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The rise of coding with parallel agents
Exponents see it as the future of software development. Do they have a point?
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Clear technical vision is the key for aligned growth
Technical visions are the guardrails that keep decision-making aligned across orgs.
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In partnership with HoneycombInside our 2025 Engineering Performance Report
Uncover the data behind modern engineering performance and what it reveals about AI, observability, and the future of system reliability.
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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.
The festival of engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
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Top Technical Direction videos
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How to build a fully serverless application
“Serverless”. It is already being called the buzzword of 2016. Steve is going to bring “serverless” back to reality by showing how Bustle has built a fully serverless application platform.
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Dealing with deprecated codebases
No one tells developers and project managers to throw things away. We assume that because it’s cheap to keep it around, the emotional comfort is worth the tradeoff.
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Case studies in building microservices
Building complex software projects is an iterative process. We rarely get to spend months designing and writing a complete project plan before releasing something to our users, and no feature is ever truly finished.
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Vault and Security as a Service
Over the past ten years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the architecture of service-oriented systems.
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Is Kotlin right for you?
Kotlin sure has been receiving a lot of buzz lately, is there something to it?
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A tour of Apache Pulsar
Apache Pulsar is a distributed pub/sub system develop at Yahoo! This talk covers Apache Pulsar’s underlying design and protocol level semantics.
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Building a data infrastructure
Your team needs data so they can make the right decisions. Unless they have the right data in the right place, they’re left to act on intuition, opinions and hunches.
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Planning, executing, and landing refactoring
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