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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.

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Most companies still aren’t measuring AI coding tools
AI adoption is soaring, but 82% of organizations still aren’t measuring the impact of AI coding tools.
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The one way to crack technical estimations under pressure
Technical estimations require overview of many different moving parts. Why not solicit the help of your team to move things along?
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Yes, the majority of language migrations are driven by hype
AI contributes to the surge, but half still fall short
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How Stack Overflow is innovating to keep up with AI disruption
Large language models, trained on public data, have pushed Stack Overflow toward an existential crisis.
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From on-call firefighting to future-proofing
How to reduce on-call load by 66% and the principles that will help you get there.
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“Vibe hacking” signals seismic shift for engineering leaders
Blackhat hackers have an addition to their armoury. Here’s how engineering leaders can safeguard their systems and stay on high alert.
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Is GitHub’s coding agent your newest junior dev?
GitHub’s new coding agent has some perks, but is still showing signs of significant growing pains. What are the current pain points?
Top Technical Direction videos
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In partnership with Testkube
How 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 Harness
Where 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 FusionAuth
Your 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 Harness
How 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.
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In partnership with Stytch
Are you ready for AI agents?
AI is changing how apps get accessed – are your systems built to keep up?
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In partnership with Coder
How to refactor without killing morale
Refactoring isn’t the problem; it’s how we manage it.
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In partnership with DX
Measuring the impact of AI in engineering
Insights from LeadDev’s inaugural AI Impact Report.