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Why AI economics are fundamentally broken
Making money from software is not the same equation in the AI era.
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If 95% of generative AI pilots fail, what’s going wrong?
Learning the right lessons from that MIT study
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“Trial by fire” is destroying your incident response
The worst time to learn about observability is during an outage.
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In partnership with HarnessHow AI is increasing systems resiliency
Facing more code than ever, learn the resiliency best practices used by SREs, including where AI can help
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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
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Technical Direction
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Measuring app stability to reduce technical debt
The impact of stability scores and sharing responsibility
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Scaling held knowledge to unblock teams and untangle software complexity
The superpowers of convention
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How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product’s stage
As your product evolves, so should your testing strategy.
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The problem with “the platform”
Kubernetes can lead to over-engineered solutions, but it’s a context problem, not a technical one.
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The Boring Stack
The more boring our code and tech is, the more room we give our products to be interesting.
Top Technical Direction videos
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Managing architecture
Lutz Hühnken talks about the importance of a strategic approach to software architecture, that prevents teams from becoming architecture firefighters, who spent an excessive amount of energy applying short-term fixes to architectural problems.
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Native to flutter: A tale of Tide’s transformation
Anna Leushchenko and Giorgos Ampavis are here to share their transformation journey: how they upskilled their native mobile engineers to Dart and Flutter, migrated their codebase to the new tech stack, and rolled out the new product to their users, ensuring the best possible transition. They will highlight the challenges they faced, the solutions they implemented, and the objectives they have achieved for their business and engineering team.
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Crafting an effective technical strategy: Business success through targeted investment
Led by Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI, this session dives deep into the realm of technical strategy. It explores why technical strategy matters, how to align it with business objectives, and how to measure the impact.
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GraphQL is a superpower for your product manager and designer
Jeff Auriemma talks about how good tools help get a job done faster and better, transforming the entire end-to-end workflow from concept to deployment.
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From monolith to micro: How to break apart a front-end application
Thayse Onofrio goes through the steps to split a front-end application. We’ll discuss techniques to disintegrate the code and how to do that safely without impacting the production environment.
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Expedition to the LLM and AI frontier
Sanghamitra Goswami talks about how, in the wake of the ChatGPT craze, the whole world is joining hands to experience this recent AI innovation.
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Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT
Evan Morikawa gives you a behind the scenes look at how we scaled ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs. A story about staying nimble enough to release new capabilities and to respond quickly to a rapidly changing industry.
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Running large scale migrations continuously
Suhail Patel goes over strategies and principles to make large scale migrations less daunting, both from a technical and organisational point of view.