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Ben Hartshorne
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Mar 29, 2024
How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap
Ben Hartshorne discusses how to pitch a product, covering why one needs to make a business case, what tech debt is, what data is most compelling, and getting tech debt on other teams’ roadmaps.
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Cassandra Shum
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Oct 03, 2023
Overcomplicated Architecture: Scaling Bottleneck
Cassandra Shum discusses one of the bottlenecks of software development, an overcomplicated architecture, addressing how a company gets to an overcomplicated architecture, and how to get out of it.
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Thomas Dullien
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Aug 11, 2023
Adventures in Performance: Efficiency Analysis of Large-scale Compute
Thomas Dullien discusses how language design choices impact performance, how Google's monorepo culture and Amazon's two-pizza-team culture impact code efficiency, why statistical variance is an enemy.
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Kent Beck
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May 26, 2023
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Charity Majors
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Apr 28, 2023
The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Charity Majors discusses how managers who hands-on code benefit companies as well as individuals, and about how to craft the sociotechnical systems that encourage this kind of career development.
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Anna Shipman
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Jan 13, 2023
No Next Next: Fighting Entropy in Your Microservices Architecture
Anna Shipman discusses her experience joining the FT to lead on FT.com a few years after launch and shares things implemented to stop the drift towards an unmaintainable system and another rebuild.
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Sarah Wells
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Oct 21, 2022
Panel: Engineering Leadership Lessons for Improving Flow
The panelists discuss how to lead organizational change to improve velocity and quality.
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Jordan Bragg
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Sep 11, 2022
Analyzing Codebases for Fun and Profit
Jordan Bragg discusses using entry-points, breadth-first scanning, and operation tagging to demystify the domain, see where to dive deeper, and uncover what technical debt may exist.
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Chris Seaton
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Sep 04, 2022
Understanding JIT Optimizations by Decompilation
Chris Seaton shows how they have developed a pseudo-code decompiler for optimized Java code, and how it helps them understand how the Java JIT compiler is working in order to improve their code.
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Jean Yang
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Aug 07, 2022
Panel: the True Bottleneck in Software Engineering - Cognitive Load
The panelists discuss making decisions in software development, postulating that the core limitation is how much we can know: how much we can hold in our heads, and how quickly we can learn.
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Glenn Engstrand
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May 05, 2022
Managing Tech Debt in a Microservice Architecture
Glenn Engstrand describes how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices.
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Courtney Kissler
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Mar 31, 2022
Lead with Speed
Courtney Kissler believes in speed for strong results. Tactics covered: outcome-based teams, making all work visible, limiting WIP, understanding velocity and viscosity, and architecture evolution.
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