The Lead Developer New York 2017
2017-02-13..2017-02-14
New York, United States
[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]
as the organisers put it
Join over 2,000 engineering leaders on September 8 & 9, 2027 for talks, activities, and strategies to lead through constant change.
who it's for
engineering managers, tech leads, team leads, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, frontend developers
topics
Slack and Jira for remote work; developer support rotations; retrospective facilitation formats; Polymer web components; observability with Prometheus and Elastic; correlation ids for tracing; Ethereum Solidity smart contracts; lending privilege for diversity; DevOps scaling practices; monitoring and provisioning teams
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed Teams | Maria Gutierrez, Glenn Vanderburg | 33m |
Clear-eyed, practical advice on making distributed teams work: examples and numbers, not platitudes. The report cites up to 200 engineers managed across… | ||
| The right ingredients for your perfect team | Kevin Goldsmith | 29m |
Argues that deliberate strategy beats buzzwords and gives concrete hiring choices: build a GPU and multi‑core image engine with a domain‑specific language or… | ||
| The building built on stilts | Nickolas Means | 34m |
A famed structural calculation shows Citicorp Center is vulnerable: quartering winds produce 40% higher load on four chevrons than original design assumes… | ||
| Making "developers on support" work for everyone | Camille Acey | 09m |
Claim: a targeted rotation of engineers into support reduces load and keeps product velocity better than full all-hands experiments. Implementation: Some-hands… | ||
| Ryn Daniels at The Lead Developer New York 2017 | Ryn Daniels | 27m |
Argues that effective DevOps scales organizations by applying the four pillars of Collaboration Affinity Scaling Tools and treating organizational change like… | ||
| Chris Lorenzo at The Lead Developer New York 2017 | Chris Lorenzo | 10m |
Comcast runs sites built with Google Polymer — Xfi and parts of X1 — and claims over 500 Polymer components in production. The talk argues web components are… | ||
| Leads go home and take your reports with you | Rafael Lopez Diez | 15m |
Workaholism presents like an addiction, causes burnout, low job satisfaction, health complaints and poorer social life, and it costs firms about 1.5 times the… | ||
| Retrospectives | Jessie Link | 32m |
Five concrete retrospective formats are explained with running notes and caveats: Four Ls (I liked, I lacked, I longed for, I learned), draw the sprint… | ||
| Arushi Srivastava at The Lead Developer New York 2017 | Arushi Srivastava | 13m |
Separates blockchain from Bitcoin and claims the useful outcome is tamper‑resistant shared ledgers that cut intermediaries; cites financial services as leading… | ||
| Leading by speaking | Lara Hogan | 29m |
Concrete tactics appear: the central claim is that public-speaking fears can be harnessed to improve leadership; concrete tools include practicing with a… | ||
| Maria Gomez at The Lead Developer New York 2017 | Maria Gomez | 15m |
Claims that observability makes microservices maintainable in production and then explains how: use service discovery: client/server-side registries to handle… | ||
| Lending Privilege | Anjuan Simmons | 29m |
Argues that concrete acts of credibility lending, access lending, and expertise lending move diversity beyond slogans: cite Leonard Nimoy forcing equal pay… | ||
| Neil Kimmett at The Lead Developer New York 2017 | Neil Kimmett | 10m |
Introduced in 2014 and open‑sourced in 2015, Swift claims strong static typing, type inference that removes redundant annotations, and ARC for classes; structs… | ||
| You can't always get what you want | Rebecca Murphey | 30m |
A year-long effort creates a front-end practice at Indeed starting from one engineer, with concrete wins: a 90th percentile rendering time in India drops from… | ||
| Congrats! You're the tech lead - now what? | Eryn O'Neil | 32m |
Defines the tech lead as owner of the technological vision and gives tactical practices: use burndowns and hours and tickets to make scope arguments, write… | ||
| Steve Faulkner at The Lead Developer New York 2017 | Steve Faulkner | 10m |
Claim: Bustle runs a real production platform on AWS using Lambda and API Gateway with 10–20 million Lambda calls per day, server-side rendering of JS, a JSON… | ||
| The Elements of Scaling | Camille Fournier | 30m |
Grows an engineering org from 15 to 65 engineers, rewrites a Drupal PHP monolith into a Ruby API front end, and cuts a brittle weekly release process that… | ||
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