The Lead Developer New York 2018
2018-04-24
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]
who it's for
engineering managers, team leads, senior software engineers, site reliability engineers, product managers, software architects, devops engineers
topics
microservices migration traps; collaborative debugging techniques; universal apps architecture; error budgets; site reliability engineering practices; testing strategies; process design teams will follow; continuous culture; OpenAPI 3.0; scaling architecture and teams; incident management to reduce MTTR; inclusive standards for developers
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Revitalizing a cross-functional product org. | Deepa Subramaniam, Lara Hogan | 43m |
Revitalization finishes in nine months by doing specific things: map roles with Venn diagrams of responsibilities, require a narrative template and milestone… | ||
| Collaborative Debugging | Jackie Luo | 09m |
Claims that collaborative debugging stops repeated work by breadcrumbed hypotheses and asynchronous tag‑on/tag‑off investigations. Implements a lightweight… | ||
| Traps on the Path to Microservices | George Woskob | 22m |
Claim: adopting microservices without organizational readiness often increases architecture complexity and yields a distributed monolith. Implementation… | ||
| The Critical Career Path Conversation | John Riviello | 32m |
Managers end up doing more work while losing coding time, a move that management feels like entry-level for the first months; one person reports two years as… | ||
| Universal Apps: Architecture for the Modern Web | Elyse Kolker Gordon | 10m |
Claim: rendering pages on the server and sending serialized state lets the browser hydrate without repaints, giving immediate content for SEO and perceived… | ||
| Improving Reliability w/ Error Budgets & SRE | Liz Fong Jones | 30m |
Argues that reliability improves only when teams use concrete metrics and automation: define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, track a service level objective (example: 95th… | ||
| Need For Tests: Most Wanted | Rushaine McBean | 11m |
Advocates moving testing from marketing to practice: decouple client-side code so it’s testable, write fast unit tests for small functions, use integration… | ||
| Make the Right Thing the Easy Thing: Designing Processes Teams Will Actually Follow | Jason Lengstorf | 32m |
IBM inherits a business‑critical micro‑service with a bus factor of one and ends up rewriting it because no one else knows how it works. The talk argues for… | ||
| Amazing internships! | Silvia Esparrachiari | 12m |
Uses a 13-week model with a 10-week main project that must be deployable to someone outside the team, allocates week one for onboarding and the last week for… | ||
| The Continuous Culture | Kim van Wilgen | 31m |
Argues that moving to continuous delivery and DevOps retools company DNA by forcing experiments, faster feedback and small deployments rather than long… | ||
| Everything You Need to Know About OpenAPI 3.0 | Erin McKean | 09m |
OpenAPI 3.0 is shown to be concrete not just conceptual it adds servers, security schemes, tags and externalDocs that drive tooling rather than marketing… | ||
| Architecture & Teams at Less-than-Google Scale | Sam Kitajima-Kimbrel | 30m |
Compares concrete tradeoffs at non-Google scale: Uber builds an append-only schemaless key-value store that gains linear scaling but loses joins… | ||
| Better Incident Management to Reduce MTTR | Beth Long | 12m |
Claim: a skilled Incident Commander measurably reduces MTTR and stress by running an explicit incident response process and organizational playbooks. The IC… | ||
| The New Manager Death Spiral | Michael Lopp | 30m |
A worst-case cascade names the new manager death spiral: a single boss-affirmation leads to signing up for everything, slipping into fake delegation (bare… | ||
| Fear of the computer | Maggie Zhou | 22m |
A recipe for safe change: add instrumentation to get baselines, use feature flags and rollouts (ramp up by percentage of hosts or internal dogfooding) so… | ||
| Intersectional & Inclusive Standards for Developers | Patricia Realini | 35m |
Argues for a developer-facing standard for psychological safety with concrete practices: require Slack-first for accessible communication, delegate meaningful… | ||
| The Lead Developer New York 2018 Highlights | 01m | |
Claims that management builds others and that choosing management will revitalize your organization, backed only by assertions like promises this stuff works… | ||
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