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Lessons learned launching an MCP server
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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.

More about Technical Direction
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Accelerating the journey from monolith to microservices
How to execute an efficient and successful architecture transformation
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Living with legacy: landing boring change smoothly
How to safely and effectively decommission legacy
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The thin line between technology advocacy and ideology
Exploring the biases we hold about technologies
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Measuring and improving the efficiency of software delivery
Which metrics are right for your organization?
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Managing technical risk
Understanding the motivations behind an engineer’s desire to affect your tech stack
Top Technical Direction videos
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Cloud infrastructure architecture for Nubank’s global expansion
Lais Oliveira discusses Nubank, one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, serving over 70 million customers across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Our products and systems weren’t built to be multi-country. Rapid growth and scaling challenges drove rethinking cloud infrastructure and building a technical strategy.
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Delivering a digital first BBC – an architects perspective
Hannes Ricklefs shares why realising big visions and missions is an exciting yet daunting task. Having worked at the intersection between Product, Delivery, Architecture and Engineering, this talk will explore what is key to continuously evolve the stack, the org, and ways of working.
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Homebrew’s great migration: Moving to GitHub packages with zero downtime
Mike McQuaid discusses the following: the key factors we evaluated to decide between the options available, how compromises were made within and between Homebrew and GitHub (my employer), what techniques we used to implement the migration by the hard deadline with zero downtime, and how to use “soft power” to affect change in your organisation without “hard power” to decide what any individual works on.
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The journey of a byline
Alice Bartlett explores the journey our content takes through the many, many applications in our microservices architecture.
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Orchestrating thousands of bots from the cloud
James Donkin talks about how we now provide an end-to-end platform for smart online grocery to some of the world’s largest grocery retailers. At the heart of our model are automated warehouses which are the most advanced of their kind. Thousands of bots collaborate seamlessly on 3D grids to fulfil customer orders.
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Defining a technical vision
Eamon Scullion discusses the role of a technical vision in creating a roadmap for your organisation’s technology evolution. We will cover how to assess your current technology architecture, defining your target state and identify next best steps for getting closer to your goal.
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Practical systems thinking for Software Engineers
Laura Nolan covers methods such as EAST-BL, System Dynamics, and the Energy Barrier perspective, with a specific focus on how these methods can be applied to the development and operation of distributed software systems.
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Build a data-driven on-call workflow for your team with atomic habits
Bianca Costache will walk you through a data-driven on-call framework, clearly derived from first principles. You will get the WHY, our journey towards adoption, and the results after more than 2 years of implementation.