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The Human Toll of Incidents & Ways to Mitigate it
Kyle Lexmond discusses the human side of major system failures. He shares psychological insights and architectural tactics for surviving high-pressure incident rooms.
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From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – at the Same Startup
Trisha Ballakur explains how to transition from hands-on software engineering to founder and C-suite roles. She shares tactical lessons on customer discovery, delegation, and leveraging open source.
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AI-First Software Delivery: Balancing Innovation with Proven Practices
Wes Reisz explains how to move beyond "vibe coding" into a rigorous AI-first software delivery (AIFSD) model. He shares the RIPER-5 framework to maintain engineering excellence with agents.
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Week-Long Outage: Lifelong Lessons
Molly Struve shares a "murder mystery" outage story from a massive Elasticsearch upgrade. She explains why you need a rollback plan, how to check biases, and why leadership support is a stabilizer.
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Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI Content are Taking over the Internet
Shuman Ghosemajumder discusses the evolution of AI, the rise of "AI slop," and how generative tools have become the ultimate weapon for automated cybercrime, deepfakes, and credential stuffing.
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Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity
Randy Shoup shares how eBay doubled engineering productivity but failed to pivot the business. He explains the technical wins of the Velocity Initiative and the cultural hurdles that remained.
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Local First – How to Build Software Which Still Works after the Acquihire
Alex Good explains how to build robust, local-first collaborative software using generic synchronization infrastructure and CRDTs to eliminate server dependency and enhance user agency.
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From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome
Nicole Forsgren explains why AI alone won't solve developer productivity. She shares how to identify friction in the "outer loop" and use DevEx frameworks to build sustainable, high-performing teams.
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Four Patterns of AI Native Development
Patrick Debois explains the shift to AI-native development, focusing on how engineers are moving from producers to managers of intent while navigating the "chaos period" of 600+ emerging AI tools.
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Achieve Optimal Efficiency for Your Developer Experience Teams
Fabien Deshayes shares how Monzo built a high-impact DevEx team with just three engineers. He explains how treating platform as a product doubled experimentation and slashed decision time by 50%.
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Panel: Modern Data Architectures
The panelists emphasize that data engineering is no longer just about "click-and-drag" UI tools; it is software engineering applied to data.
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Are You Missing a Data Frame? The Power of Data Frames in Java
Vladimir Zakharov discusses the power of DataFrames in Java. He compares implementations like DataFrame-EC and Tablesaw against Python’s pandas, focusing on performance and memory efficiency.