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The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned
Sophie Weston shares how to navigate the "squiggly" path to Principal Engineer. She discusses the "broken comb" skill set, the engineer-manager pendulum, and how to drive growth beyond the IDE.
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Hidden Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making
Dan Fike and Shawna Martell discuss "hidden decisions" - the unintentional defaults in culture, incentives, and architecture that shape technical debt, team behavior, and long-term career strategy.
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Are We Ready for the Next Cyber Security Crisis Like Log4shell?
Soroosh Khodami shares a "horror story" on supply chain attacks. He explains how one Maven or npm command can gift hackers a reverse shell and shares critical strategies like SBOMs to defend teams.
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Security and Architecture: to Betray One is to Destroy Both
Shana Dacres-Lawrence discusses the "betrayals" between security and architecture. She explains how delivery pressure and assumed trust lead to failures and shares five strategies for a lasting union.
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Open Source, Community, and Consequence: the Story of MongoDB
Andrew Davidson and Akshat Vig share the "MongoDB Way", discussing how to disrupt a 50-year database legacy by leveraging the document model, community trust, and rapid, public iteration.
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Panel: Security against Modern Threats
The panelists discuss the challenges in securing the software supply chain against modern threats.
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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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Data Mesh in Action: a Journey from Ideation to Implementation
Anurag Kale explains how to solve brittle ETL pipelines using Data Mesh. He shares an approach to decentralizing data ownership, treating data as a product, and building self-serve platforms.
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Platform Engineering as a Practice of Sociotechnical Excellence
Lesley Cordero explains how platform engineering serves as a sociotechnical solution for scaling orgs. She shares strategies for joint optimization, communal learning, and distributed leadership.
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Mobile Server-Driven UI at Scale
Rafael Ring explains how Nubank revolutionized mobile development by building a scripted server-driven UI framework, reducing feature lead times from weeks to minutes for 115 million customers.
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Image Processing for Automated Tests
Stefan Dirnstorfer explains the evolution of image-based test automation, comparing GenAI agents like Claude 3.5/4.5 with traditional computer vision for resilient, internal-free frontend testing.
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Beyond the Code: Hiring for Cultural Alignment
Alicia Collymore explains how to assess cultural alignment within technical interviews. She shares strategies for engineering leaders to identify core attributes and use spectrums to evaluate fit.
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