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What leaders can learn from the Millennium Bug
At LDX3 2025, Google staff engineer Amir Safavi revisited the Y2K “Millennium Bug” as a case study in successful engineering coordination.
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A smarter way to evaluate LLM applications
LLM evaluations are the ultimate quality gate for your product.
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AI agents lead the fight back against a growing array of threats
Recent breakthroughs from Google and UC Berkley point towards a vital role for AI agents in cybersecurity.
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From dashboard soup to observability lasagna: Building better layers
Transform chaotic dashboards into a layered observability strategy that improves reliability, streamlines incidents, and builds real on-call confidence
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The quickly evolving role of QA
In fast-paced software development environments, the way you think about quality assurance needs to change.

November 3 & 4, 2025
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How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process
Taking code quality beyond documentation and into the fabric of your team’s work.
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Ways your teams can (realistically) prioritize code quality
Code matters – learn how to create a culture of quality in your organisation

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.

A guide to creating a great code documentation culture
If your teams are struggling with code documentation, watch this on-demand webinar, where our panel of engineering leaders will discuss best practices and strategies to get started. Code documentation is often viewed as a necessary evil by development teams. There’s no doubt that mastering the art of creating…

Building a better testing culture
How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?

Take back control of code quality
In this talk, Joel Chippindale shares stories from his experiences in leading engineering teams that illustrate the dynamics between team members and with stakeholders that lead teams to lose control of code quality.

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Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation
Bringing security into the modern age of engineering
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How keeping accessibility front of mind benefits everyone
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How enterprise organizations can respond when engineering goes wrong
Building quick and sustainable incident management processes
Top Software Quality Videos
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Constructing a framework for a differentiated customer experience.
Jasmine James examines key ways personas such as a leader serving external customers, internal customers and a team can establish processes, tools and capabilities that unlock a next level experience leading to more impactful customer strategies, a better employee experience and improved team velocity, to name a few.
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Accessibility and why everything old is new again
Alice Li climbs into her Wayback Machine and delves into some foundational approaches and processes to facilitate and test for Accessibility compliance on the web.
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The clean code protocol
Usha Kuchibhotla focuses on providing simple and easy steps to aid in adopting clean code practices during a fast-paced development environment without affecting velocity of the team.
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Instilling the built-in quality mindset into a dev team
Larissa Rosochansky and Rafael Cintra look at how we, as Technical Leaders, can help our teams to understand that quality is not the QA’s work, and must be distilled in every action, every line of code, every single little commit the team does.
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Level up your code reviews
Denise Yu gets us thinking about code reviews in terms of different lenses to help engineers of all experience levels build a vocabulary for seeking and providing feedback in a healthy, thoughtful, and collaborative way.
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Using Open Source safely and effectively
How can you make sure your engineering teams are up to date with best practices on open source?
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Collaborative debugging on engineering teams
Teams that write code together should be able to debug issues together. But while we think a lot about engineering collaboratively, we rarely develop processes for debugging collaboratively.