The Lead Developer London 2015
2015-09-10..2015-09-11
London, United Kingdom
[The Lead Developer London 2015, The Lead Developer New York 2017, The Lead Developer New York 2018, The Lead Developer London 2018, The Lead Developer Austin 2018, The Lead Developer New York 2019, The Lead Developer London 2019]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Cloning yourself isn't an option | Camille Fournier | 35m |
The claim is concrete: stop trying to clone yourself (that only doubles output) and become a multiplier by teaching others, automating repeat work, and… | ||
| Riding the paradox as a lead developer | Patrick Kua | 17m |
Leads face concrete trade-offs: keep coding time while running tech lead lunch peer groups, carve out Google-style 20% time for learning, and champion… | ||
| Beyond developer | Daniel Terhorst-North | 27m |
Claim: modern lead developers expand beyond coding to own domain outcomes, deployment and production health, using tools like Go and container work with Docker… | ||
| 12 challenging steps to being a better interviewer | Cate Huston | 22m |
Twelve concrete steps promise process fixes not philosophy including doing algorithms and data structures screens without reading resumes charging for repeated… | ||
| The technical journey to microservices | Russ Miles | 27m |
Adoption hits an adoption hump where money and effort produce little value; successful journeys use concrete patterns: keep all domain happenings in event… | ||
| People are weird, I’m weird | Sam Barnes | 30m |
Argues that managing specifics beats platitudes and offers concrete practices: ask candidates what they love and hate then tell them what applies, use a douche… | ||
| Adaptive Testing | Beccy Stafford, Preet Sandhu | 23m |
Shows concrete results: moves a monolithic Ruby Selenium suite into parallel headless runs on AWS instances, removes flaky and redundant tests, and cuts build… | ||
| A primer on performance | Una Kravets | 27m |
Claim: images account for the largest bytes on a page (average image ~654 KB) so shaving one‑fifth of an image buys room for libraries like jQuery (86 KB)… | ||
| Staying ahead of the curve | Trisha Gee | 26m |
Concrete examples and measurable gotchas: Java 8 lambdas can make code longer not shorter, a map over 46,000 coffeeshops runs ~0.6s with parallel streams but a… | ||
| Practical web security | Junade Ali | 08m |
Practical, concrete fixes: run WP scanners and OWASP top 10 checks, grade SSL with SSL Labs, and enforce site‑wide SSL; deploy mod_security as a Web… | ||
| Building happier engineering teams | Oren Ellenbogen | 28m |
Eight concrete moves: a checklist of 8 tips including a pledge that new hires can deploy change to production on your first day, a welcome kit tradition where… | ||
| Go faster with Angular | Ben Godfrey | 10m |
Uses Angular on a greenfield mobile app and as an incremental layer over a PHP site, with services reused between mobile and desktop; builds a custom slider… | ||
| Go I made all the mistakes | James Abley | 10m |
Claims that Go implements CSP with goroutines and message-passing concurrency, uses gofmt and an AST to enable tooling, and offers go fix for automated code… | ||
| From web developer to mobile developer with NativeScript | Ben King | 09m |
Claim: NativeScript lets JavaScript developers build real native iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps and access native SDKs through a JavaScript bridge. Demo… | ||
| Building reproducible dev environments with Docker | Graham Gilchrist | 13m |
Claims reproducible dev environments by packaging Python and front‑end stacks with docker and docker-compose, storing build steps in a project… | ||
| Why you should be checking out Rust | Dan Webb | 12m |
Rust targets C/C++ use cases and claims C-like performance with zero-cost abstractions while enforcing memory and thread safety via an ownership model that… | ||
| The Lead Developer London 2015 Highlights | 02m | |
Argues leadership success depends on changing how people work not just swapping frameworks and tools and claims a concrete hiring rule: never hire Rockstar… | ||
| nothing matches | ||