The Lead Developer London 2018
2018-07-02..2018-07-03
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]
who it's for
lead developers, engineering managers, tech leads, senior developers, devops engineers, hiring managers, team leads
topics
legacy code rejuvenation; editing production data safely; managing distributed teams; ReasonML introduction; functional programming basics; CI/CD for humans; container operator practices; single page app migration; code review techniques; hiring with design thinking; building sustainable teams; goal setting workshops for managers
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How to Enhance the Skills of Experienced Developers | Clare Sudbery | 33m |
Describes concrete moves that get seasoned devs to adopt agile habits: running quick hands‑on workshops with a worked example (one cited on async/await in C#)… | ||
| Tips for Managing a Widely Distributed Team | Dirkjan Bussink | 33m |
Engineers manage a team of 28 across 11 countries and 6–7 timezones, grew from 10 to ~30 in six months, and prove distributed can scale. Work runs through… | ||
| Strategies to Edit Production Data | Julie Qiu | 29m |
Five concrete strategies from raw SQL to a built Script Runner service compare tradeoffs: a Google spreadsheet audit trail gives immediate logging with almost… | ||
| Junior.next() | Tara Ojo | 14m |
Junior developers progress fastest when given concrete opportunities and structures not platitudes: a grad rotation that let newcomers try Android and iOS… | ||
| Points Don’t Mean Prizes | Adrian Howard | 10m |
Argues that replacing story-point estimation with three concrete value questions — bin, thin, split — produces smaller stories that actually deliver… | ||
| Legacy Code: Big Rewrite or Progressive Rejuvenation? | Uberto Barbini | 32m |
Argues against a big rewrite and for progressive rejuvenation on a large finance system, citing three failed rewrite attempts and a recurring level 2 emergency… | ||
| Build a Better Hiring Process with Design Thinking | Crystal C. Yan | 28m |
Company scales from 15 to ~150 in three years and a hiring overhaul uses behavioral science plus human-centered design to cut bias and raise offer yield… | ||
| Functional Programming for Everyone | Marek Rogala | 10m |
Claims that adopting immutability eliminates shared‑state race conditions and makes unit testing pure functions trivial, demonstrates an imperative update… | ||
| Go Slow To Go Fast: Building Strong Foundations for Leadership | Alicia Liu | 39m |
Claim: building physical and mental foundations lets rapid leaders scale without burning out. Concrete moves: triathlon training plus daily meditation and… | ||
| The Hardest Scaling Challenge of All - Yourself | Christian McCarrick | 31m |
Claims specific fixes: manages 200 people in 10 offices and uses a Google manager feedback survey for quantitative feedback; enforces tracking in JIRA to… | ||
| Introduction to ReasonML | Jack Lewin | 10m |
ReasonML presents OCaml syntax reworked for JavaScript ergonomics and claims 100% type coverage with a sound type system that eliminates runtime type errors… | ||
| CI/CD For Humans | Jackie Balzer | 28m |
Concrete CI CD platform called Moonbeam that Behance built and uses deploys via GitHub forks, Jenkins and Hubot with CI gating and two-approver pull requests… | ||
| Building Sustainable Teams to Handle Uncertainty | Jenny Duckett | 33m |
A team that cycles 30 people over 18 months narrows to two originals yet still ships by doing concrete things: focus the whole group on one measurable goal… | ||
| How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Meetings | Menno van Slooten | 13m |
A lead role starts as a loss of tangible output but turns into leverage: manages a group of 15 front‑end developers, notices people outperforming titles… | ||
| Knowing Me, Knowing You - Growing Teams to Continuously Deliver | Pia Nilsson | 22m |
Spotify CD team runs thousands of build pipelines daily and wants faster flow, so the team adds WIP limits, TDD, DDD and mandatory pairing/mobbing, then layers… | ||
| The Art of Giving and Receiving Code Reviews Gracefully | Alexandra Hill | 09m |
Argues that code review quality improves by treating reviews as conflict to manage not critiques to win and uses conflict‑resolution patterns plus a simple… | ||
| The Container Operator’s Manual | Alice Goldfuss | 38m |
Says containers work well for ephemeral stateless services and testing but fight with stateful databases — advice: prefer cloud DBs or keep containerized… | ||
| Using Agile Techniques to Build a More Inclusive Team | Kevin Goldsmith | 39m |
Claims concrete steps to increase psychological safety: run a post-it joint working agreement in first one-on-ones (ten–15 minutes silent brainstorming, photo… | ||
| Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? | Nickolas Means | 37m |
A minute-by-minute reconstruction explains why operators switch off emergency cooling: misread pressurizer level, a stuck pilot-operated relief valve, a… | ||
| First Steps as a Lead | Dan Persa | 15m |
Becoming a lead starts with a concrete plan: a three-month transition with an assigned mentor, a department-created step‑by‑step process and early pairing that… | ||
| How to Run Awesome Tech Internships! | Beverley Newing | 16m |
Gives concrete rules and evidence: recommends six months as the right internship length, argues pay must meet the living wage not the national minimum, cites… | ||
| How to Survive the Single Page App-ocalypse | Jim Newbery | 13m |
Claim: many Single Page Apps that teams build around five years after the SPA boom become slow, buggy and resistant to change and SPAs damage businesses when… | ||
| Goal-Setting Workshops for Managers | Melinda Seckington | 13m |
Managers run goal-setting workshops during 1-on-1s that generate wide-ranging ideas first, then narrow to achievable goals; the format is one session or split… | ||
| The Lead Developer London 2018 Highlights | Meri Williams | 02m |
Conference highlight reel from The Lead Developer UK 2018 shows crowd scenes, applause and brief soundbites but contains no concrete claims, no tools, no code… | ||
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