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Architecting for Focus, Flow, and Joy: beyond the Unicorn Project
The panelists discuss some of the most fun and least fun moments when coding, how functional programming practices have helped, and how productivity can be unleashed at a team-of-teams scale.
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Less Mess, Less Stress: the Reliability Benefits of Custom Tools
Daniel Hochman discusses how an overreliance on vendor tooling leads to worse reliability outcomes, how Lyft lowered MTTR for its most common alerts using custom tooling, and how Clutch can help.
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Managing the Risk of Cascading Failure
Laura Nolan discusses some of the mechanisms that cause cascading failures, what can be done to reduce the risk, and what to do if there is a cascading failure situation.
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Create Autonomous, Highly Productive Teams By Lowering the Stakes
Jason Lengstorf looks at architectural and organizational strategies to help teams move with less technical debt or maintenance burdens.
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Intentional Distributed Teams
Maria Gutierrez and Glenn Vanderburg discuss how a company can stay productive, creative, and driven when employees are at a distance from each other.
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From Program to Process, Designing for Equity in the Workplace
Aubrey Blanche discusses how to evolve a program to create fair experiences for every employee and build better, safer products.
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Using DevEx to Accelerate GraphQL Federation Adoption @Netflix
Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan discuss how they made certain Build vs Buy (open source) trade-offs and the socio-technical aspects of working with many teams on a single shared schema.
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DEI Is Rooted in Justice. Let's Stop Making It about Profit
Chanita Simms explores diversity, discussing why equity it’s important, providing some tools on how to foster inclusion within an organization.
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What Engineering Teams Need From Leaders Right Now
Lena Reinhard reviews skills and tools for engineering managers to help them lead teams successfully, and explore what it means to show up as a leader now.
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Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Mary-Frances Winters discusses the impact of Black fatigue not only on Blacks but on society as a whole.
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Utopia or Dystopia? 10 Ways Tech Will Destroy Us All! Or Will It?
Anne Currie discusses ethical issues in possibly misuse of computing power through killer robots, cyberwarfare, and mass surveillance.
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Communicating Effectively with Your Business Partners
Randy Shoup discusses both the mindset and the techniques needed to be able to listen, understand, and communicate with non-engineers, showing how to use these techniques in some common scenarios.