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Ms. Frizzle would be a great SRE
Five frameworks from a century of education research that map directly to eval design for AI agents, and why building the eval system before the product changes everything.
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New York • September 8 & 9, 2027
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Essential reading
How to build an effective technical strategy
Building a tech strategy requires a lot of moving parts. Learn about what routes to take and whether decisions should be top-down.
On our Technical Direction playlist
Modernizing legacy systems: A technical strategy for evolving monoliths into modern architectures at HelloFresh
Gain insights into transforming legacy systems into scalable architectures, with practical strategies for balancing stability, managing technical debt, and enabling growth opportunities at HelloFresh.
Technical Vision vs. Technical Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Jonathan Maltz digs into the nuts and bolts of setting a successful technical strategy. Startin by talking about the difference between technical vision and technical strategy.
How to implement platform engineering at scale
In this webinar, we’ll hear from enterprise engineering leaders who’ve overcome cultural barriers and team silos, and successfully adopted platform engineering practices in their orgs.
Good technical debt
Jon Thornton discusses how this framework was used to rapidly build and ship Squarespace’s Email Campaigns product in less than 15 months. Along the way, you’ll get several practical guidelines for how tech debt can supercharge your technical investments.
Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy
Having a defined tech strategy creates alignment and keeps everyone on the same page. So how can you ensure yours is most effective? Panelists Anna Shipman, Randy Shoup, Papanii Nene Okai, Nimisha Asthagiri and Anand Mariappan share their tips.
The festival for modern engineering leadership
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
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How to get the most out of staff+ engineers
Staff+ engineers are often overlooked despite their wealth of knowledge and business understanding. How can we stop the cycle?
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Why Elixir is one of the hottest programming languages to learn
The 2024 Stack Overflow survey highlighted little-known Elixir as the second-most desired programming language to learn.
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In partnership with WorkOS
The case against building your own SSO and Directory Sync
As your product scales you will likely need to incorporate SSO and SCIM, but building these yourself is fraught with risk.
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How to build an effective technical strategy
Building a tech strategy requires a lot of moving parts. Learn about what routes to take and whether decisions should be top-down.
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Why OpenFeature is central to modern feature management
Get to know the open source project changing the game for feature flags.
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What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and are you ready for it?
Is RAG the answer to all your generative AI hallucination problems?
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How to standardize codebases across teams
As your organization scales it can become more and more difficult to maintain standards across code bases. Here’s how to overcome the hurdles.
Top Technical Direction videos
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In partnership with HarnessDatabase changes slowing you down? There’s a better way
Is it time to bring database administrators into the DevOps circle?
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In partnership withAre you ready for the next generation of incidents?
Incident response was never easy. AI is about to make it harder.
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How to get buy-in when you’re not the boss
Practical strategies for influencing without authority in cross-functional teams
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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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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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Using postmortems to break out of infinite loops
Our experience is our best resource when it comes to incident prevention, so why are we so resistant to learning from our past mistakes?
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Growing pains: Scaling and re-architecting systems under fire
Explore how stakeholder buy-in can make or break your system re-architecture during high-pressure scaling challenges.