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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?
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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.
Berlin • Nov 3 & 4, 2025
Charity Majors, Sam Newman, and Humera Noor confirmed for LeadDev Berlin! 🙌
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.
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.
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 conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
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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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Making code review a more inclusive & productive collaboration
Shifalika will talk about why we need to focus on the social aspects of code review, the best practices around it and discuss concrete ways to promote inclusive code reviews.
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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
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Development setup: how an important part of your toolset is often overlooked
Gus Fune shares a story of three different developers and how their preferred setup was causing them to struggle in delivering.
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Sustainable means performant
Alex Canessa looks at how to reduce your website’s impact and improve your users’ experience, whilst designing and building with sustainability in mind.
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Compassionate Refactoring
Claire Sudbery talks about kindness and forgiveness, and the paradox that the more you accept and handle bad code, the more likely it is that you will end up with good code.
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Engineering a product for diverse markets
Grygoriy Gonchar shares his experience in building highly localized products in fintech, e-commerce, and classified industries.
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Taking the 737 to the MAX!
Nick Means uses the power of systems thinking to dig into how things could’ve gone so wrong (and learn to better see and understand the systems we interact with every day).
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Outputs vs Outcomes: Driving and defining quality in software development
Gabby Llanillo covers the value she added as a quality owner on her own game development teams and how aligning with her team early in the process to define what “good” looks like, significantly improves both the quality of the games and the relationship with the players.