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💥 Issue 101: "I hate AI software dev", Agents are destroying Open Source, How to fix vibe coding, MCPs future, Building trust in teams, ...

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Happy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #101!

This week, we have 10 (‼️) featured talks & podcasts. There’s tons of great content to watch and listen this week and I don’t want to take much of your time, so let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner” from AIE Europe 2026
Conference ⸱ +110k views ⸱ Apr 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 25s
tldw: All Mario Zechner wanted was a modest coding agent that was truly his own. Then Peter Steinberger decided to make it the agentic core of OpenClaw, and suddenly pi became collateral. In this talk the creator of libGDX explains why and how he built pi, reflects on how agents are destroying OSS and delivers a plea to slow “the f***” down.
“State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger” from AIE Europe 2026
Conference ⸱ +102k views ⸱ Apr 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 12s
tldw: Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, gives the five month update on what he calls the fastest growing open source project in history. He covers what it’s really like to maintain it: security, community, misinformation and the burden of being at the center of it all. The keynote is followed by an audience Q&A.
“The Future of MCP — David Soria Parra, Anthropic” from AIE Europe 2026
Conference ⸱ +93k views ⸱ Apr 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 46s
tldw: David Soria Parra, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and co-creator of the Model Context Protocol, shares what he believes will be true for agents in 2026 and how MCP plays a part in that future.
“How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code - A Deep Dive” from JavaOne 2026
Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Apr 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 23s
tldw: John Rose, Senior JVM Architect at Oracle and lead on Project Valhalla, takes us deep into how the JVM actually optimizes generic code. Using a QuickSort example, he shows how type profiling, inlining and devirtualization often match C++ template speed, why profile pollution can degrade performance and how Valhalla’s value classes and generic specialization change the picture.
“try! Swift Tokyo 2026: The Evolution of SwiftUI” from try! Swift Tokyo 2026
Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Apr 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 37s
tldw: Natalia Panferova, former Apple SwiftUI engineer and author of SwiftUI Fundamentals, shares an insider’s perspective on what’s actually driving SwiftUI’s rapid API evolution. You’ll learn how and why SwiftUI changes, how to evaluate when to move from older APIs to newer ones and why embracing these changes is essential for building robust apps.
“Algorithms Demystified | Dylan Beattie” from Build Stuff 2025
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 27s
tldw: Dylan Beattie, Microsoft MVP and creator of the Rockstar programming language, breaks down the world of algorithms without the fear, formulas or academic fog that usually surrounds them. Using music, pub crawls, Scrabble, sorting, spell checkers and real-world engineering stories, he shows how algorithms actually work, why they matter and when developers should understand them deeply even if they never implement one from scratch. It’s a playful but powerful guide to one of software engineering’s most important foundations.
“Building Trust in Teams | Richard Campbell” from Build Stuff 2025
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 01s
tldw: Today businesses run on software, and the quality of that software is directly shaped by the level of trust between the people who build it. Richard Campbell, co-host of .NET Rocks, shares how you can improve trust on your own team, drawing on years of experience building it with time, effort, honesty and pizza.
“Most Data Teams Are Doing It Wrong” from Data Engineering Central Podcast
Podcast ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 49s
tldl: Most data teams think they’re building value. In reality, they’ve become ticket queues. In this episode Chris Gambill, a veteran of Fortune 500 data teams, digs into what separates senior engineers from true strategic operators, the biggest early-career mistakes, Databricks vs Snowflake without the marketing hype and why the classic problems that have plagued data teams for decades still haven’t gone away.
“998: How to Fix Vibe Coding” from Syntax
Podcast ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 35s
tldl: Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski talk about making AI coding more reliable using deterministic tools like fallow, knip, ESLint, StyleLint and Sentry. They cover code quality analysis, linting strategies, headless browsers, task workflows and how to enforce better patterns so AI stops guessing and starts producing maintainable, predictable code.
“Episode 509: I hate AI software dev, so should I become a manager and leading, not doing” from Soft Skills Engineering
Podcast ⸱ Apr 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 09s
tldl: In this week’s episode Dave Smith and Jamison Dance tackle two listener questions that hit close to home. A senior engineer at big tech no longer enjoys the job in the age of AI and wonders whether engineering management is the right pivot. And Paolo, newly stepped into a senior role, watches projects drift because he’s trying to let juniors lead: how do you give real ownership without becoming either the micromanager or the absentee leader?

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💥 Issue 100: Addy Osmani on AI, Stop Using JWTs, How Netflix Uses Java, State of Vue 2026, How DHH uses AI, Visual Journey Into K8S Networking, ...

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:03:25 GMT

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #100!

It’s pretty incredible we’re hitting the 100th issue this week!

When I started Tech Talks Weekly two years ago, this was just an experiment. My intention was to simply share great talks I’d watch myself with a small audience of passionate folks. Nothing changed besides that this audience is now pretty huge. Tech Talks Weekly is likely to exceed 10,000 readers in a month or two, which is absolutely amazing.

Thank you for being part of this journey 🙏

Let’s now jump straight into the talks!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Addy Osmani on Why 2026 Seniors are just highly-paid Code Editors” from GitNation Podcast
Podcast ⸱ Apr 10, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:36:31
tldl: What happens when AI starts touching four times more files than it needs? Why are 2026 seniors spending 66% of their time fixing almost-right AI code? Addy Osmani, Head of Chrome Developer Experience at Google, unpacks the 4x PR Bloat Crisis, vibe coding vs engineering rigor, why prompt engineering is dead and how context engineering keeps agents productive. You’ll also get a first look at Chrome DevTools MCP and runtime-aware agents.
“How Netflix Uses Java - 2026 Edition” from JavaOne 2026
Conference ⸱ +36k views ⸱ Apr 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 39s
tldw: The 2026 update on how Netflix uses Java to power your favorite shows. You’ll see how they build services with Spring Boot, DGS/GraphQL or gRPC and how they keep more than 3,000 Java services consistently updated across frameworks, libraries and JDK versions. They also share practical lessons you can apply in your own organization.
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“Stop Using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for Authorization! by Sohan Maheshwar” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Apr 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 24s
tldw: JWTs are everywhere and for good reason: they’re easy to pass around, self-contained and standardized. In this lightning talk, Sohan Maheshwar explores why using them for authorization comes with serious pitfalls, especially in distributed systems. You’ll learn the technical and security limitations of JWT-based authorization and why it’s fundamentally incompatible with modern applications citing the infamous New Enemy Problem described in Google’s Zanzibar paper.
“An Immersive and Visual Journey Into Kubernetes Networking - Benoit Entzmann, Feesh” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Apr 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 51s
tldw: Kubernetes networking is still intimidating for many, but what if you could see it to actually understand it? Benoit Entzmann from Feesh takes you on an immersive visual journey, following packets through imagined realms and transitioning from the familiar land of traditional networking. Have you ever been inside a cluster and experienced routing like a roller-coaster?
“Gearing up to Java 25: Key Language Features by Venkat Subramaniam” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Apr 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 14s
tldw: Venkat Subramaniam, Java Champion and author of several Pragmatic Programmers titles, takes a quick look at the current state of Java, dives into the most recent features landing in version 25 and discusses what’s ahead.
“Tracing Java Performance Bottlenecks by Victor Rentea” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Apr 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 16s
tldw: Victor Rentea, Java Champion and independent trainer, explains how to efficiently zoom in on a bottleneck using OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, metrics and execution profiling. After learning to read a flame graph, you’ll trace typical backend bottlenecks like resource starvation, time-consuming interceptors and the unexpected causes you can rarely guess right.
“Stream tricks that you don’t wanna miss ! by Aicha Laafia” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 23s
tldw: JDK 25 makes streams a lot more fun with Stream Gatherers for batching, sliding, and grouping without weird collector code. It also shows off String Templates so SQL, JSON, and logs stay clean and safer from injection. Expect live coding, a bunch of small tricks you can steal, and some memes. If you write Java and still think streams are boring, this is worth a watch.
“Are We Still Doing OOP? 🤔 Let’s Tackle Anemic Domain Models Together by Michael Koers” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 31s
tldw: Java is an object-oriented language, but are we actually writing object-oriented code? Michael Koers, a software consultant, walks through a repeating anti-pattern: splitting data from logic. You’ll learn why Anemic Domain Models clash with OOP and how to tackle them to write more structurally sound and maintainable code, especially alongside design methodologies like Domain-Driven Design.
“try! Swift Tokyo 2026: Swift Outside Apple” from try! Swift Tokyo 2026
Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Apr 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 26s
tldw: Swift has quietly escaped the Apple ecosystem, and Joannis Orlandos takes you on a tour of what that actually looks like in practice. You’ll see the same code running on Server, Embedded Linux, Android, WebAssembly or iOS, with a clear picture of what works today and where the rough edges still remain. Whether you author libraries or are just curious about Swift beyond Xcode, you’ll leave knowing what’s possible and what’s coming next.
“GeeCON 2025: Baruch Sadogursky - Coding Fast and Slow: Applying Kahneman’s Insights to Improve Dev.” from GeeCON 2025
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 07s
tldw: What does behavioral psychology have to do with coding? Baruch Sadogursky, a seasoned developer advocate and long-time JFrog contributor, draws on Daniel Kahneman’s work on fast and slow thinking to show how mental energy shapes your decisions and productivity. You’ll walk away with practical techniques for reducing context switching, protecting focus and saving the clarity you need for critical work at the end of a long day.
“DHH’s new way of writing code” from The Pragmatic Engineer
Podcast ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 01:47:21
tldl: David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and CTO of 37signals, recently told Lex Fridman he types out all his code himself. Six months later things look very different. In this episode DHH shares his new agent-first approach to building software, how he barely writes code by hand anymore and how AI agents are reshaping the way he explores ideas without lowering his standards for quality.
“Evan You - State of Vue 2026” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Apr 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 26s
tldw: The most anticipated annual update from Evan You, the creator of Vue. Expect roadmap highlights, a look back at the last decade, major version retrospectives, deep dives into internal features and performance improvements, ecosystem growth and his future vision for the framework.
“Daniel Roe - State of Nuxt 2026” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Apr 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 57s
tldw: The highly anticipated State of Nuxt, delivered by Daniel Roe, Nuxt core team lead. Previous editions unveiled Nuxt 3, the Nitro runtime, DevTools or the full-stack identity story, and with everything that happened in 2025 the team is ready to show what 2026 holds. A must-watch if you build with Nuxt imo.

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💥 Issue 99: The Aging Programmer, Post-Quantum Cryptography, AWS Lambda Performance Tuning, Lock-Free Programming in Java, What’s Missing in Postgres, ...

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:40:31 GMT

Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #99!

Let’s jump straight into the issue, but before we start, make sure to check out a recent special edition:

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ Apr 07, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 33s
tldw: Martin Fowler and Kent Beck sit down at The Pragmatic Summit to discuss how the biggest disruptions in software have played out and what makes the AI shift different.
“AWS Lambda Performance Tuning | Serverless Office Hours” from AWS Events
Podcast ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 01:00:04
tldl: This is a nice walk through of configuration and code-level improvements that directly impact your Lambda function’s speed and efficiency. You’ll learn how to optimize memory settings for the right balance between cost and performance.
“GeeCON 2025: Andrzej Grzesik, Jarosław Pałka - Gentle Introduction to Lock-Free Programming in Java” from GeeCON 2025
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 06, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 35s
tldw: Java Champion Andrzej Grzesik and Jarosław Pałka introduce us to lock-free programming techniques in Java, from progress guarantees and Compare-And-Swap to the infamous ABA problem. They implement three lock-free data structures: a stack, a queue and a linked list, showing when lock-free methods improve scalability and when sticking with locks is more appropriate.
“Devnexus 2026 - Hands on Embabel - Rod Johnson” from Devnexus 2026
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 07, 2026 ⸱ 00h 59m 05s
tldw: Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, gives a practical introduction to Embabel which is his new Kotlin-based agent framework for the JVM.
“Story: The Aging Programmer” from CoRecursive
Podcast ⸱ Apr 02, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 52s
tldl: Kate Gregory has been writing C++ for over forty years. She surveyed hundreds of software engineers about getting older and found that the things people feared most, like memory, stamina and keeping up, weren’t the real threats. The single factor that predicted whether you’d age well or badly had nothing to do with your body at all: the opponent isn’t aging, it’s the story about aging.
“What’s Missing in Postgres?” from Postgres FM
Podcast ⸱ Apr 03, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 58s
tldl: Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL core team member since 1996 and VP at EDB, joins Nik and Michael to discuss what’s still missing in Postgres. After nearly 30 years of working on the project, Bruce explores the features and capabilities PostgreSQL still needs to tackle next.
“Learning API Styles • Lukasz Dynowski & Sam Newman • GOTO 2026” from GOTO Podcast
Podcast ⸱ Apr 02, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:31:26
tldl: Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices, sits down with Lukasz Dynowski, co-author of the new O’Reilly book Learning API Styles, for a deep dive into a subject most developers think they already understand. They explore the trade-offs of REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and other common API styles from both a network and architecture perspective.
“Java and Post-Quantum Cryptography” from JavaOne 2026
Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 07s
tldw: The security of the world’s digital infrastructure relies on algorithms like RSA and Diffie-Hellman, but quantum computing threatens to break them. Sean Mullan, Technical Lead of the Java Security Libraries Team at Oracle, shows how the Java Platform is preparing by adding support for Post-Quantum Cryptography. Learn about the PQC features already delivered and what’s coming in JDK 27 and beyond.

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Issue 98: 🎉 9,000 subscribers

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:07:26 GMT

Happy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #98!

I’m kicking off this issue with a very exiciting update:

Tech Talks Weekly has just exceeded 9,000 subscribers 🎉 🎉

This is an incredible number and when I started Tech Talks Weekly, I’d never think it’d grow this much! Especially since I’ve spent $0 on marketing and have never actively promoted this project. Every single one of you has come here organically, mostly from word of mouth.

I’m incredibly grateful you are here and wanted to thank you for your continuous support 🙏 Your support, whether it’s just opening an email, clicking, liking, or sharing it with a friend means a lot and motivates me to keep going.

