems

    This talk will look at some examples of these dashboards that represent the scopes of the system. Highlight how navigating between related scopes, or components, can be more powerful than standard documentation. Finally, will end with some discussion on challenges particular to multi-tenant systems.

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  • Navigating complex projects: Finding the right mode of operation

    In this talk, I share my journey of deciding on an effective mode of operation when engaging with complex projects.

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  • Sunsetting legacy: Navigating the Shop merchant eligibility data pipeline migration

    In this talk, I’ll share the strategies used to disassemble our legacy data pipelines responsible for managing merchant eligibility on the Shop apps. Join me on a journey through our successes, challenges, and invaluable learnings in the meticulous orchestration of terminating our legacy data pipelines.

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  • Letting the Best Ideas Win

    In my talk I will explain that this is generally a pretty bad idea; it won’t surface the best ideas and it doesn’t let more junior engineers develop their skills. Instead, I introduce some steps you can take to make sure that the idea adopted to solve a problem is the best idea available, even if you aren’t the one who came up with it. Perhaps counter-intuitively I will show how this increases your influence in your organisation and sets everyone up for success.

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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 talk by Emily Thomas in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

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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Smruti Patel

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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  • A tour of Apache Pulsar

    Apache Pulsar is a distributed pub/sub system develop at Yahoo! This talk covers Apache Pulsar’s underlying design and protocol level semantics.

  • Creating learning workshops for developers

    Interactive workshops are the best way to engage teams and individuals and help everyone remember lessons learned.

  • Building a data infrastructure

    Your team needs data so they can make the right decisions. Unless they have the right data in the right place, they’re left to act on intuition, opinions and hunches.

  • Planning, executing, and landing refactoring

    Slack is the leading global collaboration hub that makes people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive.

  • Why GraphQL?

    If you don’t know much about GraphQL, you probably just identify it as the hip, shiny new thing companies are adopting to replace their RESTful APIs.

  • Everything You Need to Know About OpenAPI 3.0 in Ten Minutes or Less

    The OpenAPI spec (formerly known as Swagger Spec) is now in version 3.0 … but what does that mean to you?

  • How to Design Systems and Processes Teams Actually Follow

    When we work alone, it’s easy to make sure things come out the way we think is best. But what happens when we need to get an entire team to agree on — and actually use — best practices? What if we have to convince an entire company?

  • How to hold career path conversations with developers

    Our industry is not the best at preparing developers to grow their careers when they reach the critical point when they have to decide between continuing to work as an individual contributor or moving into management.

  • Strategies for reducing the fragility of your systems

    Have you ever worked on a computer system that was so fragile it was frightening to make changes to? Maybe it was challenging to deploy, difficult to delete code, or changing one piece would cause surprising cascading failures.

  • Intersectional & Inclusive Standards for Developers

    Give a developer readable code and they can code for a day, teach a developer best practices and coding standards and they can be a valuable addition to any engineering team.

  • Increasing code testability

    We all, for the most part, invest time in learning new front-end technologies but how much time if any do we put into client-side testing?

  • Creating Architecture and Teams at Less-than-Google Scale

    Facebook, Google, Uber, LinkedIn, and friends are the rarefied heights of software engineering.

  • Better Incident Management to Reduce MTTR

    A skilled Incident Commander can improve time to resolution and reduce everyone’s stress.

  • Building a culture of continuous delivery

    More rapidly then ever, companies are adopting new technologies, tooling and practices, that allow them to be so agile that it changes their culture overnight. Disruptors are being disrupted within the year.

  • Avoiding common mistakes as a new engineering manager

    In this talk we’ll walk through a hypothetical worst case scenario for a new manager and then walk through specifics on how you can avoid the Spiral.

  • Creating effective engineering internships

    This talk is based on a series of experiences I had working with my interns, sharing their experiences on other internships and improving my methods so we could take most of our 12 weeks together.

  • Improving Reliability with Error Budgets and Site Reliability Engineering

    Reliability is a critical feature of most software, and maintenance rather than initial development predominates the cost of software. Yet, a large number of development teams treat operations as an afterthought instead of integrating operations into their development processes.

  • Revitalizing a cross-functional product organization

    The product and engineering teams at every company size have the same goals: positive team health, high-velocity shipping, and strategic execution.

  • Collaborative debugging on engineering teams

    Teams that write code together should be able to debug issues together. But while we think a lot about engineering collaboratively, we rarely develop processes for debugging collaboratively.

  • How to run awesome tech internships!

    The tech industry has a lot of hiring to do. According to the Tech City 2017 report, “the digital sector is creating jobs 2X faster than the non-digital sector”. At the same time, the tech industry is lacking ways of helping those in underrepresented groups get their first tech role. A possible solution to both of these issues? More internships!

  • An Introduction to ReasonML

    ReasonML is a new syntax for OCaml, developed by Facebook with a heavy influence from JavaScript.

  • An intro to functional programming

    Functional programming makes it easier to write concurrent, testable and expressive code. Even if you’re working in the object-oriented or imperative paradigm, you can benefit a lot by learning functional programming.

  • Supporting the next generation of developers

    Life as a “junior” developer can be intense, overwhelming, but rewarding. How can juniors move on to the next level?

  • Strategies to Edit Production Data

    At some point, we all find ourselves at a SQL prompt making edits to the production database. We know it’s a bad practice and we always intend to put in place safer infrastructure before we need to do it again — what does a better system actually look like?