
Latest videos
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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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In partnership with Revelo
Engineering leadership playbook, 2025: Three lessons every engineering leader needs this year
Learn three key lessons to lead AI adoption, build remote teams, and strengthen engineering culture.
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Global teams, seamless success: Managing diverse engineers for high-impact deliveries
Learn how to tackle the real challenges of managing global engineering teams – avoiding miscommunication, preventing team friction, and ensuring accountability – so you can drive on-time deliveries and build a motivated team that delivers quality software.
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Exploring the (testing) pyramid – An expedition towards more accessibility
Explore how applying the testing pyramid to accessibility can streamline development. Learn methods to lower costs, speed feedback, and enhance both product quality and inclusivity.
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Exhausted but not burned out: A manager’s story of how to get the team through a tough project
Discover strategies for leading high-stress projects without burnout. Learn how prioritising team well-being, resilience, and self-compassion fosters sustainable success even under intense pressure.
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Tech odyssey: The epic saga of a mega migration to temporal
Embark on a journey through the challenges and triumphs of a major tech migration, revealing strategies for scaling, continuous development, and operational excellence in platform transformation.
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There and back again – A cautionary tale about entering middle management
Explore the realities of middle management through a journey of promotion, stress, and self-reflection, offering guidance on finding the right leadership path.
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.
view all videos from staffplus london

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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Creating processes that don’t impede autonomy
Many factors contribute to developer happiness. However, as engineers, we’re often singularly obsessed with the idea that our job satisfaction comes solely from solving only the most interesting technical challenges.
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Feedback models for engineering teams
Feedback is one of the most important skills when collaborating with others. Giving and receiving feedback with honesty, integrity and empathy is hard. Doing so consistently takes practice and requires learning and practising feedback and listening techniques.
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An introduction to webhooks
In an increasingly connected world, APIs are key to great tools and effective workflows. What is better than an API? A webhook of course!
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The journey from monolith to microservices
Are you starting a new application and wondering whether to go with a monolith or take the microservices path?
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Seven key considerations in early development
It’s empowering for developers and other people involved in the inception of a project to have tools for making the project better long-term.
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What I wish I knew as a first time Tech Lead
The path from being a developer to a Tech Lead seems like a scary transition. As a developer, you could focus on constantly learning new tools, libraries, frameworks and programming languages.
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Managing everyday BAU as a tech lead
As a developer you are used to certain constants in your life such as battling with a compiler/interpreter or debugging a production issue only to discover a single, tiny error.
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How to estimate as as an engineering leader
Estimating time is like packing for a long holiday. No matter how hard you try, you always feel like you forgot something important.
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Communicating as an engineering leader
To build great teams you need to understand people. One of your core skills as a leader should be the ability to have effective conversations with your team, the rest of your organisation, and your customers.
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Improving your feedback loop on engineering teams
The feedback loop is easily the most effective way to improve individual and team performance.
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Prioritising personal development as en engineering leader
What should I focus on to become a better leader and to better support my team? Where do I find the time to keep my technical skills relevant? How do I learn more about the business so I can understand the needs of the organisation better?
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5 Features of a Good API
Everyone is writing APIs from micro-services through to full applications, but what makes a good one?
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Leadership Lessons from the Agile Manifesto
Whether you’re a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or Project Manager for an engineering team, you probably weren’t handed a leadership instruction manual when you were given your first team to lead.
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Running An Effective Mobile Engineering Team
Organisations often worry about their mobile teams. Sometimes they are a bit separate. There’s often this inexplicable hostility to mentions of “React Native”.
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Navigating different communication styles as engineers
Have you ever been told you’re “too direct,” or feel like you don’t understand what others want? Or on the other side, do you think others are often too confrontational?
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The Original Skunk Works
Long before Agile and Lean became buzzwords, a scrappy group of aerospace engineers at Lockheed’s Skunk Works were using similar practices to produce some of the most amazing aircraft ever built.
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Failing smarter and learning faster in engineering
Software development has been evolving. When I started in the industry, working at companies like Microsoft, we would bet many person-years of development and many millions of dollars into the development of products that would sometimes be hits and sometimes be total duds
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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.