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Shadow AI is leaving software teams dangerously exposed
Two thirds of organizations report exploits involving vulnerable LLM code.
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Why your boss is the biggest AI risk
Execs have been quick to caution developers about the risks of AI, but don’t seem to be taking their own advice.
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4 steps to speed up code reviews
The culture changes you need to make to stop code reviews from demoralizing teams.
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Painless compliance, and a thousand audits a day
Turn compliance into code: automate audits, integrate with CI/CD, and achieve painless, continuous, zero-drama compliance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The festival of engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
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Top Software Quality Videos
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Identifying and articulating the role of AI in your software design process
We’ve all read the articles and got excited by technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, Tensorflow, Panda and NumPy. A lot of us are also looking at how to incorporate these technologies into our toolset and in the software we are building.
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Rejecting the black box: examining the implications and practicalities of testing AI
There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) will have on testing. There’s a new generation of testing tools being developed that employ AI with promises of making testing much more efficient for us.
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Navigating front-end architecture like a Neopian
Over the past few years, I’ve gained expertise in front-end web architecture. I’ve done this work at Indiegogo, Headspace, for my open source mental health project if-me.org, and in my current role at Mailchimp.
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Designing software to maximize developer productivity
Having worked extensively in the Shopify codebase, one of the largest rails apps in existence, I have experienced firsthand some of the downsides of working in monolithic codebases.
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Principles for managing product quality
Keeping an application stable starts off being simple since your codebase is small, there are few points of failure, and you can easily reason about the implications of code changes.
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Using observability to detangle and understand production
When using tens or hundreds of microservices to provide an application’s critical functionality, diagnosing what interaction between components is causing an outage can be challenging.