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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.
More about Technical Direction
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How to make the right decisions under pressure
Making the right decision under time pressures takes practice. Here are six rules to abide by that help make the process easier.
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The future of testing in compliance-heavy industries
Traditional testing doesn’t cut it anymore. Modern strategies are key to surviving in compliance-heavy industries.
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MCP and the future of AI tools
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how does it simplify data access, enhance AI reliability, and accelerate development?
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The importance of supervising your AI coding agents
And 3 other themes from the latest Thoughtworks’ Technology Radar.
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7 principles for balancing agility and durability
Engineering is a game of trade-offs – move fast and break things, or build slow and last forever? Know when to do which.
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An engineering leader’s guide to SOLID principles
30 years on, how do these design principles stand up?
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Tech debt is an outdated concept
Tech debt is often overused as a blanket statement for all manner of engineering issues. What if we reframed our approach?
Top Technical Direction videos
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In partnership with Augment CodeHow Tilt’s Review Bot transformed its code reviews
Watch James Garrett build a comprehensive knowledge base alongside a rigorous testing process, allowing before/after PR comparisons for any rule changes.
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In partnership with HoneycombHow to understand the value of your code
Using observability tools to code with your eyes open.
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In partnership with CircleCIMove faster without losing control
Overcome the false trade-off between control and agility by rethinking platform governance so that standards become speed multipliers, enabling developer flexibility while reducing risk.
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In partnership with TestkubeHow teams test at AI-powered velocity
Learn how elite cloud-native organizations scale their testing to match ever-increasing velocity demands.
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In partnership with HarnessWhere AI can supercharge DevOps
The race is on to infuse DevOps workflows with AI, but where does it actually help?
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In partnership with FusionAuthYour guide to getting started with passkeys
Learn how to build a pragmatic AI strategy without chasing hype-driven distractions.
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Build an AI strategy without falling for the hype
Learn how to build a pragmatic AI strategy without chasing hype-driven distractions.
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In partnership with HarnessHow Barclays and Experian proactively manage tech debt
Watch LeadDev’s first virtual Engineering in Action panel for lessons from industry leaders who face tech debt head-on.

