Latest videos
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In partnership with HarnessAllow anyone to code with AI
How to build a culture that enables even the most skeptical developer to experiment with AI coding tools and fail fast.
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Scaling LinkedIn’s search infrastructure: Key decisions and engineering challenges
Explore the key engineering decisions and challenges behind scaling LinkedIn’s search infrastructure to support billions of daily queries.
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Compiler makeover: How technical debt created happier developers
Tired of endless patches and quick fixes to your developer tools? So were we. Learn how we at WSO2 turned our outdated Ballerina compiler into a driver of innovation, community growth, and happier developers.
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FORTRAN’s AI Playbook: Leadership lessons from history
Learn proven leadership strategies from FORTRAN’s history to successfully adopt AI, upskill teams, and drive lasting transformation at scale
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From monitoring to mastery: Building an observability-driven culture
This talk explores how Phorest shifted to an observability-driven culture by aligning technical vision with customer pain, empowering teams through proactive ownership, and embedding observability into software practices to enhance customer trust.
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Escaping the rewrite trap
Gain practical frameworks to assess rewrites vs. evolution, plan successful migrations, and align teams and stakeholders without losing momentum.
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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.
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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Navigating the manager <> senior IC relationship
In this panel, we’ll explore the senior IC manager relationship, thinking about how to create a mutually beneficial partnership.
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To kill it with fire, or not to kill it with fire?
This talk explores the technical, organizational, cultural, and psychological factors that matter when we choose between full rewrites or incremental change.
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Technical strategy power chords
This talk will be most useful for folks just getting started with technical strategy, but even virtuosos may get a useful tip or two.
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Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19
This talk will cover how we organized the work — human, technical, and organizational — needed to prevent outages while we strove to keep ahead of pandemic-driven explosive product growth, and we’ll apply it to future long-running, large-scale incidents.
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Project Execution: Setting-up a cross-team project for success
In this panel, we’ll be focusing on successful strategies for landing big projects. We’ll discuss the principles of how to plan, conceptualize, and deliver big projects.
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Role and Influence: The IC trajectory beyond Staff
As you become an increasingly senior IC, subtle changes in the scope of your role shape the kinds of influence you can have and are expected to have
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Live long and prosper as a senior IC
In this chat, we’ll explore how Vulcan logic can inform communicating and acting ethically.
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What is senior IC? Flavours of technical leadership
Although the Senior IC ladder is starting to become more defined why aren’t more people talking about this shift, and what does leadership actually look like as Senior IC?
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The delegation equation
In this storytelling session Leslie Chapman, Distinguished Engineer, will explore the right ways and times to delegate, and the pitfalls of not delegating properly.
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Sculpting data for machine learning
In the contemporary world of machine learning algorithms – data is the new oil
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In partnership with Lohika
Cultivating effective cross-functional relationships
In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering departments can form strong relationships with other teams.
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Sturgeon’s Biases: how communities of practice lie to themselves & everybody else
In this talk, I’ll explore these problems through the lens of Sturgeon’s Revelation usually stated as “ninety percent of everything is crud”!
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Holding effective coaching conversations
Explore how to hold effective coaching conversations as leaders.
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Down with the “Boss”
As a manager and senior leader, this talk will give you a good high-level outline of different areas of growth that should be on every manager’s career development framework.
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Eight timezones, one cohesive team
Leading a globally distributed engineering department that spans eight different timezones is no walk in the park. It takes a lot of effort and intention to make it all work.
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Crafting efficient on-call processes
In this panel, we’ll discuss the fundamentals of an effective on-call process – thinking about how to diagnose your current state, iterate and improve, and how to avoid mistakes along the way.
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Managing up for engineering leaders
Is managing up bad?
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Seeking and receiving feedback as an engineering leader
In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering leaders can actively seek and receive feedback, and how to interpret feedback to steer self-improvement.
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Fixing ‘neutral’ hiring policies to stop excluding the best candidates
Assess candidates on potential and not on their past experience.
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Best practice for seamless product integration
How to achieve successful integration within existing infrastructure
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In partnership with RollbarSourcing the perfect product for your team
Avoid the quick-fix and find the best product for your needs
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In partnership with LohikaLaying the foundations for a successful build
How to ensure the build runs smoothly
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Supporting engineering teams through times of growth
How to steer through the nuts and bolts of change.