I also really appreciate that in a world where “AI is everything” and where we’re constantly bombarded with low-quality, short-form content, there is still a sizeable audience who genuinely values long-form high-quality content like conference talks.

Let’s keep it up and thank you!

Now let’s jump right into the issue, but before we start, make sure to check out a recent special edition:

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there’s nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summit” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
Conference ⸱ +10k views ⸱ Mar 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 49s
tldw: If AI can replicate nearly any product quickly and cheaply, what’s the point of building anything at all? Chip Huyen, the author of two excellent books Designing Machine Learning Systems (Manning) and AI Engineering (O’Reilly), confronts this question: sharing how “competitive moats” are shifting from how to build to what to build, why code review norms break down when AI generates large chunks of code and what it means for mentorship and human agency. In this talk, you’ll learn where real value lies when execution becomes cheap. I highly recommend it!
“Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: A Conversation with Lorin Hochstein” from InfoQ
Podcast ⸱ Mar 31, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:51:42
tldl: Automated fault injection can introduce basic robustness, but it cannot replicate the understanding that comes from mitigating real-world failures. Lorin Hochstein, co-author of Chaos Engineering and Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb, explores how adding more reliability can ironically lead to complexity that creates new failures and why we still haven’t learned to make systems resilient to unknown failure modes.
“The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages by Kevlin Henney - Voxxed Days CERN ‘26” from Voxxed Days CERN 2026
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 51s
tldw: Each programming language embeds a philosophy of how to think about code. Kevlin Henney, the author of two legendary books: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, takes us on a tour of their past, present and future. We’ll learn why mainstream languages are still embracing ideas that are decades old and how current trends from FOSS to LLMs will shape what comes next.
“JavaScript in 2026 by Christian Woerz” from Voxxed Days Zurich 2026
Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Apr 01, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 09s
tldw: We often reach for solutions from old Stack Overflow posts or ask Claude, only to fall back on patterns that have been around forever. Christian Wörz, who is recognized as Microsoft MVP, explores the modern ECMAScript features you’re probably not taking advantage of yet and replaces everyday outdated techniques with the cleaner, more powerful tools the language now offers.
“Production-Ready GenAI with Open Models for Java Teams” from JavaOne 2026
Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Mar 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 28s
tldw: Brian Benz, who is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft and Java Champion, shows how Java teams can select, integrate and operate LLMs using LangChain4j and vector search, covering everything from benchmarking and JVM memory footprints to RAG quality metrics and rollback strategies.
“Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)” from The Pragmatic Engineer
Podcast ⸱ Apr 01, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 01:39:35
tldl: When Thuan Pham joined Uber as its first CTO, there were 40 engineers, 30,000 rides per day and the system crashed multiple times a week. He goes deep into how they rebuilt Uber from a monolith to microservices, launched in China in just five months, and shares how he sees AI changing software engineering.
“How to (Re)start Your Java Journey in 2026” from JavaOne 2026
Conference ⸱ +10k views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 29s
tldw: Whether you’re new to Java, returning after a break or looking to modernize your approach, Richard Fichtner (Java Champion) helps you navigate the Java ecosystem of 2026 with confidence. Drawing on practical experience, he highlights the tools, frameworks and practices that make the greatest impact in day-to-day development.
“High-Speed Crypto Trading: JVM Techniques Behind Bitvavo’s µs Revolution - Oleg Lobanov, Marcos Maia” from Voxxed Days CERN 2026
Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 47s
tldw: Achieving single-digit microsecond latencies in crypto trading isn’t just ambitious: it’s transformative. Oleg Lobanov and Marcos Maia, Staff Engineers at Bitvavo (Europe’s largest crypto exchange), walk through the advanced JVM optimizations behind their rebuilt core architecture: minimized garbage collection, object pooling, reliable UDP and high-performance ring buffers that made it all possible.
“A Deep Dive Into Advanced TypeScript - A Live Coding Expedition by Christian Wörz” from Voxxed Days CERN 2026
Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 28s
tldw: Christian Wörz (Microsoft MVP) takes us again in this Tech Talks Weekly issue on a hands-on live coding expedition, this time with TypeScript. Explore often overlooked yet powerful features like recursive types, type permutations and a CSS validator written entirely in TypeScript, each brought to life through real-world examples.
“Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA - Marit van Dijk” from Voxxed Days CERN 2026
Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 41s
tldw: IntelliJ is designed to keep us in the flow with its powerful editor, refactorings, navigation and smart features for reading and writing code. Marit van Dijk, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, Java Champion and co-author of an excellent book called 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know, shows how the IDE supports the entire workflow so we can be a happier and more productive developers.
“Database Connection Pool Sizing - Demystified! by Jasmin Fluri” from Voxxed Days Zurich 2026
Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Apr 01, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 46s
tldw: Do you think a bigger connection pool means better performance? Jasmin Fluri (Oracle ACE Pro) explains why oversized pools actually harm throughput. Using mathematical principles like Kingman’s law, she shows how adding more connections can increase waiting times and equips us with practical formulas to size our pools optimally.
“Why CodeRabbit gave away a million dollars to open source maintainers”
Podcast ⸱ Apr 01, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 23s
tldl: CodeRabbit made a bold commitment: a million dollars in cash for open source maintainers, not just free product access. Erik Thorelli, DevRel lead at CodeRabbit, explains what 100,000 open source projects using AI code review reveal about how developers actually work and what maintainers really need to keep critical projects alive.

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💥 Issue 97

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:05:01 GMT

Happy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #97!

Tech Talks Weekly is back after a short break. There is a lot new exciting updates coming up soon, so stay tuned!

This issue includes everything that was published over the last 3 weeks. That means: 371 new conference talks and 60 new podcasts.

Before we start, make sure to check out:

Now, let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Uber: Leading engineering through an agentic shift - The Pragmatic Summit” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
Podcast ⸱ Mar 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 39s
tldl: Uber shares what it looks like to run “agentic” engineering at scale, starting with toil automation and ending with migrations. It walks through their multi agent workflow model, background agents, and the platform pieces that make it work. It covers logs, observability, and debugging when agents start doing work on their own. Watch the Q&A at the end, too, as it gets into the orgzational and people problems.
“Hijacking Google’s CI/CD Through Prompt Injection:The New Era of AI-Based Exploits-Mackenzie Jackson” from NDC Security 2026
Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Mar 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 34s
tldw: Prompt injection is a serious threat once you wire LLMs into CI/CD and give them tokens and shell access. This talk shows how a prompt hidden in untrusted text can turn into real command execution inside GitHub Actions. It walks through a CI/CD exploit pattern found at Google.
“Why 10x Engineers Fail: The Culture Gap in Tech Hiring” from QCon London 2026
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Mar 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 28s
tldw: Most technical interviews skip the most crucial part which is cultural alignment. This talk shows why chatting about culture chat at the end fails, even when the candidate is a so called 10x engineer. It shows how to “test” for culture during coding and system design rounds.
“Why Most Agentic AI Fails (And How to Fix It)” from The InfoQ Podcast
Podcast ⸱ Mar 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 32s
tldl: AI agents are non-deterministic. This talk walks through what breaks when you move from simple automation to systems that act on their own. It also treats token spend like the new cloud bill and explains why costs can explode fast.
“Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
Conference ⸱ +23k views ⸱ Mar 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 20s
tldw: Coding agents can write real code, but only if you treat them like untrusted teammates, lean on TDD, and take prompt injection seriously.
“The Software Engineer 2030: From Coder To AI Orchestrator?”
Podcast ⸱ Mar 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 59s
tldl: This episode argues the 2030 job is less typing code and more steering AI while keeping strong fundamentals. There is a good section on what skills still matter when tools get smarter.
“PostgreSQL Performance Mastery: Tuning and Optimization Strategies”
Podcast ⸱ Mar 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 59m 21s
tldl: You’ll learn how to spot real bottlenecks, tune queries, and adjust “the right” knobs. You’ll also learn what breaks in high traffic and how to get more out of the same hardware.

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🏆 100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2025

Tech Talks Weekly — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:13:42 GMT

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and welcome to this very special edition of Tech Talks Weekly!

Following tradition, I’ve put together a complete list of the top 100 most watched Software Engineering talks presented in 2025 across almost every Software Engineering conference around the world.

It’s probably no surprise that most of the talks are about AI. Exactly one year ago, in March 2025, we heard AI will write 100% of the code by the end of the year. I think this prediction was remarkably accurate and it’s is clearly reflected in this year’s talks.

The most-watched talk this year is AWS re:Invent 2025 keynote by Werner Vogels. I’ve always been a big fan of Werner’s keynotes. Sadly, this year marked his final re:Invent keynote and his message was simple yet profound: the future belongs to developers who are capable of taking full ownership, thinking in systems, staying extremely curious, and use AI with intention. He called it the “Renaissance developer”. You’ll find the link below.

That said, there is a pattern you’ll observe among the rest: instead of asking whether AI will change software engineering, most speakers are now focused on how to work effectively with it. At the same time, many talks also cover the core challenges that come with this transition: reliability (yes, some teams now have 2x more incidents), security (well… is there any, really?), and the fact that having strong engineering skills are still essential (because now tech debt can be generated 10x faster!).

Enough talking.

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🏆 100 Most Watched Talks Of 2025

“AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels”
Werner Vogels • AWS re:Invent 2025
+13m views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 16m 18s
“Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check (at LDX3 by LeadDev)”
Gergely Orosz • LDX3 2025
+1m views ⸱ Jul 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 18s
“The New Code — Sean Grove, OpenAI”
Sean Grove • AI Engineer 2025
+1m views ⸱ Jul 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 21m 36s
“Don’t Build Agents, Build Skills Instead – Barry Zhang & Mahesh Murag, Anthropic”
Barry Zhang, Mahesh Murag • AI Engineer 2025
+857k views ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 22s
“How We Build Effective Agents: Barry Zhang, Anthropic”
Barry Zhang • AI Engineer 2025
+409k views ⸱ Apr 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 09s
“No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases – Dex Horthy, HumanLayer”
Dex Horthy • AI Engineer 2025
+377k views ⸱ Dec 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 31s
“Building Agents with Model Context Protocol - Full Workshop with Mahesh Murag of Anthropic”
Mahesh Murag • AI Engineer 2025
+325k views ⸱ Mar 01, 2025 ⸱ 01h 44m 12s
“”I shipped code I don’t understand and I bet you have too” – Jake Nations, Netflix”
Jake Nations • AI Engineer 2025
+319k views ⸱ Dec 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 57s
“Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) - Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford”
Yegor Denisov-Blanch • AI Engineer 2025
+293k views ⸱ Jul 23, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 12s
“How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition”
Paul Bakker • JavaOne 2025
+286k views ⸱ Apr 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 43s
“12-Factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications — Dex Horthy, HumanLayer”
Dex Horthy • AI Engineer 2025
+262k views ⸱ Jul 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 06s
“Building and evaluating AI Agents — Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil”
Sayash Kapoor • AI Engineer 2025
+220k views ⸱ Apr 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 00s
“Challenges and Benefits of Upgrading Sea of Thieves From C++14 to C++20 - Keith Stockdale ACCU 2025”
Keith Stockdale • ACCU 2025
+207k views ⸱ Aug 22, 2025 ⸱ 01h 04m 40s
“RAG Agents in Prod: 10 Lessons We Learned — Douwe Kiela, creator of RAG”
Douwe Kiela • AI Engineer 2025
+174k views ⸱ Apr 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 56s
“2025 in LLMs so far, illustrated by Pelicans on Bicycles — Simon Willison”
Simon Willison • AI Engineer 2025
+157k views ⸱ Jul 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 30s
“Rails World 2025 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson”
David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) • Railsworld 2025
+143k views ⸱ Sep 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 03m 55s
“Claude Code & the evolution of agentic coding — Boris Cherny, Anthropic”
Boris Cherny • AI Engineer 2025
+131k views ⸱ Jul 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 12s
“Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - Jerry Nixon - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
Jerry Nixon • NDC Copenhagen 2025
+125k views ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 01h 03m 07s
“Building AI Agents that actually automate Knowledge Work - Jerry Liu, LlamaIndex”
Jerry Liu • AI Engineer 2025
+121k views ⸱ Jun 24, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 57s
“Building Multimodal AI Agents From Scratch — Apoorva Joshi, MongoDB”
Apoorva Joshi • AI Engineer 2025
+113k views ⸱ Jun 27, 2025 ⸱ 00h 36m 58s
“Architecting Agent Memory: Principles, Patterns, and Best Practices — Richmond Alake, MongoDB”
Richmond Alake • AI Engineer 2025
+113k views ⸱ Jun 27, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 37s
“Reinforcement Learning for Agents - Will Brown, ML Researcher at Morgan Stanley”
Will Brown • AI Engineer 2025
+109k views ⸱ Mar 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 17s
“[Full Workshop] Reinforcement Learning, Kernels, Reasoning, Quantization & Agents — Daniel Han”
Daniel Han • AI Engineer 2025
+106k views ⸱ Jul 19, 2025 ⸱ 02h 42m 28s
“Defying Gravity - Kevin Hou, Google DeepMind”
Kevin Hou • AI Engineer 2025
+102k views ⸱ Dec 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 10s
“Creative UIs with Compose | Chris Horner”
Chris Horner • KotlinConf 2025
+94k views ⸱ Jul 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 39s
“The Future of Rust Web Applications - Greg Johnston”
Greg Johnston • Rust Nation UK 2025
+93k views ⸱ Feb 26, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 18s
“Minimax M2: Building the #1 Open Model – Olive Song, MiniMax”
Olive Song • AI Engineer 2025
+90k views ⸱ Dec 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 13m 41s
“Vibes won’t cut it — Chris Kelly, Augment Code”
Chris Kelly • AI Engineer 2025
+86k views ⸱ Aug 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 34s
“From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering – Kitze, Sizzy”
Kitze • AI Engineer 2025
+86k views ⸱ Dec 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 28s
“Composition Is All You Need | Fernando Rojo at React Universe Conf 2025”
Fernando Rojo • React Universe Conf 2025
+85k views ⸱ Sep 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 22m 17s
“Make your LLM app a Domain Expert: How to Build an Expert System — Christopher Lovejoy, Anterior”
Christopher Lovejoy • AI Engineer 2025
+83k views ⸱ Jul 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 18s
“How Windsurf writes 90% of your code with an Agentic IDE - Kevin Hou, Windsurf”
Kevin Hou • AI Engineer 2025
+81k views ⸱ Mar 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 50s
“Modern React Patterns: Concurrent Rendering, Actions & What’s Next | Aurora Scharff at RUC 2025”
Aurora Scharff • React Universe Conf 2025
+78k views ⸱ Sep 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 26m 32s
“How Claude Code Works - Jared Zoneraich, PromptLayer”
Jared Zoneraich • AI Engineer 2025
+78k views ⸱ Dec 26, 2025 ⸱ 01h 05m 43s
“Where is the Java language going?”
Brian Goetz • JavaOne 2025
+68k views ⸱ Apr 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 31s
“MCP is all you need — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic”
Samuel Colvin • AI Engineer 2025
+63k views ⸱ Jul 18, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 24s
“Moving Beyond Containers - Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips @Wasm I/O 2025”
Daniel Phillips • Wasm I/O 2025
+63k views ⸱ Apr 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 15s
“tldraw.computer - Steve Ruiz, tldraw”
Steve Ruiz • AI Engineer 2025
+62k views ⸱ Jul 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 45s
“Know Your Java?”
Venkat Subramaniam • JavaOne 2025
+60k views ⸱ May 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 30s
“#define AI Engineer - Greg Brockman, OpenAI (ft. Jensen Huang)”
Greg Brockman • AI Engineer 2025
+60k views ⸱ Aug 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 05s
“AI Engineering at Jane Street - John Crepezzi”
John Crepezzi • AI Engineer 2025
+58k views ⸱ Mar 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 57s
“How to Train Your Agent: Building Reliable Agents with RL — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe”
Kyle Corbitt • AI Engineer 2025
+58k views ⸱ Jul 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 48s
“You Don’t Know Git - Edward Thomson - NDC London 2025”
Edward Thomson • NDC London 2025
+58k views ⸱ Mar 31, 2025 ⸱ 01h 01m 56s
“Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans - Scott Hanselman - NDC London 2025”
Scott Hanselman • NDC London 2025
+57k views ⸱ Mar 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 59m 00s
“The Joy of C++26 Contracts - Myths, Misconceptions & Defensive Programming - Herb Sutter”
Herb Sutter • CppCon 2025
+54k views ⸱ Nov 21, 2025 ⸱ 01h 02m 50s
“3 ingredients for building reliable enterprise agents - Harrison Chase, LangChain/LangGraph”
Harrison Chase • AI Engineer 2025
+52k views ⸱ Jul 23, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 55s
“Thinking Like an Architect - Gregor Hohpe - NDC London 2025”
Gregor Hohpe • NDC London 2025
+52k views ⸱ Mar 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 02m 15s
“Say Goodbye to Microservices, Say Hello to Self-Contained Systems by Simon Martinelli @ Spring I/O”
Simon Martinelli • Spring I/O 2025
+50k views ⸱ May 30, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 59s
“2026: The Year The IDE Died — Steve Yegge & Gene Kim, Authors, Vibe Coding”
Steve Yegge, Gene Kim • AI Engineer 2025
+50k views ⸱ Dec 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 59s
“The New Java Best Practices by Stephen Colebourne”
Stephen Colebourne • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+47k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 36s
“10 Things I Do On Every .NET App - Scott Sauber - NDC Oslo 2025”
Scott Sauber • NDC Oslo 2025
+45k views ⸱ Sep 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 59m 17s
“Microsoft is Getting Rusty: A Review of Successes and Challenges - Mark Russinovich”
Mark Russinovich • Rust Nation UK 2025
+45k views ⸱ Feb 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 34m 41s
“AI Engineers: The Next Generation — Stefania Druga, Google Gemini”
Stefania Druga • AI Engineer 2025
+43k views ⸱ Apr 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 21m 47s
“Jeremy Soller: “10 Years of Redox OS and Rust” | RustConf 2025”
Jeremy Soller • RustConf 2025
+42k views ⸱ Oct 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 29m 15s
“Java for AI”
Paul Sandoz • JavaOne 2025
+40k views ⸱ May 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 48s
“Creating Agents that Co-Create — Karina Nguyen, OpenAI”
Karina Nguyen • AI Engineer 2025
+40k views ⸱ Apr 30, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 22s
“The Agent Development Life Cycle — Zack Reneau-Wedeen, Sierra”
Zack Reneau-Wedeen • AI Engineer 2025
+39k views ⸱ Apr 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 40s
“Structuring a modern AI team — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs”
Denys Linkov • AI Engineer 2025
+39k views ⸱ Jul 24, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 40s
“POC to PROD: Hard Lessons from 200+ Enterprise GenAI Deployments - Randall Hunt, Caylent”
Randall Hunt • AI Engineer 2025
+39k views ⸱ Jul 23, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 16s
“Scaling Agents for Gen AI Products - Anju Kambadur, Bloomberg Head of AI Engineering”
Anju Kambadur • AI Engineer 2025
+39k views ⸱ Apr 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 38s
“Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong - Ian Cooper - NDC London 2025”
Ian Cooper • NDC London 2025
+38k views ⸱ Feb 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 55m 10s
“Real World Lean Java Practices, Patterns, Hacks, and Workarounds”
Adam Bien • JavaOne 2025
+37k views ⸱ May 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 10s
“Three Cool Things in C++26: Safety, Reflection & std::execution - Herb Sutter - C++ on Sea 2025”
Herb Sutter • C++ on Sea 2025
+37k views ⸱ Aug 14, 2025 ⸱ 01h 11m 10s
“Practical GraphRAG: Making LLMs smarter with Knowledge Graphs — Michael, Jesus, and Stephen, Neo4j”
Michael Hunger, Jesús Barrasa, Stephen Chin • AI Engineer 2025
+36k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 46s
“Rethinking how we Scaffold AI Agents - Rahul Sengottuvelu, Ramp”
Rahul Sengottuvelu • AI Engineer 2025
+36k views ⸱ Mar 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 32s
“The AI-Native Software Engineer | Addy Osmani”
Addy Osmani • JSNation US 2025
+35k views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 42s
“A Java Developer’s Guide to Navigating the Frontend Landscape”
Dan Vega • JavaOne 2025
+35k views ⸱ May 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 54s
“Mastering LLM Inference Optimization From Theory to Cost Effective Deployment: Mark Moyou”
Mark Moyou • AI Engineer 2025
+35k views ⸱ Jan 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 33m 39s
“Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel”
Linus Torvalds, Dirk Hohndel • Open Source Summit Korea 2025
+35k views ⸱ Nov 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 29m 57s
“Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow”
Cory Doctorow • PyCon US 2025
+35k views ⸱ May 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 49s
“Proactive Agents – Kath Korevec, Google Labs”
Kath Korevec • AI Engineer 2025
+34k views ⸱ Dec 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 51s
“Personal, Local, Private AI Agents: Soumith Chintala”
Soumith Chintala • AI Engineer 2025
+34k views ⸱ Apr 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 32s
“When Vectors Break Down: Graph-Based RAG for Dense Enterprise Knowledge - Sam Julien, Writer”
Sam Julien • AI Engineer 2025
+34k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 47s
“Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic”
Katelyn Lesse • AI Engineer 2025
+32k views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 13m 25s
“Agentic GraphRAG: AI’s Logical Edge — Stephen Chin, Neo4j”
Stephen Chin • AI Engineer 2025
+32k views ⸱ Jul 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 27s
“TanStack is Your New Favorite Framework”
Jack Herrington • CascadiaJS 2025
+32k views ⸱ Oct 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 50s
“Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng? (Stanford 120k Devs Study) – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford”
Yegor Denisov-Blanch • AI Engineer 2025
+31k views ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 40s
“Ensure AI Agents Work: Evaluation Frameworks for Scaling Success — Aparna Dhinkaran, CEO Arize”
Aparna Dhinakaran • AI Engineer 2025
+31k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 28s
“Function Calling is All You Need — Full Workshop, with Ilan Bigio of OpenAI”
Ilan Bigio • AI Engineer 2025
+31k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2025 ⸱ 01h 42m 54s
“Growing the Java Language #JVMLS”
Brian Goetz • JVMLS 2025
+31k views ⸱ Aug 21, 2025 ⸱ 01h 20m 21s
“Concept-based Generic Programming - Bjarne Stroustrup - CppCon 2025”
Bjarne Stroustrup • CppCon 2025
+31k views ⸱ Nov 14, 2025 ⸱ 01h 23m 29s
“AI/ML Introduction for Java Developers”
Frank Greco • JavaOne 2025
+30k views ⸱ Jun 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 31s
“Trust, but Verify: Knowledge Agents for Finance Workflows - Mike Conover”
Mike Conover • AI Engineer 2025
+30k views ⸱ Apr 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 21m 10s
“You’re Doing Exceptions Wrong - Matt Burke - NDC London 2025”
Matt Burke • NDC London 2025
+30k views ⸱ Mar 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 57m 00s
“Thinking Deeper in Gemini — Jack Rae, Google DeepMind”
Jack Rae • AI Engineer 2025
+30k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 13s
“Evan You | Vite Beyond a Build Tool | ViteConf 2025”
Evan You • ViteConf 2025
+28k views ⸱ Oct 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 36m 54s
“Building Data Visualisations in Python in Minutes • Kris Jenkins • GOTO 2025”
Kris Jenkins • GOTO 2025
+28k views ⸱ Nov 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 34s
“Keynote: Machines, Learning, and Machine Learning - Dylan Beattie - NDC Porto 2025”
Dylan Beattie • NDC Porto 2025
+28k views ⸱ Oct 22, 2025 ⸱ 01h 09m 30s
“Cause of Death: Spring Data JPA by Thorben Janssen @ Spring I/O 2025”
Thorben Janssen • Spring I/O 2025
+28k views ⸱ Jun 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 53s
“Intro to GraphRAG — Zach Blumenfeld”
Zach Blumenfeld • AI Engineer 2025
+27k views ⸱ Jun 30, 2025 ⸱ 01h 18m 35s
“The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages - Kevlin Henney - NDC TechTown 2025”
Kevlin Henney • NDC TechTown 2025
+27k views ⸱ Dec 31, 2025 ⸱ 01h 09m 52s
“The Worst Programming Language Ever - Rendle”
Rendle • KanDDDinsky 2025
+27k views ⸱ Apr 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 44m 17s
“Spring I/O 2025 Keynote”
Juergen Hoeller, Rossen Stoyanchev, Ana Maria Mihalceanu, Moritz Halbritter, Mark Paluch, Josh Long, Mark Pollack • Spring I/O 2025
+27k views ⸱ May 25, 2025 ⸱ 01h 14m 25s
“Compose Multiplatform for iOS: Ready for Production Use | Sebastian Aigner”
Sebastian Aigner • KotlinConf 2025
+26k views ⸱ Jun 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 23s
“AWS re:Invent 2025 - The future of Kubernetes on AWS (CNS205)”
Amazon EKS team • AWS re:Invent 2025
+26k views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 33s
“Building voice agents with OpenAI — Dominik Kundel, OpenAI”
Dominik Kundel • AI Engineer 2025
+26k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2025 ⸱ 01h 25m 35s
“Java 24 - Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime”
Nicolai Parlog • Jfokus 2025
+26k views ⸱ Mar 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 33s
“Building an Agentic Platform — Ben Kus, CTO Box”
Ben Kus • AI Engineer 2025
+25k views ⸱ Aug 24, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 06s
“Keynote: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - Matt Godbolt - ACCU 2025”
Matt Godbolt • ACCU 2025
+25k views ⸱ Aug 29, 2025 ⸱ 01h 20m 45s
“SQL, JSON, and Java”
Josh Spiegel • JavaOne 2025
+25k views ⸱ Apr 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 16s

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💥 Issue 96: Spec-Driven Development 101, Future of Programming Languages, Interview with Boris Cherny, Modular Monoliths, Vector Search

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:33:29 GMT

Happy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #96!

This issue includes over 120 new conference talks published in the past week together with 21 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

Get ready and let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Backlog.md: The simplest project management tool for the AI Era by Alex Gavrilescu” from Voxxed Days Ticino 2026
Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Feb 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 47s
tldw: AI coding agents like Claude, Codex, or Cursor make it easy to generate a lot of code fast but they also make work feel random and hard to review. This talk argues the missing piece is a simple task structure: keep the backlog as a plain md file, break work into small specs, and run a loop where the agent implements one scoped task at a time. The result is more repeatable output and clearer code diffs.
“Modular Monoliths: The Architecture That Scales w Your Domain - Omphile Matheolane - DDD Europe 2025” from DDD Europe 2025
Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Mar 02, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 33s
tldw: Microservices are often treated as the default path to scale, but this talk argues many teams would ship faster with a modular monolith first. The idea is a single deployable app that is still split into real domain modules with clear boundaries using DDD tools like bounded contexts, context maps, and domain events. You get fewer distributed system problems, simpler deployments, and code that matches the business, while keeping the option to break out services later only when the boundaries and scaling needs are proven.
“The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages by Kevlin Henney” from Voxxed Days Ticino 2026
Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Feb 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 56s
tldw: Programming languages change way slower than the rest of software, and a lot of what gets marketed as new is just old ideas finally landing in mainstream. It looks back at how language ideas cycle, why adoption lags for decades, and what might nudge the next shifts, including open source culture and LLM-assisted coding.
“Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny” from The Pragmatic Engineer
Podcast ⸱ Mar 04, 2026 ⸱ 01h 37m 59s
tldl: Claude Code started as a side project and turned into a core internal coding tool. The talk gets specific about how it pulls the right context from huge codebases, how permissions and sandboxing keep it from doing anything sketchy, and what day to day usage looks like when the model writes a lot of the code. The bigger point is that engineers are still needed but the job shifts toward scoping work, steering the system, reviewing changes, and influencing product and design.
“Get The Most Out of Virtual Threads in Java 25: A Deep Dive by Christian Wörz” from Voxxed Days Ticino 2026
Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Feb 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 54s
tldw: Java 25 virtual threads are now good enough for real apps without the weird edge cases that showed up in earlier releases, like pinning. This talk builds a small web app from scratch using virtual threads, StructuredTaskScope, and ScopedValue, showing how to run request work in parallel, cancel cleanly, and handle errors as a group.
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“Unmasking social debt: Silent threat to your team’s success • Kim van Wilgen • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Mar 02, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 39s
tldw: Teams track technical debt but often ignore social debt: the trust gaps, unspoken pressure, and broken communication that quietly slow everything down. This talk argues that social debt feeds technical debt by making it harder to discuss code quality, challenge decisions, and collaborate on fixes. It suggests watching for warning signs like avoidance, low psychological safety, and information hoarding, then paying it down with clearer expectations, regular checkins, and habits that make feedback and disagreement safe.
“Vector Search Made Simple: Getting Started with OpenSearch for AI Applications - Dotan Horovits” from NDC London 2026
Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Feb 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 25s
tldw: OpenSearch started as a search engine but now works as a vector database, too. The talk gives a quick intro to lexical search vs vector similarity search, then shows how OpenSearch can do both in one place using embeddings and KNN. It goes through common uses like semantic search, image search, and recommendations, and presents OpenSearch as a backend for RAG-style applications.
“Threads vs Coroutines — Why C++ Has Two Concurrency Models - Conor Spilsbury - CppCon 2025” from CppCon 2025
Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Mar 03, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 58s
tldw: C++ has both threads and coroutines because they solve different problems, not because one replaces the other. Threads are OS scheduled and run in parallel, but thread creation, context switches, locks, and cache effects add real cost and complexity. Coroutines are language level tasks that suspend and resume cooperatively, so you can run lots of concurrent work on a small number of threads, especially for I/O bound code, but you still need threads underneath for actual parallel CPU work. The talk builds a mental model of what each maps to in the OS and hardware, then applies it to common cases like high fan out I/O, pipelines and CPU heavy work to help you pick the right tool.

