NZ Tech Rally 2023
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening remarks | Prae Songprasit | 14m |
Explains why the conference exists, the concrete mission to create paid inclusive spaces and content (newsletter, YouTube, paid articles) and the practical… | ||
| Keynote: Kiwiana & code | Katrina Clokie | 43m |
New Zealand tech is very small—about 114,000 people, 5% of the workforce, generating ~8% of GDP—and global layoffs of ~84,700 in January are shockingly large… | ||
| One DevOps does not git all | Allen Geer | 29m |
Seven years across roughly 15 New Zealand organisations reveals four concrete DevOps patterns: legacy government systems resist change and carry decades-old… | ||
| Communities in code | Aleisha Amohia | 25m |
Open source code story centered on Koha: a library system born in 1999 and now maintained by 489 contributors across the globe, developed at Catalyst with… | ||
| The fine lines between chaos and order | Jade Thomas | 31m |
A large bank grows from about 120 to 320 engineers and ends up with a mobile stack that has 900 dependencies, causing cascading failures and about 91%… | ||
| Panel discussion | Rahul Watson Govindan, Rachel Collingridge | 55m |
Panelists give concrete moves: dedicate regular time to creativity—set aside one day a week or run a weekly four‑Friday experiment where teams "reimagine the… | ||
| Fostering a quality quality culture | Adam Howard | 28m |
Builds a quality culture by creating a global community, running fortnightly sessions and workshops, and distilling participant input into five principles that… | ||
| Engineering metrics, minus the creepiness | Jenny Sahng | 26m |
Engineering metrics pair industry frameworks like DORA and SPACE with repo data to surface concrete problems: a Multitudes pipeline that hooks into Git shows a… | ||
| Including security in your engineering culture | Erica Anderson | 27m |
Starts teams-first: use existing staff and knowledge to map where data flows and why decisions were made, then lock down accounts and CI with MFA and repo… | ||
| From nerd to being heard | Mrinal Mukherjee | 30m |
Path from developer to engineering leader centers on concrete shifts: stop doing the teams’ work, start building teams, recruit diversity, and act as a party… | ||
| Quiz and closing remarks | Camy Bhandari | 31m |
Quick quiz with 131 quiz players awards a smart digital notebook, Alexa/Echo alarm clock and a hand‑powered espresso; questions test attendee counts, values… | ||
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