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  • Dressing to the 9s

    Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.

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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 talk by Emily Thomas in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

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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Smruti Patel

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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  • Work-life balance as an engineering leader

    In this talk it is shown that some features of work addiction are similar to other addictions, and how workaholism relates to burnout, low job satisfaction, high levels of job strain and health complaints.

  • Engineering retrospectives – Look back, move forward

    Retrospectives are one of the most powerful tools in a team lead’s toolkit.

  • An Swift introduction

    Since its initial release in 2014 and subsequent open-sourcing in 2015 Swift has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world — used everywhere from mobile to Macs to microservices.

  • The challenges and rewards of distributed teams

    Distributed teams offer many benefits for employers and employees alike. Having a distributed team can make recruiting and retention easier, and it can help you build a diverse team.

  • Creating observable microservices

    Think of this talk as a Microservices 201. You know the basic of microservices and their pros and cons, but can you successfully maintain them in production?

  • Finding the right ingredients for the perfect engineering team

    A great team is like a great dish, balanced flavors, tastes, textures and smells combine to create something unique and delicious.

  • Leading through public speaking as an engineering leader

    In our work, we each have moments of saying some prepared words under a spotlight – whether it’s during team standups, giving a presentation to a client, or pitching your promotion to your boss – and yet we all have different fears about those moments.

  • Rebooting culture

    Camille is the former CTO at Rent the Runway, where she led the team of over 60 engineers building the world’s first short-term high fashion rental site

  • 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.

  • Growing an engineering organization with effective DevOps

    Most of us hope that our engineering organizations will grow and scale with the success of our businesses, but that growth is often easier said than done.

  • Making developers on support work for everyone

    Oftentimes, the choice for a smaller startup is between hiring no one for technical support and just letting the developers/founders field all questions or hiring a support person and expecting them to handle it all (while that poor support person sits alone, feeling dreadfully concerned about “bothering the developers”).

  • Who Destroyed Three Mile Island?

    On March 28, 1979, at exactly 4 o’clock in the morning, control rods slammed into the reactor core of Three Mile Island Unit #2, halting the nuclear reaction because of a fault in the reactor cooling system.

  • Laying the foundations for remote success

    Adapting to the new normal in engineering

  • 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.

  • Leadership Through the Underground Railroad

    Software development has regularly borrowed processes and terminology from outside technology to improve how code gets to customers.

  • Intro to test-driven development

    Does your team deal with bugs that could have been caught earlier in the development cycle?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Building Tech for the Non-Technical

    Everyone has blindspots. For developers it is often taking for granted certain technical skill sets.

  • 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.

  • Vault and Security as a Service

    Over the past ten years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the architecture of service-oriented systems.

  • Tackling Big, Impossible Projects

    Big, Impossible projects are exciting, transformative, and begin with an overwhelming number of unanswered questions.

  • 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?