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💥 Issue 95: AI - data vs hype, José Valim on coding with AI, Scaling to 100+ as a Director, What is Functional Programming, Your career isn’t stuck

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:24:36 GMT

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #95!

This issue includes over 127 new conference talks published in the past week together with 62 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

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🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Data vs Hype: How Orgs Actually Win with AI - The Pragmatic Summit” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Feb 24, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 49s
tldw: This keynote presents fresh data (Dec 25/Jan 26) on how AI is used by developers that’s never been published before. It argues most companies are rushing to use AI 2026, but that high usage numbers often hide low real change in throughput and quality. It warns benchmarks and averages can mislead and points to early signals from tools like Codex and a few case studies where teams saw measurable gains only after changing how they work, not just what AI tool use. The takeaway is that AI does not fix broken engineering on its own and can lead to even more incidents (even 2x!). The teams that win focus on a small set of concrete practices and track outcomes with better data. I highly recommend this talk.
“Your career isn’t stuck – you’re playing by the wrong rules | Limor Bergman Gross | LeadDev Berlin” from LeadDev Berlin 2025
Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Feb 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 45s
tldw: Many engineers feel stuck because they follow the usual career script: work hard, keep your head down, wait to be noticed. This talk says promotions often go to people who build visibility and trust, not just output. The framework is simple: pick a problem that matters to your organization, make your work easy to see, share progress in public places like docs and planning meetings and build allies across teams. It also suggests asking for scope, ownership and decision rights.
“Coding Agents & Language Evolution: Navigating Uncharted Waters • José Valim • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Feb 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 56s
tldw: Coding agents are getting good at writing code but they still fail in predictable ways because we do not give them clear instructions, safe tools, or enough runtime context. The talk frames agent work as three parts: instructions, tools and runtime, then shows how to make each less fragile. For instructions, it argues for a repo level contract like AGENTS.md that tells an agent how to run tests, format code, follow project conventions and what it must not touch. For tools, it pushes simple, explicit capabilities over magic, so agents can call well scoped commands and APIs instead of free form shell spelunking. For runtime, it makes the case that languages and frameworks should expose better introspection and integrated runtimes so agents can ask the system what is running, what failed, and how to reproduce it, not just guess from logs. The takeaway is that better agent results come from better interfaces and feedback loops in our tooling, not from bigger prompts.
“Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations” from InfoQ Dev Summit 2025
Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Feb 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 09s
tldw: This talk presents learnings from scaling orgs from ~30 to 100+ engineers across big tech and fintech. Past ~50, you need a real leadership team and steady operating cadence to keep execution from turning into chaos. Reorgs should be expected and rehearsed, not treated like failures. To avoid slow consensus, use lightweight decision tools like DACI and write down decisions in management decision records.
“GeeCON 2025: Adam Warski - What is Functional Programming?” from GeeCON 2025
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Feb 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 58s
tldw: Functional programming is everywhere in modern languages but people still can’t agree on what it even means. This talk tries to pin down a workable definition by looking at which language features actually enable functional style and which ones get in the way. It also asks what it takes to call a language “functional” at all, then uses Java as a test case to see how far you can go with FP ideas in a mostly non functional language.

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💥 Issue 94: How to hack the job market, AI won’t fix developer productivity, Message delivery in distributed systems, Clean Architecture

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:49:30 GMT

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #94!

Last week, I published a compilation of the most-watched Java talks of 2025 which went viral. Make sure to check it out:

This issue includes over 65 new conference talks published in the past week together with 85 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

Get ready and let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Learning not leaning: How developers can Accelerate their Learning with AI - Emma Burstow” from NDC London 2026
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 44s
tldw: Coding assistants feel like the next Intellisense, but they change how people learn, not just how they type. The talk argues the goal is not more code output, it is becoming a better engineer by using AI as a learning tool. A team tried structured Copilot sprints where everyone had to use it, but prompts had to focus on why and what if, tradeoffs, and alternative designs instead of code dumps. Treating the assistant like a tutor, asking for explanations, tests, edge cases, and reasoning, helped developers practice and make mistakes safely while still shipping fast.
“Ensuring reliability: message delivery in distributed system • Michał Ostruszka • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Feb 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 14s
tldw: Distributed systems drop, duplicate, and reorder messages all the time, so “message delivered” is rarely a simple yes or no. This talk explains common delivery guarantees like at most once, at least once, and exactly once, what they actually mean in production, and when you should not bother chasing stronger guarantees. It walks through techniques like idempotent handlers, deduplication keys, retries with backoff, acknowledgments, outbox and inbox patterns, and how brokers and databases change the tradeoffs. The main takeaway: pick the weakest guarantee that meets the business need, then design the system so failures turn into safe retries instead of bad state.
“AI won’t fix developer productivity (unless you fix context first) | Peter Werry | StaffPlus NY 2025” from StaffPlus New York 2025
Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Feb 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 59s
tldw: AI coding tools are not boosting productivity for most teams because the real bottleneck is context, not code writing. Developers spend tons of time hunting through GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Confluence to figure out why something exists and what tradeoffs were made. The talk argues for “context engineering”: building a layer that links decisions, discussions, and system history so both humans and tools like Claude or Cursor can query it directly. Done well, this cuts guessing, speeds up changes, and makes AI outputs more reliable for real production codebases.
“The silent infrastructure crisis | Chris Buckley | StaffPlus New York 2025” from StaffPlus New York 2025
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 13m 26s
tldw: AI crawlers are turning into a new kind of production traffic. Data from Fastly’s sample of 6.5T monthly requests shows single “fetcher” bots spiking as high as 39,000 requests per minute, creating load patterns that don’t look like humans and don’t behave like classic scrapers. The talk argues this is now an infra and security problem: more cache misses, more origin hits, more expensive egress, noisier telemetry, and tougher rate limiting decisions since some bot traffic is “legit” and some is abuse. This talk includes concrete suggestions for how to detect, classify, throttle, and price this traffic so it doesn’t quietly eat your performance budget.
“Whats New with Amazon OpenSearch Service” from AWS Podcast
Podcast ⸱ Feb 17, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 29s
tldl: Amazon OpenSearch Service got a batch of updates aimed at people running search and analytics in production. The talk walks through new observability features, better vector search for embedding based queries, and performance work meant to make indexing and querying faster and cheaper at scale. It presents the changes around day to day ops: seeing what your cluster is doing, improving relevance for semantic search, and getting more throughput from the same hardware.
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“Clean Architecture with Python • Sam Keen & Max Kirchoff”
Podcast ⸱ Feb 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 56s
tldl: This interview talks through applying Clean Architecture ideas in Python. It focuses on keeping business logic separate from frameworks and I/O code so you can test core behavior fast and swap out databases, web layers, and external services without rewriting everything. The big takeaway is to treat Flask, Django, ORMs, and cloud SDKs as adapters at the edges while your domain and use case code stays plain and boring.
“Mikhail Korolev: How to Hack the Job Market & Get Into VIP Rooms” from ConTejas Code
Podcast ⸱ Feb 16, 2026 ⸱ 01h 30m 58s
tldl: A software engineer shares how he went from getting dropped by Toptal to landing an engineering role by showing up where hiring happens: conference side events, invite only dinners, and small groups. Hints: use conference directories to find events, follow the Pac Man rule for mingling so you do not trap people in conversations, and treat CFPs like a game with short abstracts and reusable talk outlines. He also argues DevRel is a bad bet at companies with unfinished products and admits to using ChatGPT to speed through a LeetCode screen, saying it’s like working the system that already rewards game playing.

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💥 Issue 93: Beyond the AI Hype, Gas Town with Steve Yegge, JDK24 Stream Gatherers, Advanced TypeScript

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:31:04 GMT

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Happy Friday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #93!

Earlier this week, I published a compilation of the most-watched Java talks of 2025 which went viral. Make sure to check it out:

This issue includes over 214 new conference talks published in the past week together with 86 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

Get ready and let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Beyond the AI Hype: What’s Real, What’s Next - Richard Campbell - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Feb 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 57s
tldw: AI is in a hype cycle, but some of the stuff is already paying off in real products. So what’s real, what’s exaggerated and what’s next?
“Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development with Steve Yegge” from Software Engineering Daily
Podcast ⸱ Feb 12, 2026 ⸱ 01h 09m 52s
tldl: AI coding has moved past copilot-style autocomplete into tools that can refactor entire repositories, run multi step tasks and work across systems. Steve argues the hard part is no longer typing code but steering the work: keeping context straight, breaking goals into tasks, checking results and making sure humans and many agents stay aligned.
“Supercharged Testing: AI-Powered Workflows with Playwright + MCP - Debbie O’Brien” from NDC London 2026
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 26s
tldw: This talk shows how to pair Playwright with the Playwright MCP server so an LLM can help write and maintain end to end tests. It runs through Playwright basics that matter in real suites like better locators, patterns that make tests less brittle, parallel runs and built in debugging. Then it demos AI assisted workflows like generating tests from a user flow, spotting missing coverage, repairing flaky failures and driving a live app with plain English commands.
“How I Tamed Claude - Emmz Rendle - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Feb 09, 2026 ⸱ 01h 06m 11s
tldw: A CTO shares a workflow for using Claude Code as a coding agent without losing control of the codebase. The core idea is to treat the model like a junior developer: give it a real requirements doc, break work into small steps, review every change and keep a running project log so you and the agent can pick up later without relying on a huge context window. The talk also argues that junior devs still matter, but the job shifts toward clear specs, feedback loops and humans staying accountable for what is being shipped.
“GeeCON 2025: Marcin Chrost - Stream Gatherers - let’s get to know each other better!” from GeeCON 2025
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Feb 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 15s
tldw: JDK 24 adds Stream Gatherers as a permanent Java feature, giving the Stream API a long missing middle step between map and collect. The talk shows how built in gatherers can make stream code clearer for common tasks and then walks through writing custom gatherers.
“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Legacy Code - William Brander - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 15s
tldw: Legacy code is treated like an old temple: dangerous to poke at but packed with business rules you will not get back from a rewrite. The talk walks through ways to explore a mystery codebase safely, like using source control history to learn why things got weird, adding tests around the edges before changing internals and refactoring in small steps so you can roll back fast. It also calls out warning signs like cursed files with constant churn and hidden dependencies and suggests using them as maps for where to add coverage and boundaries first. The main point: your job is not to “clean it up” in one heroic pass, it is to learn how it works and modernize it without breaking your customers’ trust.
“Playing the long game - Sheena O’Connell - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 22s
tldw: LLM tools are everywhere now but most people either buy the marketing or get stuck arguing about hype. This talk maps out the common characters showing up in teams, from the “AI ate my job” dev to the “ban it all” gatekeeper and argues the useful path is somewhere in the middle. It says LLMs can help with fast iteration and prototypes but results get messy on big brownfield systems, so teams need the same old basics: tests, reviews, tight feedback loops, clear ownership and guardrails for where these tools are allowed to touch production code. The main concern is the long game: if juniors mostly prompt and paste, they do not build judgment. The talk advocates for keeping the real junior work around and building training paths now so they still have senior engineers a few years from now.
“The Fun Side of Advanced TypeScript: An Interactive Coding Session - Dante De Ruwe - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 47s
tldw: This one is a live demo of what TypeScript type system can do. It plays with infer, recursive and conditional types, type level math and even a full Wordle clone done entirely in types. The point is not that you should write production code like this, but that these tricks teach you what the compiler can do and give you a few new tools that can occasionally save the day.
“How to Run Any LLM On-Device With React Native by Szymon Rybczak | React Advanced London 2025” from React Advanced London 2025
Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Feb 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 09s
tldw: Running LLMs on device changes a lot: lower latency, better privacy and offline support without round trips to a server. This talk shows how to do it in React Native using react-native-ai, a wrapper that hides the platform specific details behind a provider setup. It walks through hooking up engines like MLC LLM and Apple foundation models, then covers what recently got better: debugging tools, tool calling and agent style pipelines. The focus is on what works today and the tradeoffs you take on when the model lives inside the app.
“Why AI Projects Fail - Explore Top Reasons” from DevOps Podcasts
Podcast ⸱ Feb 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 04m 18s
tldl: A lot of AI projects fail in one of three ways: they never ship, they ship then get abandoned, or they ship but nobody trusts or uses them. The talk argues the model is rarely the real problem. Most failures come from the surrounding system like messy data pipelines, unclear success metrics, weak monitoring and feedback loops, bad integration into existing workflows and missing ownership for upkeep after launch.

