The Lead Developer New York 2019
2019-04-30
New York, NY, 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, tech leads, senior engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, people managers
topics
career ladder design and rollout; modular monolith componentization; scaling infrastructure organizations; systems thinking for product quality; career-conversation frameworks; leading through acquisition and change; remote-first collaboration practices; resilience engineering and chaos testing; technical leadership and glue work; burnout detection and remediation; Kotlin Multiplatform cross-platform
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Creating a career ladder for engineers | Marco Rogers | 32m |
Concrete experience creating career ladders at multiple companies scales a three level starter kit into a seven level system, anchors promotion decisions with… | ||
| Designing software that maximizes developer productivity | Kirsten Westeinde | 17m |
Argues that a modular monolith — splitting a Rails codebase into named components with strict public APIs and owned data — cuts coupling enough to restore… | ||
| Scaling yourself during hypergrowth | Julia Grace | 33m |
Gives concrete playbook: grew an infra org from ~10 to ~100 while company engineering headcount moves from <100 to >500 and daily active users climb into the… | ||
| Principles for managing product quality | Kwame Thomison | 17m |
Claims systems thinking gives the highest leverage for lasting quality, and backs it with concrete examples: a small tool for predicting system behavior built… | ||
| Crucial career conversations: a framework in practice | Adrienne Lowe | 32m |
Adopts Kim Scott’s three-stage career-conversation framework—life story, dreams, 18-month plan—but experiments heavily in practice: uses two concrete… | ||
| Leading engineering teams through massive change | Yvette Pasqua | 10m |
Framework maps three time phases—acute phase, constant rapid change, new normal—against three leader behaviors: communication, motivation, focus. Concrete… | ||
| Remote-first teams work better | Nassim Kammah | 26m |
Argues that concrete changes improve collaboration: everyone uses video dial‑in with room audio or a moderator controls turn‑taking in meetings, a policy of… | ||
| Resilience engineering mythbusting | Will Gallego | 11m |
Argues that true resilience is about decision‑making and learning—not redundancy—so practical claims: high‑availability, load balancers and caching are… | ||
| Technical leadership and glue work | Tanya Reilly | 28m |
Argues that doing onboarding, docs, roadmap and unblocking is real technical leadership but often goes unrewarded and can stall careers. Gives data: women… | ||
| Being right is only half the battle | Rod Begbie | 27m |
Three concrete tactics for getting things done: read minds by asking clarifying questions, using playback and nailing down blur words (e g define “end of day”… | ||
| Managing the burnout burndown | Aneika L Simmons, Anjuan Simmons | 34m |
A practical three-part method uses the burndown metaphor: burn down barriers, burn down distractions, burn down illness. Backed by Gallup and a Blind survey… | ||
| The future of cross-platform is Native | Justin Mancinelli | 11m |
Claim: Kotlin Multiplatform narrows the gap between cross-platform and native by compiling shared logic to Objective‑C format for iOS, JVM for Android and… | ||
| Communicating and documenting architectural decisions | David Ayers | 30m |
Three practical techniques present concrete outcomes: adopting lightweight architectural decision records stored as Markdown files in Git captures the why and… | ||
| How to detangle and understand production | Liz Fong Jones | 25m |
Argues for concrete practices: define 99.9% SLO over 30 days on business events, measure SLIs like HTTP 200 under 300ms, and use error budget to decide ship… | ||
| Welcome from our Premier Sponsor, CodementorX - Weiting Liu | Weiting Liu | 03m |
Conference opener states sponsor claims: CodementorX offers to hire world-class remote developers in 3 days, backed by a network of 12,000+ pre-vetted… | ||
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