Latest videos
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In partnership with PagerDutyAre you ready for the next generation of incidents?
Incident response was never easy. AI is about to make it harder.
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The creative technologist
Learn how to build a creative practice to help you become a more creative leader.
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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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Effortless execution: Designing processes that don’t need babysitting
Discover five characteristics of team processes that can save your sanity, improve your relationships, and let your team take pride in being a well-oiled machine.
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Monolith-ifying perfectly good microservices
Learn why consolidating microservices into a Rails monolith boosted performance, reduced complexity, and helped Intercom scale more efficiently
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How to make the perfect decision
Master decision-making in software architecture with frameworks that drive alignment, reduce risk, and deliver meaningful, context-aware outcomes
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In partnership with VercelHow to maintain a codebase – when everyone can code
Learn how to maintain platform performance with machine-first observability, enabling AI agents to monitor and repair production systems.
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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Finding balance: How to build processes that help not hurt your engineering team
Learn how to implement effective processes that empower engineering teams, balancing flexibility and adaptability to foster ownership, accountability, and a positive team culture.
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Transforming legacy software: Riding the rollercoaster of emotion and innovation
This talk delves into overcoming emotional resistance and technical debt in digital transformation, highlighting strategies, tools, and insights that helped drive innovation and effective change.
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Increasing code habitability by using AI coding assistants
Discover how AI coding assistants can enhance code habitability while avoiding pitfalls, with strategies to improve code quality in today’s complex development landscape.
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Several components are rendering: Client performance at Slack-scale
Explore Slack’s frontend performance challenges with Jenna, uncovering architectural decisions and strategies to optimize efficiency while maintaining an effortless user experience.
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Building APIs together: How to embrace a multiplayer strategy
This session shows how a team-based, “multiplayer” approach to building APIs can eliminate versioning headaches, stop duplicate work, and dramatically accelerate your delivery cycle.
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Making better build vs buy decisions
Master a decision-making framework for build-vs-buy choices in engineering, with real-world examples, collaboration strategies, and tips for avoiding integration pitfalls.
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The choice is yours – or is it? Tactics for making difficult decisions
Discover how senior engineering leaders navigate decision-making, from managing details to big-picture strategy, and learn how collaboration leads to smarter, more impactful choices.
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Empowering developers to accelerate decentralized app development
Learn to quickly launch Web3 apps with Near Protocol and React-on-Chain, enabling cross-chain asset management, DeFi, and Social while simplifying Web3 development.
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Crossing the enterprise chasm
Learn proven strategies to scale from PLG to enterprise, making your app “enterprise-ready” and driving upmarket growth. Ideal for product leaders and technical founders.
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Cultivating ownership at any engineering level
Learn how engineering managers can cultivate employee ownership through curiosity, critical thinking, and empowering decision-making while aligning with company values for better performance.
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Are we doing this right? Findings from the state of feature management and experimentation report 2024
Explore key findings from the 2024 State of Feature Management and Experimentation report, including trends, the engineering-product gap, and balancing optimization with safety.
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Ethics in the age of AI: Strategies for mitigation and their historical context
Explore historical lessons on technology harms as Christina Entcheva discusses AI ethics, modern software engineering, and guidelines for product teams to mitigate risks.
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Retaining Your People After the Tech Boom
Discover how to retain talent during staff reductions by leading with empathy, building trust, and understanding employees’ motivators in times of economic and industry change.
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Making do: Scaling expertise on teams you can’t grow
Explore how flexible team models enable small teams to handle high-stakes challenges, maintain resilience, and sustain morale during periods of organizational change.
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Managing expectations: Lessons from making large-scale platform changes
Discover how Datadog managed the technical and human challenges of migrating 2000+ engineers to Kubernetes, emphasizing effective communication and understanding human behavior during change.
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Cultivating great teams: Managing out with kindness
Learn a humane approach to managing underperforming team members, with strategies for setting expectations, providing direct feedback, fostering growth, and handling tough conversations with compassion.
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Spin it up, shut it down
Discover how to form impactful teams, drive progress, and gracefully shut them down, with a blueprint for creating and ending purposeful project teams effectively.
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A nudge in the right direction: How to give just enough help
Learn how to give just the right amount of help by applying insights from puzzle design. Discover practical techniques for offering effective guidance in any situation.
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Self-Awareness for Managers: Avoiding the antipatterns that block your team
Explore strategies to enhance self-awareness as a manager, unlock genuine feedback, and avoid decision-making traps that hinder your team’s performance and morale.
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Safety and Belonging – A Ritual to Jumpstart Psychological Safety
Learn how to cultivate psychological safety in teams through practical strategies and a 3-part workshop, inspired by Riot Games’ “Safety and Belonging” ritual.
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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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Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety
Uncover the science behind code review anxiety, its cognitive triggers, and actionable strategies to reduce anxiety, fostering a healthier code review culture for all developers.
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Becoming the leader you can be, in a changed technology industry
Explore how engineering leaders can navigate industry shifts, handle uncertainty, and rethink their roles in the evolving tech landscape through this reflective session on leadership.
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Beyond the headlines: Engineering leadership in 2024
Discover insights from LeadDev’s 2024 Engineering Leadership report, exploring how 1,100 engineering leaders feel about navigating industry challenges amid tech layoffs and AI hype.