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🏆 100 Most Watched Java Conference Talks Of 2025

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Happy Tuesday 👋 and welcome to another special edition of Tech Talks Weekly!

Following tradition, I’ve prepared a list of the 100 most watched Java talks presented in 2025 across the conferences that I’m tracking, covering nearly every software development conference worldwide.

First of all, huge thanks to all the speakers and organizers, thanks to whom we have so much high-quality content to watch 🙏

2025 has been a fantastic year for Java culminating long-running efforts. We’ve had the JDK24 release where virtual threads became fully usable with no pinning followed by JDK25 (LTS). This means 2026 will be the year when we jump into the vibe of replacing CompletableFuture with T across large legacy codebases with AI. Happy “topsy-turvying”!

Jokes aside, I think it’s an enormous improvement in the Java ecosystem and on that note, I’d also like to give a shoutout to who put together an excellent article about Everything you might have missed in Java in 2025. If you find it too long, at least scroll it for good memes!

Last but not least, if you’re curious how this list was built, this year I included the Behind the scenes section below.

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🏆 100 Most Watched Java Talks Of 2025

“How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition”
Paul Bakker • JavaOne 2025
+280k views ⸱ Apr 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 43s
“Where is the Java language going?”
Brian Goetz • JavaOne 2025
+67k views ⸱ Apr 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 31s
“Know Your Java?”
Venkat Subramaniam • JavaOne 2025
+58k views ⸱ May 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 30s
“Say Goodbye to Microservices, Say Hello to Self-Contained Systems by Simon Martinelli @ Spring I/O”
Simon Martinelli • Spring I/O
+49k views ⸱ May 30, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 58s
“The New Java Best Practices by Stephen Colebourne”
Stephen Colebourne • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+43k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 36s
“Java for AI”
Paul Sandoz • JavaOne 2025
+39k views ⸱ May 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 48s
“Real World Lean Java Practices, Patterns, Hacks, and Workarounds”
Adam Bien • JavaOne 2025
+37k views ⸱ May 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 10s
“A Java Developer’s Guide to Navigating the Frontend Landscape”
Dan Vega • JavaOne 2025
+35k views ⸱ May 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 54s
“Growing the Java Language #JVMLS”
Brian Goetz • JVM Language Summit 2025
+30k views ⸱ Aug 21, 2025 ⸱ 01h 20m 21s
“AI/ML Introduction for Java Developers”
Frank Greco • JavaOne 2025
+30k views ⸱ Jun 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 31s
“Java 24 - Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime”
Nicolai Parlog • Jfokus 2025
+26k views ⸱ Mar 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 33s
“SQL, JSON, and Java”
Josh Spiegel • JavaOne 2025
+25k views ⸱ Apr 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 16s
“Java 24, Faster Than Ever”
Per Minborg • JavaOne 2025
+22k views ⸱ May 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 50s
“Apache Maven Survival Guide “Bring It On! -Mode””
Richard Fichtner • JavaOne 2025
+21k views ⸱ May 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 28s
“A New Model for Java Object Initialization”
Dan Smith • JavaOne 2025
+20k views ⸱ Jul 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 23s
“Pattern Matching in Java: Better Code, Better APIs”
Dan Smith • JavaOne 2025
+20k views ⸱ May 24, 2025 ⸱ 00h 37m 32s
“Valhalla? Python? Withers? Lombok? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne’25”
Ron Pressler, Paul Sandoz, Brian Goetz, Mark Reinhold, Dan Heidinga, Viktor Klang, Gary Frost, Alex Buckley, John Rose • JavaOne 2025
+19k views ⸱ Dec 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 02s
“Mastering JVM Memory Troubleshooting - From OutOfMemoryErrors to Leaks”
Poonam Parhar • JavaOne 2025
+19k views ⸱ May 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 22s
“JavaFX 24 and Beyond”
Kevin Rushforth • JavaOne 2025
+18k views ⸱ May 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 06s
“From JDK 21 to JDK 25 - Java Performance Update 2025”
Per Minborg • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+17k views ⸱ Oct 18, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 21s
“Garbage Collection in Java: The Performance Benefits of Upgrading”
Stefan Johansson • JavaOne 2025
+17k views ⸱ May 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 35s
“Stream Gatherers - Deep Dive with the Expert”
Viktor Klang • JavaOne 2025
+17k views ⸱ Apr 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 06s
“Java for AI”
Paul Sandoz • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+16k views ⸱ Oct 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 03s
“Sequenced Collections - Deep Dive with the Expert”
Stuart Marks • JavaOne 2025
+16k views ⸱ Apr 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 19s
“Preparing for the Java 21 Certification (or Learning New Features)”
Jeanne Boyarsky • JavaOne 2025
+16k views ⸱ Apr 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 46s
“Serialization 2 0: A Marshalling Update!”
Viktor Klang • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+15k views ⸱ Nov 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 05s
“Dockerfiles, Jib ..., what’s the best way to run your Java code in Containers? by Matthias Haeussler”
Matthias Haeussler • Voxxed Days Cern 2025
+15k views ⸱ Feb 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 59s
“Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA by Marit van Dijk”
Marit van Dijk • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+15k views ⸱ Oct 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 30m 42s
“Modular RAG Architectures with Java and Spring AI by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2025”
Thomas Vitale • Spring I/O 2025
+15k views ⸱ Aug 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 55s
“Bootiful Spring Boot: the Deep Dive by Josh Long”
Josh Long • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+14k views ⸱ Oct 07, 2025 ⸱ 03h 00m 57s
“Marshalling: Data-Oriented Serialization”
Viktor Klang • JavaOne 2025
+13k views ⸱ Jul 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 04s
“AI 202: Next-Level AI Mastery for Java Developers”
Mark Heckler • JavaOne 2025
+13k views ⸱ Apr 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 53m 46s
“There is a missing tool in your Java data structure toolkit – DataFrames!”
Donald Raab, Vladimir Zakharov • JavaOne 2025
+12k views ⸱ Dec 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 54s
“Spring Boot: Chapter 4 by Brian Clozel, Stephane Nicoll”
Brian Clozel, Stephane Nicoll • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+12k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 51s
“JavaFX in the Web”
Florian Kirmaier • JavaOne 2025
+12k views ⸱ Jul 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 16s
“From Final to Immutable: The not-so-final word on `final` #JVMLS”
Maurizio Cimadamore • JVM Language Summit 2025
+12k views ⸱ Aug 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 51s
“Structured Concurrency in Action”
Nicolai Parlog • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+11k views ⸱ Oct 16, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 34s
“Interconnecting Java and Native Code with the FFM API”
Per Minborg • JavaOne 2025
+11k views ⸱ Jun 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 30s
“Paths to Support Additional Numeric Types on the Java Platform #JVMLS”
Joe Darcy, Brian Goetz • JVM Language Summit 2025
+11k views ⸱ Sep 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 54m 51s
“How Can Machine Learning Assist to Improve JVM Performance”
Yagmur Eren • Jfokus 2025
+11k views ⸱ Mar 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 14m 43s
“Null Safety in Java with JSpecify and NullAway by Sébastien Deleuze @ Spring I/O 2025”
Sébastien Deleuze • Spring I/O 2025
+11k views ⸱ Jun 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 20s
“How to Debug - Lessons Learnt from 10 Years of Spring Boot”
Phil Webb • JavaOne 2025
+10k views ⸱ Jun 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 48s
“Supercharge your JVM Performance with Project Leyden and Spring Boot”
Ana Maria Mihalceanu, Moritz Halbritter • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+10k views ⸱ Nov 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 20s
“Writing GPU-Ready AI Models in Pure Java with Babylon”
Ana Maria Mihalceanu, Lize Raes • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+10k views ⸱ Oct 25, 2025 ⸱ 00h 58m 58s
“Project Leyden’s AOT - Shifting Java Startup into High Gear”
Dan Heidinga • JavaOne 2025
+9k views ⸱ Jun 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 58s
“Java GPGPU Enablement: Are We There Yet?”
Gary Frost • JavaOne 2025
+9k views ⸱ Jul 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 39m 40s
“The Evolution of Enterprise Java with Jakarta EE 11 and Beyond”
Ivar Grimstad • JavaOne 2025
+9k views ⸱ Jun 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 00s
“Concerto for Java & AI - Building Production-Ready LLM Applications”
Thomas Vitale • JavaOne 2025
+9k views ⸱ Apr 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 11s
“Java Turns 30 - Live from JavaOne 2025”
Nicolai Vidstedt, Mikael Vidstedt, Viktor Klang, Vincent Mayers, Donald Raab, Chad Arimura • JavaOne 2025
+9k views ⸱ Mar 21, 2025 ⸱ 01h 57m 38s
“Java Next - Live from JavaOne 2025”
Nicolai, Ana, Ron Pressler, Gavin Bierman, Paul Sandoz, Dr. Deprecator, Georges Saab • JavaOne 2025
+8k views ⸱ Mar 19, 2025 ⸱ 01h 43m 08s
“Devoxx Greece 2025 - Top REST API Design Pitfalls by Victor Rentea”
Victor Rentea • Devoxx Greece 2025
+8k views ⸱ Apr 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 05s
“Garbage Collection in Java: Choosing the Correct Collector”
Stefan Johansson • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+8k views ⸱ Nov 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 36s
“A Sneak Peek at the Stable Values API”
Per Minborg • JavaOne 2025
+8k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 56s
“Java Memory Leaks by Victor Rentea”
Victor Rentea • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+7k views ⸱ Oct 08, 2025 ⸱ 02h 47m 22s
“Tactical Domain Driven Design with Java and Spring by Oliver Drotbohm”
Oliver Drotbohm • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+7k views ⸱ Oct 08, 2025 ⸱ 02h 42m 20s
“Value Classes Heap Flattening - What to expect from JEP 401 #JVMLS”
Frederic Parain • JVM Language Summit 2025
+7k views ⸱ Oct 31, 2025 ⸱ 00h 31m 25s
“Top 10 Event Driven Architecture Pitfalls by Victor Rentea”
Victor Rentea • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+7k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 54s
“Agent Orchestration with LangChain4J”
Lize Raes • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+7k views ⸱ Nov 30, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 00s
“Large Scale Changes with AI – Migrating millions of lines of Java to Kotlin at Uber | Ty Smith”
Ty Smith • KotlinConf 2025
+7k views ⸱ Aug 25, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 45s
“Integrity by Default”
Ron Pressler • JavaOne 2025
+7k views ⸱ Nov 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 33s
“Java Security Evolution - Out with the Old, In with the New”
Sean Mullan • JavaOne 2025
+7k views ⸱ Jul 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 21s
“Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA - Marit van Dijk”
Marit van Dijk • Voxxed Days Zürich 2025
+6k views ⸱ Mar 31, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 48s
“From RAG to Enterprise AI Agents: Building Intelligent Java Apps”
Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Mark Heckler • JavaOne 2025
+6k views ⸱ Apr 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 07s
“What Can a Java Developer Learn from Golang? by Grzegorz Piwowarek”
Grzegorz Piwowarek • Voxxed Days Ticino 2025
+6k views ⸱ Jan 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 44m 51s
“Modern Java Development with Tip & Tail”
Alex Buckley • JavaOne 2025
+6k views ⸱ May 18, 2025 ⸱ 00h 35m 58s
“Creating Cloud Native Capabilities Using the Latest Features from Java and the JVM”
Cameron Purdy • JavaOne 2025
+6k views ⸱ Jun 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 53s
“Domain centric? Why Hexagonal, Onion and Clean architecture are answers to the wrong question by Oli”
Oliver Drotbohm • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+6k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 03s
“Building a Multiplatform SDKMAN in JavaFX”
Jago de Vreede • JavaOne 2025
+5k views ⸱ May 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 54s
“Cracking the Code Review by Paco van Beckhoven”
Paco van Beckhoven • Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
+5k views ⸱ Apr 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 58s
“Auto-Vectorization in HotSpot #JVMLS”
Emanuel Peter • JVM Language Summit 2025
+5k views ⸱ Aug 16, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 30s
“Bootiful Spring Boot in 2025 by Josh Long”
Josh Long • Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
+5k views ⸱ Apr 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 11s
“Pattern Matching, Under the Microscope”
Angelos Bimpoudis • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+5k views ⸱ Oct 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 10s
“Top Security Flaws Hiding in Your Code Right Now – and How to Fix Them”
Jonathan Vila Lopez • JavaOne 2025
+5k views ⸱ Jul 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 24s
“Symbolic Modeling and Transformation of Java Code #JVMLS”
Paul Sandoz • JVM Language Summit 2025
+5k views ⸱ Nov 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 25s
“The Psychology of Code by Victor Rentea”
Victor Rentea • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+5k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 55s
“The Three Amigos in Java by Venkat Subramaniam”
Venkat Subramaniam • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+4k views ⸱ Oct 07, 2025 ⸱ 02h 52m 12s
“Accelerating Maven Builds: From Snail’s Pace 🐌 to Rocket Speed 🚀 by Maarten Mulders”
Maarten Mulders • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+4k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 15s
“Beyond the Vector API - A Quest for a Lower Level API #JVMLS”
Vladimir Ivanov • JVM Language Summit 2025
+4k views ⸱ Nov 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 54m 13s
“OAuth2, OpenID: SSO under the hood - Daniel Garnier-Moiroux”
Daniel Garnier-Moiroux • Voxxed Days Zürich 2025
+4k views ⸱ Mar 31, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 19s
“Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values: Putting it all together by Balkrishna R”
Balkrishna R • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+4k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 44m 54s
“Getting the Most of Your Java Applications - The Value of Java for Enterprises”
Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro • JavaOne 2025
+4k views ⸱ Jun 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 31s
“ZGC - Paving the GC On-Ramp”
Erik Österlund • JavaOne 2025
+4k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 38m 37s
“Weather the Storm: How Value Classes Will Enhance Java Performance by Remi Forax, Clément de Tast”
Remi Forax, Clément de Tast • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+4k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 12s
“Helidon and AI - Building Intelligent Applications”
@Helidon_Project, Daniel Kec • JavaOne 2025
+4k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 11s
“Assembling Project Leyden #JVMLS”
John Rose, Dan Heidinga • JVM Language Summit 2025
+4k views ⸱ Oct 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 57s
“Extending Functional Pipeline with Gatherers by Venkat Subramaniam”
Venkat Subramaniam • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+4k views ⸱ Oct 07, 2025 ⸱ 02h 28m 48s
“Architecture as Code: Quantifying Architectural Trade offs by Neal Ford”
Neal Ford • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+4k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 42s
“Beyond Rust: Rethinking Java Efficiency with Quarkus”
Holly Cummins • QCon London 2025
+4k views ⸱ Mar 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 54s
“Authorization in Spring Security: permissions, roles and beyond by Daniel Garnier Moiroux”
Daniel Garnier Moiroux • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+4k views ⸱ Oct 08, 2025 ⸱ 02h 49m 21s
“Evolving ZGC’s Pointer Color Palette #JVMLS”
Erik Österlund • JVM Language Summit 2025
+3k views ⸱ Oct 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 20s
“AI World: Georges Saab Unveils Java 25 for AI and Cloud”
Georges Saab • Oracle AI World 2025
+3k views ⸱ Oct 29, 2025 ⸱ 00h 09m 05s
“Four Approaches to Reducing Java Startup Time: AppCDS, Native Image, Project Leyden, CRaC @ SpringIO”
Pasha Finkelshteyn, Catherine Edelveis • Spring I/O 2025
+3k views ⸱ Sep 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 12s
“Optimizing Java Applications on Kubernetes: beyond the Basics”
Bruno Borges • QCon Dev Summit 2025
+3k views ⸱ Jan 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 47s
“Three Cups of Java”
Vincent Mayers • JavaOne 2025
+3k views ⸱ Jun 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 39m 57s
“ONNX Based Generative AI LLMs in Java with Project Babylon”
Adam Sotona • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+3k views ⸱ Nov 24, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 45s
“Supercharge your JVM performance with Project Leyden and Spring Boot by Moritz Halbritter, Ana Maria”
Moritz Halbritter, Ana Maria • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+3k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 20s
“Quarkus Unleashed by Roberto Cortez”
Roberto Cortez • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+3k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 40s
“Spring Boot Unwrapped: Exploring the Latest Features by Sergi Almar”
Sergi Almar • Voxxed Days Ticino 2025
+3k views ⸱ Jan 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 30s
“Spec Driven Development Why your prompt chaos won’t scale by Simon Maple”
Simon Maple • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+3k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 20s
“Gen AI Grows Up: Enterprise JVM Agents With Embabel by Rod Johnson”
Rod Johnson • Devoxx Belgium 2025
+3k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 51s

