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Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations
Thiago Ghisi shares his journey scaling engineering orgs to 100+ people. He explains how to establish operational cadence, manage highs and lows, and use reorgs as a feature to drive execution.
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Theme Systems at Scale: How to Build Highly Customizable Software
Guilherme Carreiro explains how Shopify scales a customizable theme system to 60M requests per minute. Learn about Liquid DSL constraints, native extensions, and bridging technical/non-technical gaps.
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Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green
Kevin Bowman shares how Kraken Technology balances the UK’s 30GW energy grid using renewable sources.
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Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems
Vanessa Formicola explains Holistic Engineering, the practice of factoring non-technical forces like HR policies and org structure into technical designs to prevent architecture decay and delays.
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Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success
Matthew Card explains how inclusive leadership drives success. He shares a framework for building trust, psychological safety, and personal resilience to create high-performing engineering cultures.
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Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers
Beth Anderson explains how power distance and psychological safety impact engineering teams. She shares strategies for active listening and reverse mentoring to drive inclusive technical excellence.
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DevOps Is for Product Engineers, Too
Lesley Cordero explains how DevOps and platform engineering drive sociotechnical excellence. She shares strategies for joint optimization, distributed leadership, and organizational sustainability.
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Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
Peter Hunter & Elena Stojmilova share how Open GI transformed its legacy platform to a cloud-native SaaS using Team Topologies and decentralized architecture practices.
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Empathy Driven Platforms: You Build It, Let’s Run It Together
Erin Doyle shares the "ultimate attack" for conquering engineering roadblocks: building Empathy-Driven Platforms. Learn how to bridge the Platform/Product Dev divide and boost productivity.
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Your Platform is Not an Island: Embracing Evolution in Your Ecosystem
Rachael Wonnacott explains why DevEx is a lever, not the destination. Learn to balance DevEx, productivity & business value by aligning platform design with a unique organizational ecosystem.
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Humans in the Loop: Engineering Leadership in a Chaotic Industry
Michelle Brush discusses engineering leadership in the age of AI/ML and automation.
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Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust
Emma Yuan Fang discusses how to apply Zero Trust principles to secure the software supply chain and CI/CD pipeline, detailing mitigation for major attacks like SolarWinds and dependency confusion.