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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.
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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.
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Strengthening company alignment
As a senior leader, you are often the in-between person who is matching the business needs, product execution and the team’s talent. That work requires you to communicate proficiently to ensure everyone understands the needs and the status of progress. In this talk, we’ll cover the basic communication paths to be successful as a senior engineering leader and dive into two of the most difficult parts of it: forward planning and driving accountability in your teams.
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Empowering your engineering teams to address legacy code
Improve the way your engineering team works with legacy code
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My Monolith is Melting: Lessons from Legacy
Meri Williams looks at a real-world example of how she undertook the technical, cultural and process challenges to move to continuous delivery in a big organisation.
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The difficult teenage years: setting your tech strategy after the launch
How to make sure that you don’t lose sight of your original technical strategy when creating a new product
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A Commune in the Ivory Tower? – A new approach to architecture decisions
Andrew Harmel-Law introduces a mindset and an associated set of practices which do away with the traditional idea of “Architects” while bringing the practice of “Architecture” to the fore.
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Why we are writing a monolith, not a microservice
Supriya Srivatsa explains why at Atlassian, they decided to break down a mammoth monolith, why they chose to not go down the microservice route, and the what and whys of the new, shiny modular monolith they are working on!
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Keeping your codebase fun at scale
Raul Chedrese teaches techniques for creating a compelling technical vision, sharing that vision, and creating buy-in as well as developing an incremental plan for reaching that vision.
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Navigating the Chaos of Scaling
Vitor Reis looks at the difference between high-performing versus average and low-performing teams and how it is vital for success in a fast-paced environment. For this to be sustainable in the long run, you need to have the right people on the job.