Check out Tech Talks Weekly archive where you can search, filter, and sort all the conference talks by title, conference name, view count, and date. The archive includes the content published since 2020-01-01 and is available to Tech Talks Weekly Plus members.

Behind the scenes

It took some effort to build this compilation. Here’s how I did it:

I fetched all the talks from the conferences I’m tracking on 2026-02-07.
I ran semantic search over the titles and descriptions as well as a full-text search based on various criteria (keywords present in the title/description etc.). This brought some false positives I later excluded manually.
I excluded podcasts and any videos that were not conference talks.
I generated transcripts for the remaining talks.
Using an NLP model I extracted speaker names from the titles, descriptions and transcripts.
Using Llama 3.2, I extracted conference names in the same fashion.
I removed the duplicates. Some speakers presented the same talk at two or more conferences in 2025, so I kept only the talk with the higher number of views.
Done!

Notes on the list

There’s been 1256 Java conference talks published in 2025. The talks you see above account for just 8% of what was published.

There were many brilliant talks presented by fantastic speakers that are in the remaining 92% that didn’t make it to the list.

That’s why, I highly recommend you follow the conferences on a weekly basis by subscribing to Tech Talks Weekly (if you haven’t already!).

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💥 Issue 92: "I ship code I don't read", Exploiting LLMs vulnerabilities, Becoming a Manager, Big Tech Layoff story, ...

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I cross-posted this issue to LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Mastodon and would love your support there as always 🙏

This issue includes over 160 new conference talks published in the past week together with 68 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

Get ready and let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Keynote: Can you trust your (large language) model? - Jodie Burchell - NDC AI 2025” from NDC AI 2025
Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jan 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 26s
tldw: As LLMs and other “black box” models show up in more products, it gets harder to tell when their outputs are actually correct. The talk covers common ways models can mislead you like sounding confident while being wrong, looking good on a benchmark while failing in production, or passing offline tests but breaking after deployment because the data changed. The main message is to treat model results like any other system output: define what “correct” means for your use case, test with real data and real tasks, track errors over time, and set up checks so you notice when things drift or the model starts acting up.
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“10 tips to level up your ai-assisted coding - Aleksander Stensby - NDC Manchester 2025” from NDC Manchester 2025
Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jan 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 02m 51s
tldw: AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude Code can make you faster but only if you set them up right. This talk gives 10 concrete tips on prompts, context, debugging, testing, and MCP so you (or rather your assistant) can get more productive.
“186: Becoming a Manager” from Programming Throwdown
Podcast ⸱ Feb 03, 2026 ⸱ 01h 27m 30s
tldl: This episode is about what the job actually is when you stop being an IC and start managing. The main point is that managers are judged on team results and keeping good people around, which means hiring well, setting clear goals and doing the unglamorous work like reviews, comp, coaching, and sometimes downsizing. It also covers why you might want the switch (mentorship, relationships, bigger org impact) and why you might not (less coding, less direct technical control, more open ended problems) as well as how to move back to engineering, if needed.
“Introduction to AI Security - Jim Manico - NDC AI 2025” from NDC AI 2025
Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jan 28, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 41s
tldw: AI features add new security bugs like prompt injection, data leakage, and adversarial inputs. This talk explains how models work and what can we do about it.
“Time is an Illusion - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman” from Book Overflow
Podcast ⸱ Feb 02, 2026 ⸱ 01h 22m 00s
tldl: This episode talks through why time is hard to reason about across machines, how clock drift and network delays mess with ordering and correctness, and why you often end up trading off consistency, availability, and latency. It also touches Byzantine failures, what consensus is really buying you, and why batch processing and Unix style pipelines still matter when you are building modern data systems.
“Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Year Career” from The Peterman Pod
Podcast ⸱ Jan 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 28s
tldl: A long time big tech engineer talks through getting laid off after a 25 year career and what changed in the job over time. He compares earlier consulting work with big tech, why consultants often get blamed for messy code, and how compensation works when a big chunk is equity that can vanish anytime. He also argues layoffs are not a one off event, shares how age affected his willingness to take risks and move around.
“The creator of Clawd: “I ship code I don’t read” from
Podcast ⸱ Jan 28, 2026 ⸱ 01h 54m 05s
tldl: A solo developer behind the ~~Clawdbot~~ ~~Moltbot~~ OpenClaw project explains how he’s shipping at a pace that looks like a small company, mostly by leaning hard on Claude and Codex.

📆 New talks

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📆 New podcasts

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🗄️ New talks & podcasts by category

All the items from 📆 New talks and 📆 New podcasts organized by category.

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📈 Most-watched talks

Find the most watched talks from the past 7d, 30d, 90d, 6m, and 12m:

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💥 Issue 91: 8,000 subscribers 🎉, S3 as a DB?!, Startup Software Architecture, Estimation is a waste of time, MCPs in Java, Spec-driven development, ...

Tech Talks Weekly — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:02:28 GMT

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That said, get ready and let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Building a Serverless Database on S3: Lessons from Man Group” from QCon London 2025
Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jan 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 26s
tldw: A hedge fund ditched a huge MongoDB cluster and built a time series database straight on S3 with a thick client pushing 40GB/s. This talk explains the tradeoffs around atomicity, versioning, metadata, etc.
“Estimation is a waste of time | Maria Chec” from LeadDev New York 2025
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jan 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 37s
tldw: Story points and “perfect” estimates mostly turn into fake deadlines. This talk shows how a team switched to forecasting with real cycle time data to give ranges instead.
“Building and Securing MCP Servers in Java” from jChampions 2026
Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 59m 40s
tldw: A live coding session showing how to build and secure MCP servers in Java.
“Spec-driven Development: How AI Changed Everything (And Nothing)” from jChampions 2026
Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 27, 2026 ⸱ 01h 04m 39s
tldw: AI makes coding faster, but code still becomes the source of truth. This talk argues for spec first development where you write requirements once and let AI generate the diagrams, code, and tests.
“From Scripts to Buy-In: How Small Clojure Wins Create Big Opportunities - Choomnuan” from Clojure/Conj 2025
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jan 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 31s
tldw: If you want to sneak Clojure into your team, this talk shows how to win a buy-in by shipping tiny tools that fix real problems.
“Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman” from QCon London 2025
Podcast ⸱ Jan 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 00s
tldl: This podcast is about making decisions with imperfect/unclear information and why you almost never throw away working code as the system grows. I recommend listening this one if you have ever wondered how to steer a messy early architecture without rewriting everything :)
“How S3 is built” from The Pragmatic Engineer
Podcast ⸱ Jan 21, 2026 ⸱ 01h 18m 14s
tldl: S3 is one of the biggest distributed systems around (if not the biggest!), and this talk explains how it hits durability and availability across millions of servers, why it assumes failure by default. Watch it if you want to learn about large scale systems tradeoffs.

📆 New talks

Here’s the complete list of all the talks published since the last issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by number of views for your convenience.

Go to 📆 New talks

📆 New podcasts

Here’s the complete list of all the podcasts published since the last issue.

Go to 📆 New podcasts

🗄️ New talks & podcasts by category

All the items from 📆 New talks and 📆 New podcasts organized by category.

Go to 🗄️ Categories

📈 Most-watched talks

Find the most watched talks from the past 7d, 30d, 90d, 6m, and 12m:

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This issue is free for everyone, so feel free to share or forward it!

Found something useful? Hit the ❤️ or leave a comment. Thank you 🙏

Enjoy the weekend ☀️ and see you next week!

💥 Issue 90: Are your access tokens secure?!, Rust beyond memory safety, Leading teams in the GenAI era, Semantic search, ADHD productivity hacks, Evolution of security attacks

Tech Talks Weekly — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:01:04 GMT

Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #90!

This week, we’ve got 128 talks from 34 conferences and 78 new podcast episodes.

I also decided to improve the structure of the newsletter. From now on, it includes:

🏆 Featured this week. Nothing changed here. For those of you who recently joined, it features the must-watch talks and podcasts of the week. It also contains a short hand-written summary which readers love as it saves them time!
📆 New talks now includes links to conferences where you can see all the recent talks ordered by number of views.
📆 New podcasts now includes a link to all the recent podcasts ordered by date.
🗄️ New talks & podcasts by category* now includes links to all the categories in this issue.
📈 Most-watched talks* includes a link to the most-watched talks in the past 7, 30, 90, 180, and 360 days.

* available to Plus subscribers, which you can try out for free

Go ahead, check it out, and let me know what you think!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Watch now or bookmark!

“Are you sure your access tokens are really secure? - Wesley Cabus - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jan 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 36s
tldw: This talk exposes common validation mistakes that let attackers use forged tokens and shows the tests you can write to stop them.
“Keynote: Rust is not about memory safety - Helge Penne - NDC TechTown 2025”
Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jan 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 06s
tldw: This keynote argues that Rust’s type system (which is imo great) that includes typed error handling, lack of implicit conversions, Option and Result APIs, sum types, ... makes incorrect programs harder to write. Worth watching if you want to know why Rust community is so enthusiastic :)
“Beyond the code: Leading engineering teams in the GenAI era | Addy Osmani | LeadDev New York 2025”
Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 20s
tldw: The narrative that AI will replace engineers or solve all our problems is misleading. You’ll learn how engineering leaders should approach the “70% Problem”, i.e. how AI excels at routine coding tasks but still requires significant human expertise for the critical remaining 30% that makes the difference between functional code and excellent software.
“Supercharged Search with Semantic Search and Vector Embeddings - Giorgi Dalakishvili”
Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jan 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 00s
tldw: A hands-on walk through semantic search and vector embeddings. You will learn how to generate embeddings using large language models with OpenAI. Watch it if you want a really good getting started guide to building similarity search.
“The Art of Focus: Managing Productivity with an ADHD Brain - Alyssa Nicoll - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jan 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 45s
tldw: People with ADHD have some really good ways to manage focus that everyone should know. You’ll learn practical tools like the Eisenhower Matrix, time blocking and yes bribery.
“Leading without committing: Managing teams outside your tech stack | Robin Bonatesta | LeadDev NYC”
Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jan 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 55s
tldw: You don’t need to be the most technical person to lead an engineering team well. This talk shows how to build technical trust without being the deepest expert, set team processes that work across stacks and support engineer growth.
“The Evolution of Security Attacks and Threats - Niall Merrigan - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 48s
tldw: This talk will take you to the journey through the history of security attacks and will show you the evolution of security attacks and people’s response. You will learn that history repeats itself and how some of the most simple things in the world can be used to hack all the things.
“How to Decentralize Architecture Decisions (Without Chaos)”
Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jan 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 40s
tldw: See a practical case study of moving from “ivory tower” architecture to a decentralized decision process. It shows how Team Topologies, DDD context maps and ADRs helped six teams make decisions independently and what role “Architecture Advisory Forum” played.

📆 New talks

Here’s the complete list of all the talks published since the last issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by number of views for your convenience.

Go to 📆 New talks

📆 New podcasts

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💥 Issue 89: Web scraping in Python, Future of React, Hacking AI, Micro-frontends scalability, Rust @ Volvo, Pub/Sub security, DSPy, Interviewing in AI era, Leading when everything is on fire

Tech Talks Weekly — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:17:43 GMT

Happy Thursday 👋 and warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #89!

Last week, I launched Tech Talks Weekly Plus and your response has been incredible! More than 2200 of you have already visited it, and it’s been awesome to see so many of you decide to subscribe and support the project.

