Latest videos
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In partnership with ChronosphereDo we need AI agents to fix our AI agents?
Assessing your readiness for observability agents.
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In partnership with StoryblokWhat are engineers getting paid for now?
As organizations ‘hire’ more agents, we need to talk about how we evaluate and value human engineers.
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In partnership with HarnessHow do you know your AI investment is worth it?
Delivering more stuff doesn’t mean you’re delivering more value to end users.
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In partnership with HarnessHow to build the guardrails your AI releases actually need
Too many organizations are relying on existing guardrails when it comes to AI-generated code.
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Game time: A playbook to (unsuccessfully) 10x in a week and (successfully) 10x in a year
A candid scaling story about why rushed 10x efforts fail, and how disciplined metrics, culture, and architecture win over time.
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Rethinking how distributed teams deliver complex tech
Practical patterns for delivering complex work across distributed teams while improving inclusion, decision quality, and team autonomy.
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Your problem isn’t the monolith. It’s the data.
How disciplined data ownership and contracts prevent architectural decay and enable systems to evolve without traumatic rewrites.
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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The AI-augmented leader: Architecting your own virtual Chief of Staff
A practical case study on building a personal AI assistant to reduce context switching, automate management work, and reclaim strategic focus.
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In partnership with incident.ioAccelerating sustainably with AI
Scaling AI coding across teams requires culture shifts, standards, documentation, and thoughtful sustainable engineering practices.
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Planning next moves: Improving performance when half your stack is someone else’s problem
Learn how to measure latency, set realistic goals, and improve performance even when critical parts of your system are out of your control.
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Four dimensions of burnout: An anti-burnout framework for the AI era
A practical framework to help engineering leaders recognize burnout early, rebalance demands, and recover while staying effective and healthy.
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Guardrails, not gates: Scaling juniors in the AI era
How automated guardrails let junior engineers ship faster with AI, while protecting quality, safety, and senior reviewer sanity.
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Building for reliability
Reliability emerges from systems, teams, and decisions. Learn how to design, operate, and scale it intentionally.
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In partnership with HarnessUnlocking ROI through development, release, and experimentation velocity
Learn how faster, more reliable delivery pipelines can unlock experimentation ROI, improve release confidence, and drive compounding gains across teams.
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Dojo’s leap from 90 clusters to one golden path
How a single golden path replaced massive platform sprawl, delivering self-service, safer defaults, and real operational leverage.
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Reading the game: Mental skills for high-performing engineering teams
A relatable look at how reading team dynamics, stress signals, and motivation unlocks stronger performance than technical skill alone.
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Designing neuro-inclusive incident management
Learn how small, intentional changes to incident management reduce cognitive load, support neurodivergent engineers, and strengthen system reliability.
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AI killed the coding interviews. Here’s what Meta built instead
How Meta replaced traditional coding interviews with AI-native hiring that measures adaptability, communication, and real-world engineering judgment.
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In partnership with SoftwireTechnology advances; history repeats itself
Learn how to protect engineering culture, leadership judgment, and technical depth as AI and rapid change reshape the industry.
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Engineering leadership in 2026
Explore what 600+ engineering leaders revealed about how their roles, priorities, and challenges are changing in 2026.
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In partnership with VercelAgentic triage for tackling technical debt
A practical look at using agents to separate urgent system issues from backlog noise, without removing human judgment.
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We doubled engineering productivity at eBay, but couldn’t change culture
Learn how to use stories to improve your influence as a leader.
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How to grow your engineers into great leaders
Clear signals, habits, and opportunities that help individual contributors grow into effective managers long before the title changes.
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Engineering at scale: Why developer experience is your competitive advantage
How reducing developer friction at scale boosts velocity, quality, and retention, and becomes a real competitive edge in the AI era.
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Shipping secure, reliable and high performance AI agents
A hands-on engineering guide to building AI agents that stay secure, reliable, and fast in real, high-stakes production systems.
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One silver bullet: Adaptability
Hire for adaptability over pedigree, and build teams that can learn, grow, and deliver in a changing industry.
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In partnership with incident.ioDon’t wait for an outage to improve your reliability
A reliable system isn’t just about your infrastructure. Learn to effectively leverage game days to train engineers and build resilience before real incidents force you to.
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In partnership with Skiller WhaleAI productivity at enterprise scale
Turning AI adoption into real productivity gains requires changing habits, building skills, and scaling learning across the entire organization.
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The Staff Engineer’s playbook: Intellectual shift to systemic impact
A practical framework for making the Staff Engineer leap, shifting from solving tasks to defining strategy and delivering lasting systemic impact.
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Most MCP servers are collecting dust. Why and how to avoid that.
How to design MCP servers that deliver the right context, stay secure, and actually get used in real workflows.
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In partnership with Octopus DeploySafe production changes with agents
A flexible codebase is a good one, especially in the age of AI-assisted development.