
Latest videos
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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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Building scalable systems in a complex compliance world
Gain actionable insights to build scalable, compliant systems that adapt to evolving regulations while maintaining engineering speed and agility
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Being secure by design: Engineer-led security
This talk shares how the secure-enough software challenge can be solved by building an engineer-led security culture, leading to a culture of collaboration and confidence in good security choices.
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Technical Steering Groups: Balancing autonomy, technical alignment, and speed through strategic collaboration
Learn how technical steering groups drive technical alignment while fostering ownership – balancing autonomy and collaboration to fuel speed, innovation, and impactful decision-making across teams.
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Honey, I shrunk the bill!
Learn proven strategies to reduce cloud spend by improving visibility, auditing usage, and optimizing data and microservices infrastructure for efficiency
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10 things nobody tells you about OKRs
OKRs are a simple – and useful – sounding idea, but in practice, there are all kinds of troubles people get bogged down in. Here are ten, rarely mentioned, things that can help.
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Becoming an AI Engineering company
Learn how to operationalize AI across your organization to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and stay ahead in a competitive market
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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Rethinking collaboration: LLMs, teams, and cognitive load
Discover how LLMs can reduce cognitive load, boost team collaboration, and reshape engineering workflows without compromising quality or delivery.
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How to delete everything: The clean-slate approach to technical strategy
Learn how clean-slate thinking can break technical deadlocks, improve system resilience, and inspire actionable strategies for complex engineering challenges.
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Rethinking growing engineers in the age of AI
Explore how to grow future senior engineers in an AI-driven world that sidelines traditional junior roles.
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Give everyone a challenge – Leadership growth in stable times
Learn how to grow engineering leaders through impact-focused challenges, not headcount, even in low-growth environments.
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In partnership with Harness
Is it time to shift cloud cost ownership left?
Why the path to faster releases and innovation starts with putting developers first.
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How engineering leadership is changing in 2025
If your team is hitting key delivery metrics, we assume everything in the lifecycle before production is sound. However, we know that traditional metrics only tell half the story.
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In partnership with Swarmia
Diagnosing productivity issues in your engineering organization
Join LeadDev’s first-ever virtual workshop for a strategic guide to maximizing engineering effectiveness in your org.
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In partnership with Harness
How better developer experience drives results
Why the path to faster releases and innovation starts with putting developers first.
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In partnership with Harness
Your guide to proactive tech debt management
With high-profile outages striking increasingly frequently, incident prevention and readiness are critical, but not at the expense of speed or innovation.
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In partnership with Harness
Incident response before the incident
With high-profile outages striking increasingly frequently, incident prevention and readiness are critical, but not at the expense of speed or innovation.
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Break silos and build cross-functional bridges
Cross-functional alignment is what makes (or breaks) teams. When engineering, product, and business come together to navigate conflict, foster collaboration, and encourage shared ownership, progress soars.
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How to master the perfect pull request
Pull requests are an essential part of collaborative development, but one that’s often rushed or fraught for teams juggling increasing workloads and competing priorities.
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In partnership with DX
What to do with developer productivity metrics
There’s no shortage of data available for leaders looking to measure developer productivity, but what happens after you’ve set up your dashboards and the numbers start rolling in?
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In partnership with Harness
Escaping your DIY Feature Flags
Feature flags, how difficult can it be? But now it’s day two, and suddenly you’re in the feature flag business.
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How to be an influential leader
The most successful engineering leaders know that influence is the key to driving results, getting buy-in, and getting the task done.
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In partnership with Harness
Prove the value of platform engineering
How to justify the cost of your biggest engineering investment.
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In partnership with incident.io
Building the dream incident response team
Struggling with incidents? It could be time to assemble an elite response team.
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In partnership with Coder
The perils of context switching
Studies show that it can take 20 minutes to regain focus after a distraction, but what can engineering leaders do to help engineers switch context less often and find flow?
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In partnership with CloudZero
Optimizing cloud costs: Whose job is it anyway?
Who really owns cloud costs? In many organizations, the answer still isn’t clear.
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In partnership with Harness
Crafting the perfect developer platform
From your IDE to CI/CD, where is best to buy vs build?
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How to master change and drive impactful transformation
Change is inevitable—but leading it effectively is a game-changer.
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In partnership with O’Reilly
The metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.