Latest videos
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Launching a Gen AI powered travel companion: A case for tiger teams
Explore Booking.com’s journey in launching a Gen AI travel companion in 3 months, powered by a tiger team approach for rapid, focused product development and innovation.
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In partnership with incident.ioHow does context switching impact team productivity?
In this panel, we’ll dig into why unmanaged context switching is detrimental, and ways you can help developers handle interruptions, and reach (and maintain) a state of focus and flow.
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In partnership with HarnessHow can AI actually help your teams?
In this webinar, our panelists dig into the cultural and technical issues that arise around the topic of AI, and uncover its most useful applications across the SDLC.
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Navigating complex projects: Finding the right mode of operation
In this talk, I share my journey of deciding on an effective mode of operation when engaging with complex projects.
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Sunsetting legacy: Navigating the Shop merchant eligibility data pipeline migration
In this talk, I’ll share the strategies used to disassemble our legacy data pipelines responsible for managing merchant eligibility on the Shop apps. Join me on a journey through our successes, challenges, and invaluable learnings in the meticulous orchestration of terminating our legacy data pipelines.
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Letting the Best Ideas Win
In my talk I will explain that this is generally a pretty bad idea; it won’t surface the best ideas and it doesn’t let more junior engineers develop their skills. Instead, I introduce some steps you can take to make sure that the idea adopted to solve a problem is the best idea available, even if you aren’t the one who came up with it. Perhaps counter-intuitively I will show how this increases your influence in your organisation and sets everyone up for success.
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Doing “the most important thing” is a trap.
This talk is little about why you need to say No to people more, and how things can go wrong when you don’t learn to do it enough.
Highlights from our conferences
Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.
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Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.
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How 1:1s can affect your engineering team’s culture
1:1s, or intentional time set aside for managers and their direct reports, are magical: they’re where you learn what “sparks joy” for your staffer and where they’re secretly flagging.
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5 Ways You Can Hire Engineers Better
For most companies, hiring is a cargo-culted, cut-and-pasted affair, run by people not trained to perform the task.
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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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Building Tech for the Non-Technical
Everyone has blindspots. For developers it is often taking for granted certain technical skill sets.
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Being a customer-focused engineering leader
Most software engineers don’t realize that an outage is more than keeping the TTR low (yes, TTR is very important); it’s also about managing the expectations of your customers.
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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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Tackling Big, Impossible Projects
Big, Impossible projects are exciting, transformative, and begin with an overwhelming number of unanswered questions.
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Reclaiming the Spirit of Agile
Do you follow Agile processes like Scrum, Kanban or XP… and yet struggling to deliver on time, under budget and without last-minute heroics? Why aren’t these supposedly best practices working for you?
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Transitioning to a lead dev
The transition from a developer to a Lead Developer can be a rocky one. Yesterday, you were working as a developer and today, suddenly, you find yourself in the role of the Lead Developer.
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Building Engineering Teams Under Pressure
Why do some teams ship features rapidly, support each other, and effectively communicate while others struggle?
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Do the Most Good
Mina shares reflections from the campaign trail and explores strategies to use your time and skills to affect social change.
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Eiffel’s tower
When Gustave Eiffel built his namesake tower, it was nearly twice as tall as the tallest structure on Earth.
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Storytelling patterns for engineering leaders
In most forms of entertainment, it all comes down to the story.
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Navigating engineering team friction
Friction is a common, and necessary, part of team growth—but when left unchecked, team friction is unhealthy for you, your coworkers, your company, and ultimately your end users.
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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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Crafting fun and productive Sprint retrospectives
What do Stairway to Heaven, air balloons, and the 3 Little Pigs have in common? They’re all fun formats for sprint retrospectives!
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Bootstrapping inclusion in engineering organisations
Diversity and Inclusion are hot topics right now. But, year after year, our industry fails to move the numbers significantly. It seems everyone is talking about it, but how do you actually bring about change?
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Creating code reviews that reflect your team’s culture
Our engineering workflow revolves around our code review process. Code reviews are more than just a way to make sure we don’t introduce new bugs into the codebase.
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Building and scaling distributed teams
Remote work is the number one desired workplace setup for developers. As a lead dev, you’re able to hire from a global talent pool, and your team’s productivity, engagement and retention can soar as everyone works in the way that’s best for them.
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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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Creating learning workshops for developers
Interactive workshops are the best way to engage teams and individuals and help everyone remember lessons learned.
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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
Slack is the leading global collaboration hub that makes people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive.
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Why GraphQL?
If you don’t know much about GraphQL, you probably just identify it as the hip, shiny new thing companies are adopting to replace their RESTful APIs.