Check out the announcement if you missed it:

Now let’s get back to the issue!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Make sure to watch or listen!

“Vladimír Dušek - Dealing with today’s web scraping challenges in Python (PyData Prague #32)”
Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jan 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 47s
tldw: Web scraping keeps getting tougher with IP and geographic blocking, JavaScript rendering, device and browser fingerprinting and CAPTCHAs. This talk shows how Crawlee, an open source Python library from Apify, helps you work around those mechanisms.
“Hacking AI Systems: How to (Still) Trick Artificial Intelligence • Katharine Jarmul • GOTO 2025”
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jan 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 21s
tldw: See how easy it still is to fool modern AI, with attack examples and notebooks to try yourself.
“Rust at Volvo Cars - Julius Gustavsson - NDC TechTown 2025”
Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jan 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 04s
tldw: Volvo Cars shipped an ECU fully written in Rust; this talk shows how they did it and why Rust belongs in cars.
“Scaling Micro‑Frontends Without Coupling | AWS Strategies | Luca Mezzalira”
Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 28s
tldw: Scaling micro frontends across hundreds of teams without tight coupling is possible. Tips: favor team independence over shared code, use coarse-grained splitting, build tech-agnostic “shells”, move discovery to the edge with CDN, ...
“Predictable is better than fast | Chris Bigelow | LeadDev New York 2025”
Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 11m 39s
tldw: Choosing predictability over raw speed actually makes teams faster and systems easier to work with. This talk walks through real examples and concrete tactics for building stable workflows, tooling and team practices.
“Leading sustainably when everything is on fire | Denise Yu | LeadDev New York 2025”
Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 19s
tldw: This talk explains how to build and spend organizational capital to keep teams afloat when layoffs and hiring freezes make everything feel chaotic. Watch it if you lead engineers or want practical “real-world” ways to keep your team functioning under pressure.
“Securing your messaging networks: What needs protecting and how? - Rob Parker | MQ Summit 2025”
Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 46s
tldw: This talk shows which parts of your messaging network actually need protecting and gives concrete steps to secure brokers, topics and connections.
“DSPy: The End of Prompt Engineering - Kevin Madura, AlixPartners”
Conference ⸱ +24k views ⸱ Jan 08, 2026 ⸱ 01h 13m 13s
tldw: This talk shows how DSPy replaces fragile prompt engineering with typed Signatures, modular Modules and Optimizers that automatically tune programs for real-world tasks.
“7 Painful and Funny Tech Lead Stories to Improve Productivity • Marek Dominiak • Devoxx Poland 2024”
Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jan 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 42s
tldw: Seven funny and painful tech lead stories about seniority, questioning requirements and talking to business.
“Rethinking interviewing in an AI era | Justin Lee | LeadDev Berlin 2025”
Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 59s
tldw: AI is making many classic interview puzzles meaningless so this talk shows how to design human centered interviews that reveal how candidates think through ambiguity, weigh trade offs and communicate decisions. Worth watching if you interview or hire engineers.
“What’s The Framework of the React Future?”
Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jan 07, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 54s
tldw: Framework builders and tool authors argue which React framework patterns will win, compare routing, bundling and server rendering and show what changes for building real apps.

📆 New talks

Here’s the complete list of all the talks published since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.

Go to 📆 New talks

📆 New podcasts

Here’s the complete list of all the podcasts published since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue.

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🗄️ New talks & podcasts by category

All items from 📆 New talks and 📆 New podcasts organized by category.

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📈 Most-watched talks

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Big update: Introducing Tech Talks Weekly Plus

Tech Talks Weekly — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:31:26 GMT

Happy Monday 👋 I’m starting this week with a huge update!

Over the years, while running Tech Talks Weekly, I built a pretty huge database of Software Engineering talks and podcast episodes going back to 2020 with over 48,000 items as of writing this post.

Every week, I use it to build the newsletter and for a long time, I’ve wanted to make it available to you too.

That’s because the data is actually useful for very practical things, like:

“Show me the most-watched talks about X from the last Y days/months/years”
“Build a playlist to help me learn X”
“Give me some good talks and podcasts about Y”
“What is X community currently discussing? What are the current trends?”
“Show me recent talks and podcasts about Rust / Vue / architecture / security / X / …”
“We do a weekly/monthly team brownbag/learning session. Find good talks for my team.”
…

You can’t really do this well on YouTube as it’s not what it’s built for.

So I turned my internal tooling into something you can use too: Tech Talks Weekly Plus

It’s more than just a database and it comes with three powerful ways (imo) to find great talks and podcasts:

1️⃣ Full database access (48,000+ talks & podcasts)

Search, filter, sort, and group conference talks & podcasts from 2020 - today by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration:

2️⃣ See what everyone’s watching

Most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views:

3️⃣ Browse new talks and podcasts by category

Find new talks and podcasts organized by 🗄️ category, instead of scrolling through 📆 New Talks and 📆 New Podcasts:

All of it is updated every week.

A few important notes:

Standard Tech Talks Weekly newsletter stays free and unchanged 🎉
If you often think “I wish I could search or filter Tech Talks Weekly”, “I wish I could see the the content grouped in categories” or “I want to see what’s trending”, then this is for you.
If you never think that, then it’s probably not 🙂

That all being said, you can find Plus here:

👉 https://plus.techtalksweekly.io

Tech Talks Weekly Plus comes with a 3-day free trial. After that, it’s ~~$12~~ $7/mo when billed annually (launch price available until the end of January). It’s likely to be expensed by your company education budget (if you have one).

As always, if you have feedback or feature requests, just reply to this email. I read all of them.

See you on Wednesday ☀️!

💥 Issue 88 - Tech Talks Weekly Plus is here!

Tech Talks Weekly — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:41:09 GMT

Happy New Year!

We’re starting 2026 with a really exciting update:

Tech Talks Weekly Plus is here!

YouTube is not great at recommending conference talks / podcasts because the content is long, specialized, and aimed at narrower audiences.

This is why I started Tech Talks Weekly: to make it easier to find the next great talk / podcast to watch and make sure you never miss out on the good ones.

This week, I’m launching Tech Talks Weekly Plus!

Tech Talks Weekly Plus is an extended version of each TTW issue with some really great (imo) extras. It’s available under plus.techtalksweekly.io

With Plus, you can:

Search, filter, sort the entire Tech Talks Weekly archive (48,000+ talks & podcasts) from 2020 to today.
You get access to the entire Tech Talks Weekly database I use every week to build new issues. This includes talks from +100 major Software Engineering conferences and even more podcasts.
Get the category-based view of new talks and podcasts.
You no longer need to scroll through the long lists of 📆 New Talks and 📆 New Podcasts to find those that interest you.
See the most-watched talks.
From the last 7d, 30d, 90d, 6m, and 12m, so you never miss what everyone is watching right now.

Try it here:

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🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Make sure to watch or listen!

“The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages - Kevlin Henney - NDC TechTown 2025”
Conference ⸱ +12k views ⸱ Dec 31, 2025 ⸱ 01h 09m 52s
tldw: A tour of how programming languages sit between hardware and ideas, why they change slowly and how open source and LLMs could reshape them.
“Clean Code - it is not that easy • Łukasz Szydło • Devoxx Poland 2024”
Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 02, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 45s
tldw: Clean code isn’t just conventions or passing static analysis. This talk shows techniques and metrics to make code quality less subjective and easier to evaluate.
“Claude Agent SDK [Full Workshop] — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic”
Conference ⸱ +27k views ⸱ Jan 05, 2026 ⸱ 01h 52m 25s
tldw: Hands-on workshop building a Claude Agent SDK harness from scratch that shows the agent loop, a bash tool for real-world actions and using the filesystem as memory.
“Fast and Safe Image Decoding in Rust—by Jonathan Behrens—Seattle Rust User Group, December 2025”
Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jan 06, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 31s
tldw: This talk walks through image formats and lossless compression and shares lessons from building fast safe image decoders in Rust.
“When to give up, and how? - Björn Fahller - NDC TechTown 2025”
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jan 02, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 42s
tldw: When to give up, and how? shows what to do when a program ends up in a contradictory or unrecoverable state and walks through options like crashing, trying to save it or isolating the bad state.
“20 Years of OSS Databases” from The Cloudcast
Podcast ⸱ Jan 07, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 56s
tldl: This talk traces 20 years of open source databases, from MySQL forks to cloud native systems, and explains how AI is changing what we need from storage and queries.

🗄️ New Talks & Podcasts By Category

Here’s the complete list of talks and podcasts in this issue organized by category.

Go to Tech Talks Weekly Plus.

📈 Most Watched

Find the most watched talks from the past 7d, 30d, 90d, 6m, and 12m. See what everyone else is watching right now.

Go to Tech Talks Weekly Plus.

📆 New Talks

Here’s the complete list of all the talks published since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.

This section is available in Tech Talks Weekly Plus for free.

📆 New Podcasts

Here’s the complete list of all the podcasts published since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue.

This section is available in Tech Talks Weekly Plus for free.

This issue is free for everyone, so feel free to share or forward it!

Found something useful? Hit the ❤️ or leave a comment. Thank you 🙏

Enjoy the weekend ☀️ and see you next week!

2025 in review

Tech Talks Weekly — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:08:21 GMT

Happy Thursday 👋

2025 has been a fantastic year in many ways. Tech Talks Weekly grew to over 7,600 readers and five new features were introduced including podcasts and short summaries (read about all of them here).

This year, 55 issues were published, and the most popular ones were:

🏆 100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2024 that went viral on HN and generated over 69,000 views which is an absolutely incredible number. The 2025 edition is in the works, so stay tuned!
🏆 Most-Watched Talks in Java, Rust, Go, JS, Python, Kotlin & C++ of 2025 (so far)
🏆 50 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2025 (so far)

The talks you clicked on the most this year:

“Building Agents with Model Context Protocol - Full Workshop with Mahesh Murag of Anthropic” ⸱ +309k views ⸱ 01 Mar 2025 ⸱ 01h 44m 12s
“Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) - Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford” ⸱ +282k views ⸱ 23 Jul 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 12s
“The 3 Golden Rules of Distributed Systems” ⸱ +3k views ⸱ 15 Sep 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 50s
“Software engineering with GenAI | | LDX3 London 2025” ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 10 Aug 2025 ⸱ 00h 27m 08s
“Vibes won’t cut it — Chris Kelly, Augment Code” ⸱ +85k views ⸱ 03 Aug 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 34s
“From Junior to Staff Engineer in 15 Years: The Hard Truths” ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 25 Aug 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 04s
“Top 10 Event Driven Architecture Pitfalls by Victor Rentea” ⸱ +6k views ⸱ 09 Oct 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 54s
“Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher” ⸱ +201k views ⸱ 08 Oct 2025 ⸱ 01h 14m 12s
“Google’s engineering culture” ⸱ +221k views ⸱ 15 Oct 2025 ⸱ 02h 46m 20s
“You Don’t Know Git - Edward Thomson - NDC London 2025” ⸱ +57k views ⸱ 31 Mar 2025 ⸱ 01h 01m 56s

Looking ahead

2026 is going to be the most exciting year so far with the launch of Tech Talks Weekly Plus. This will be a paid plan that gives you access to:

The complete Tech Talks Weekly database with +50,000 talks and podcasts published since 2020. The database will be fully searchable, filterable, and promptable. How nice would it be to see the most-watched Java or Python talks at any time or build a comprehensive podcasts playlist on Rust concurrency or k8s operators to listen on the go?
Category-based lists of new talks (Java, Python, Kubernetes, React, and many more) meaning you no longer need to scroll through the long lists of 📆 New Talks and 📆 New Podcasts to find only those that interest you.
Trending talks lists from the past 7, 30 and 90 days, so you never miss what everyone is watching right now.

Tech Talks Weekly Plus will launch in early 2026.

If you’d like to be the first to hear about it and get an early-bird discount, reply with a simple “yes” to this email.

Time for New Year’s resolutions

You are subscribed to Tech Talks Weekly because you are clearly passionate about software development and engineering and it’s quite likely you want to continuously learn something new.

In 2025, I’ve been trying to stick to an at-least-one-talk-per-week routine (yes, I’m not watching all the featured talks as many of you asked 🙂) and I managed to watch over 71 this year so far. In 2026, my goal is to go beyond that number.

If you want to form a similar habit in 2026, don’t forget Tech Talks Weekly is a great start to find your next talk/podcast!

Happy holidays ❄ ☀️ and see you in January!

💥 Issue 87: 2025 State of cloud, Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng?!, Rust’s atomic memory model, Vibe Coding costs tou 20% productivity, Data Engineering fundamentals, ...

Tech Talks Weekly — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:59:40 GMT

Happy Wednesday 👋 and warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #87!

Recently, the emails have become quite long and to make them easier to read and navigate, I’ll be moving the 📆 New Talks and 📆 New Podcasts sections to a separate static page.

Instead of listing all talks directly in the email, you’ll now find a link that takes you to a dedicated page with the list.

Over time, I might improve these pages with features such as search or filtering.

I hope you like this change!

Just before we start…

Hit the ❤️ or leave a comment if you like this issue. It helps more readers discover Tech Talks Weekly on Substack.

Thank you 🙏

Now get ready and let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Make sure to watch or listen!

