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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.
- Chantal Kapani

A smarter way to evaluate LLM applications

LLM evaluations are the ultimate quality gate for your product.
- Misam Abbas
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.
- Carly Page

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

Editor’s picks

The quickly evolving role of QA

In fast-paced software development environments, the way you think about quality assurance needs to change.

Saurav Sharma

November 3 & 4, 2025

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Essential reading

How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process

Taking code quality beyond documentation and into the fabric of your team’s work.

Thomas Willams

Building a culture of quality in engineering teams

Ken DeLand

On our Software Quality playlist

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.

Conference

In partnership with Swimm

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…

Webinar

In partnership with Sauce Labs

Building a better testing culture

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

Webinar

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.

Conference