Latest videos
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We brought AI into our sprints, here’s what changed
Explore how integrating AI into product sprints changed team habits, improved delivery, and revealed what works and what breaks in practice.
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The altitude slider: Knowing when to dive into code vs. drive the strategy
Practical cues and rituals that help senior ICs oscillate between architectural vision and hands-on execution.
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Are we arguing or are we architecting?
Guiding technology decisions at scale is daunting for senior ICs. Spirited debates often feel like conflict, but they’re crucial. Learn to turn these clashes into collaborative, well-informed decisions. Are we arguing or architecting?
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The Pragmatic Engineer live podcast: How AI is changing engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar
Listen to a candid chat exploring Shopify’s AI strategy, remote velocity, and a unique approach to career growth.
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In partnership with VercelBridging the gap between requirements and technical detail
How to translate business needs into a clear technical roadmap? Leave ambiguity at the door
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Software engineering with GenAI
A look at how AI coding tools are reshaping software engineering, how teams are adapting, and what remains unchanged in the development process.
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From dashboard soup to observability lasagna: Building better layers
Transform chaotic dashboards into a layered observability strategy that improves reliability, streamlines incidents, and builds real on-call confidence
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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Getting your engineers on board with observability
Do your engineers have visibility into your systems?
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Building a successful and sustainable CI/CD pipeline
Ship faster with an effective deployment strategy.
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Luminary Interview with Diane Tang
As you grow as a technical leader, identifying career paths and opportunities can be difficult and you can easily get stuck without knowing what it takes to get you to the next level. So as a Senior IC, how do you get here? What is the job like? How do you map your career map?
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Luminary Interview with Lea Kissner
As you grow as a technical leader, identifying career paths and opportunities can be difficult and you can easily get stuck without knowing what it takes to get you to the next level.
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Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight: selling the value of investment
This talk will help you understand and sell the value of investment work so that you can collaborate with non-engineers to get it prioritized.
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So you’re Staff+ … now what?
This talk will cover how to define your development journey as a Senior IC, figuring out what you should be working on, how to set your goals, and keep track of your progress.
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Added to the List: How to build technical domain expertise
In this talk, we go over tips on how to land an opportunity that allows for technical domain exploration, how to efficiently learn from the experience, and how to utilize your new domain expertise for career growth.
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In partnership with Shopify
No more ad-hoc requests!* From data service to data product teams
In this talk, I’ll walk through what it would take to achieve this for your organization. If you’re a data or engineering leader and have struggled with managing internal work in progress of your data teams, this talk is for you.
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In partnership with GitLab
Integer overflows, bad UX, and other ways to waste $870 million
Learn how a DevSecOps mentality is intended to overcome the biases we have for simplicity in our human model of complex systems.
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Navigating the manager <> senior IC relationship
In this panel, we’ll explore the senior IC manager relationship, thinking about how to create a mutually beneficial partnership.
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To kill it with fire, or not to kill it with fire?
This talk explores the technical, organizational, cultural, and psychological factors that matter when we choose between full rewrites or incremental change.
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Technical strategy power chords
This talk will be most useful for folks just getting started with technical strategy, but even virtuosos may get a useful tip or two.
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Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19
This talk will cover how we organized the work — human, technical, and organizational — needed to prevent outages while we strove to keep ahead of pandemic-driven explosive product growth, and we’ll apply it to future long-running, large-scale incidents.
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Project Execution: Setting-up a cross-team project for success
In this panel, we’ll be focusing on successful strategies for landing big projects. We’ll discuss the principles of how to plan, conceptualize, and deliver big projects.
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Role and Influence: The IC trajectory beyond Staff
As you become an increasingly senior IC, subtle changes in the scope of your role shape the kinds of influence you can have and are expected to have
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Live long and prosper as a senior IC
In this chat, we’ll explore how Vulcan logic can inform communicating and acting ethically.
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What is senior IC? Flavours of technical leadership
Although the Senior IC ladder is starting to become more defined why aren’t more people talking about this shift, and what does leadership actually look like as Senior IC?
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The delegation equation
In this storytelling session Leslie Chapman, Distinguished Engineer, will explore the right ways and times to delegate, and the pitfalls of not delegating properly.
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Sculpting data for machine learning
In the contemporary world of machine learning algorithms – data is the new oil
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In partnership with Lohika
Cultivating effective cross-functional relationships
In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering departments can form strong relationships with other teams.
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Sturgeon’s Biases: how communities of practice lie to themselves & everybody else
In this talk, I’ll explore these problems through the lens of Sturgeon’s Revelation usually stated as “ninety percent of everything is crud”!
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Holding effective coaching conversations
Explore how to hold effective coaching conversations as leaders.
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Down with the “Boss”
As a manager and senior leader, this talk will give you a good high-level outline of different areas of growth that should be on every manager’s career development framework.
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Eight timezones, one cohesive team
Leading a globally distributed engineering department that spans eight different timezones is no walk in the park. It takes a lot of effort and intention to make it all work.