⭐️ “Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng? (Stanford 120k Devs Study) – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford”
Conference ⸱ +17k views ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 40s
tldw: Stanford data from 120k developers explains why identical AI tools can give 0% productivity increase in some teams and 25%+ in others and shares a framework for measuring real ROI instead of tracking PR counts or DORA.
⭐️ If you have time for only one talk this week, watch this one.
“GopherCon 2025: An Operating System in Go - Patricio Whittingslow”
Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 23m 10s
tldw: This talk proves Go can be a systems programming language by showing an OS built with TinyGo, with live demos and enough surprises to make you want to watch it.
“Rust’s Atomic Memory Model: The Logic Behind Safe Concurrency - Martin Ombura Jr. | EuroRust 2025”
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Dec 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 39m 14s
tldw: Watch this talk to learn how Ordering types like Relaxed, Acquire, Release, AcqRel and SeqCst control visibility and performance and how Mutex, Once and Arc use them in real code.
“Getting Buy-In: Overcoming Larman’s Law • Allen Holub • GOTO 2025”
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 56m 17s
tldw: Organizational inertia makes good ideas sound like religion or theory. This talk shows how to build a business case using Conway’s Law, value stream mapping and time value of money so you can actually get buy-in for e.g. mob programming and no-estimation approachs.
“Vibe Coding Costs You 20% Productivity | Shawn Swyx Wang”
Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Dec 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 03s
tldw: AI “vibe coding” cuts real productivity by about 20% by piling up technical debt. This talk shows the data as well as solutions you can actually use like to improve it.
“AWS re:Invent 2025 - Advanced feature flags: Faster releases and rapid recovery (DEV320)”
Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 53m 20s
tldw: Feature flags are more than on/off switches and this code first talk shows real AppConfig examples.
“2025 State of Cloud in Review” from The Cloudcast
Podcast ⸱ Dec 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 03s
tldl: 2025 State of Cloud in Review summarizes the year in cloud, hands out awards and flags the biggest trends of 2025. Listen if you want a quick catch up on what happened this year.
“Fundamentals of Data Engineering • Matt Housley & Joe Reis” from GOTO
Podcast ⸱ Dec 16, 2025 ⸱ 00h 33m 20s
tldl: Two data engineering authors explain core principles, common tradeoffs and architecture patterns for building reliable data pipelines.
“#201 The “AI is going to replace devs” hype is over – 22-year developer veteran Jason Lengstorf” from The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Podcast ⸱ Dec 12, 2025 ⸱ 01h 08m 25s
tldl: A 22-year developer explains why the “AI will replace devs” panic fizzled, how hiring overreacted and is rebounding and what actually helps you land roles in the post-LLM job market.
“The AI Productivity Gap with Keith Townsend” from Screaming in the Cloud
Podcast ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 23s
tldl: AI tools are making solo founders absurdly productive while big companies treat them like radioactive material. Watch this conversation for real stories about a biopharma rejecting Copilot, why startups can risk what enterprises can’t and what needs to change to close the gap.
“Valhalla? Python? Withers? Lombok? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne’25”
Conference ⸱ +11k views ⸱ Dec 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 02s
tldw: A live panel of Java architects answers audience questions on Valhalla, Loom, Lombok, ... and whether Java should give up semicolons.
“GeeCON 2024: Ron Veen - Stream Gathers - The biggest change to Java Streams since 10 years”
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Dec 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 26s
tldw: Java 22 finally gives streams real custom intermediate operations with Stream Gatherers, making what you can do in the middle of a stream much more flexible. Watch this to see the new API and a custom gatherer built from start to finish.

📈 The Most Watched This Week

See what everyone’s watching this week and don’t miss out! Here are the top 10 most-watched talks ranked by views/publishing time.

“From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering – Kitze, Sizzy” ⸱ +33k views ⸱ Dec 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 28s
“Next.js at the speed of Bun” ⸱ +17k views ⸱ Dec 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 51s
“What We Learned Deploying AI within Bloomberg’s Engineering Organization – Lei Zhang, Bloomberg” ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Dec 16, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 21s
“Building in the Gemini Era – Kat Kampf & Ammaar Reshi, Google DeepMind” ⸱ +9k views ⸱ Dec 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 57s
“Proactive Agents – Kath Korevec, Google Labs” ⸱ +18k views ⸱ Dec 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 51s
“Valhalla? Python? Withers? Lombok? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne’25” ⸱ +11k views ⸱ Dec 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 02s
tldw: A live panel of Java architects answers audience questions on Valhalla, Loom, Lombok, ... and whether Java should give up semicolons.
“Moving away from Agile: What’s Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company” ⸱ +16k views ⸱ Dec 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 21m 55s
“Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng? (Stanford 120k Devs Study) – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford” ⸱ +17k views ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 40s
tldw: Stanford data from 120k developers explains why identical AI tools can give 0% productivity increase in some teams and 25%+ in others and shares a framework for measuring real ROI instead of tracking PR counts or DORA.
“Hard Won Lessons from Building Effective AI Coding Agents – Nik Pash, Cline” ⸱ +11k views ⸱ Dec 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 14m 18s
“The State of AI Code Quality: Hype vs Reality — Itamar Friedman, Qodo” ⸱ +12k views ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 21m 15s

📆 New talks

Here’s the complete list of all the talks published since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.

This section is available here.

📆 New podcasts

Here’s the complete list of all the podcasts published since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue.

This section is available here.

This issue is free for everyone, so feel free to share or forward it!

Found something useful? Hit the ❤️ or leave a comment. Thank you 🙏

Enjoy the weekend ☀️ and see you next week!

💥 Issue 86: Werner’s last keynote?!, AI paradox: faster coding slower shipping, Multi-threading in JS, Java 26 features, Being a founding engineer @ AI startup

Tech Talks Weekly — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:04:40 GMT

Happy Wednesday 👋 and warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #86!

First of all, I cross-posted this issue to LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Mastodon and would love your support there. Thank you 🙏

This issue is really massive with over 1063 new talks published in the past week together with 78 new podcasts.

I highly recommend watching AWS re:Invent 2025 keynote by Werner Vogels published on Friday. I’ve always been a big fan of Werner’s keynotes as he brings a unique style, authenticity and incredible insights. Sadly, this year marked his final re:Invent keynote and his message was simple yet profound: the future belongs to developers who are capable of taking full ownership, think in systems, stay extremely curious, and use AI with intention. He called it the “Renaissance developer”. I don’t want to spoiler anymore. You’ll find the link below in the 🏆 Featured this week section.

Besides the keynote, it’s almost the end of the year, so there are TONS of great talks on the list this week. Get ready and let’s jump right in!

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🏆 Featured this week

Here are our top recommendations this week. Make sure to watch or listen!

“AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels”
Conference ⸱ +467k views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 16m 18s
tldw: Werner Vogels’s final keynote focusing on whether “will AI will take my job”. Very interesting, I highly recommend it to watch.
“AI paradox: faster coding, slower shipping | by
Conference ⸱ +13k views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 42s
tldw: Watch this talk to learn why AI speeds coding but slows shipping and what can we do about it.
“Being a founding engineer at an AI startup” from
Podcast ⸱ Dec 03, 2025 ⸱ 01h 04m 25s
tldl: An early Warp engineer explains why she chose risky offers, how to negotiate equity and what founders look for in early engineers, with concrete advice for joining or becoming a founding engineer at an AI startup.
“AWS re:Invent 2025 - The future of Kubernetes on AWS (CNS205)”
Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 33s
tldw: Kubernetes on AWS is fast becoming the default for running modern apps at scale. This session shows the latest EKS features and real world patterns for running heavy workloads in the cloud on premises and at the edge.
“AWS re:Invent 2025 - DynamoDB: Resilience & lessons from the Oct 2025 service disruption (DAT453)”
Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Dec 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 59m 11s
tldw: A postmortem on DynamoDB’s October 20, 2025 outage shows how a DNS management system triggered the service disruption and what fixes were made.
“AWS re:Invent 2025 - What’s new with AWS Lambda (CNS376)”
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 56s
tldw: AWS Lambda has just been equipped with features that push it beyond simple event handlers into web apps, AI and event processing. Watch this short re:Invent talk to see what’s new and whether it fits your stack.
“Microservices Reality: Stop Fighting Environments & MOCK Your Dependencies!”
Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 52s
tldw: Microservices promise decoupling but usually leave dev environments fragile and slow teams down. This talk explains how observability, contract testing and realistic API simulation can get you shipping fast again, with demos using WireMock and LLMs.
“Dani Coll - Multithreading in Javascript”
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 23m 09s
tldw: JavaScript’s single thread can bottleneck CPU heavy work but Web Workers let you run tasks in parallel and use more cores. This talk demos adding Web Workers to a frontend app and explains the pros and cons and when to use them.
“Composition, Caching, and Architecture in modern Next.js”
Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Dec 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 29m 47s
tldw: This talk breaks down the Next.js App Router, React Server Components and practical routing and caching techniques shown on real projects.
: You’re Ignoring Optionality… and Paying for It” from Maintainable
Podcast ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 31s
tldl: This talk shows how teams quietly burn optionality and why making decisions reversible and tidying between releases saves time and money.
“Weekend Coding: Five FastAPI Apps You Can Create From Scratch” by
Podcast ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 09m 25s
tldl: Listen to learn how to build five beginner friendly FastAPI apps in a weekend with clear steps, simple example code and concrete project ideas you can finish.
“All Features in Java 26 - Inside Java Newscast #102”
Podcast ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 11m 05s
tldl: HTTP/3, AOT caching with any GC, G1 performance gains, primitive patterns, structured concurrency and a bunch of smaller changes.

📈 The Most Watched This Week

See what everyone’s watching this week and don’t miss out! Here are the top 10 most-watched talks ranked by views/publishing time.

“AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels” ⸱ +467k views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 16m 18s
“Don’t Build Agents, Build Skills Instead – Barry Zhang & Mahesh Murag, Anthropic” ⸱ +87k views ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 22s
“Agent Reinforcement Fine Tuning – Will Hang & Cathy Zhou, OpenAI” ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 55s
“2026: The Year The IDE Died — Steve Yegge & Gene Kim, Authors, Vibe Coding” ⸱ +15k views ⸱ Dec 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 59s
“Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic” ⸱ +23k views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 13m 25s
“AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian” ⸱ +24k views ⸱ Dec 03, 2025 ⸱ 01h 41m 26s
“Efficient Reinforcement Learning – Rhythm Garg & Linden Li, Applied Compute” ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 19s
“AI paradox: faster coding, slower shipping | by Addy Osmani” ⸱ +13k views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 42s
“RL Environments at Scale – Will Brown, Prime Intellect” ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 30s
“AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown” ⸱ +12k views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 24m 52s

📆 New talks

Here’s the complete list of all the talks published since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.

📆 New podcasts

Here’s the complete list of all the podcasts published since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue.

“ASP.NET Community Standup - Build agentic UI with AG-UI and Blazor” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 25s
“How AI is evolving Enterprise Infrastructure” from The Cloudcast ⸱ Dec 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 52s
“SE Radio 698: Srujana Merugu on How to build an LLM App” from Software Engineering Radio ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 01h 18m 30s
“413: TZ Discussion - The Deadline” from Techzing ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 02h 02m 09s
“Anthropic’s Bet on Bun, React2Shell, Vite 8 Beta, and Elves Spam npm | News | Ep 47” from TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 55m 34s
“From developer to builder/system designer, managing AI agents like team members & monday.com’s evolving R&D playbook w/ Daniel Lereya #239” from The Engineering Leadership Podcast ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 39s
“C++ Memory Management • Patrice Roy & Kevin Carpenter” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 21s
“Small is the new big: How to get started with open source AI” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 13m 37s
“C++ Memory Management • Patrice Roy & Kevin Carpenter” from GOTO ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 20s
“Jay Tennier: How Testing Platform Rainforest QA Tests Itself” from On Rails Podcast ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 01h 40m 04s
“The hidden costs of pre-computing data | Chalk’s Elliot Marx” from Dev Interrupted ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 49s
“Blocking Software Supply Chain Attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh” from Software Engineering Daily ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 48s
“Making OAuth Scale Securely for MCPs - Aaron Parecki - ASW #360” from Application Security Weekly ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 01h 07m 43s
“#461 This episdoe has a typo” from Python Bytes ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 28m 50s
“On .NET Live - On .NET Live | Patterns in Messaging Systems” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 01h 05m 28s
“AI is a crystal ball into your codebase” from The Stack Overflow Podcast ⸱ Dec 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 34m 54s
“The “confident idiot” problem (News)” from The Changelog ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 07m 47s
“961: Keeping Up With The Fast and Furious Web” from Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 28m 02s
“Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)” from The Peterman Pod ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 53m 04s
“Episode 182 - Matan Yungman’s Show-and-Tell of Rapido” from SQL Server Radio ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 40s
“#242 - The End of Traditional Management: Reimagining Work for AI-First Organization - Jurgen Appelo” from Tech Lead Journal ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 01h 18m 00s
“Bridging the Open Source Gap: From Funding Paradoxes to Digital Sovereignty” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 26m 14s
“Bridging the Open Source Gap: From Funding Paradoxes to Digital Sovereignty” from The InfoQ Podcast ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 26m 13s
“694: Invoicing with Studioworks with Jessica and Chris” from Shop Talk Show ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 01h 01m 20s
“Will Larson Reflects on Staff Engineer” from Book Overflow ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 01h 03m 15s
“Chris Wilke: Generated AI Stories - Episode 379” from Azure DevOps Podcast ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 38m 46s
“492: SwiftData & CloudKit Sync “Just Work” Right?” from Merge Conflict ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 18s
“Pyversity with Thomas van Dongen - Weaviate Podcast #132!” from Weaviate Podcast ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 31s
“Malloy: Hierarchical Data, Semantic Models, and the Future of Analytics” from Data Engineering Podcast ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 58m 48s
“Pedro Domingos: Tensor Logic Unifies AI Paradigms” from Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 01h 27m 48s
“Updating open source dependencies with Jamie Tanna” from Open Source Security ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 29m 31s
“Updating open source dependencies with Jamie Tanna” from Open Source Security Podcast ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ —
“#66: Is Kubernetes an Engineering Choice or a Must” from DevOps Accents ⸱ Dec 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 12s
“One Man Svelte for NGOs with Ilja” from Svelte Radio ⸱ Dec 06, 2025 ⸱ 01h 13m 44s
“Factorio” from Two’s Complement ⸱ Dec 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 12s
“Advent of Code 2025 in Kotlin. Day 5.” from Advent of Code 2025 in Kotlin ⸱ Dec 06, 2025 ⸱ 01h 08m 51s
“RNR 348 - From Ionic Evangelist to React Native Content Creator: Simon Grimm” from React Native Radio ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 14s
“Very important agents (Friends)” from The Changelog ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 38m 18s
“How Mcdonald’s and JPMorgan chase safely scale experimentation” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 47s
“max_connections vs migrations” from Postgres FM ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 44m 40s
“The End of Engineering’s Blank Check: Accountability in SW Leadership • Laura Tacho & Charles Humble” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 17s
“Episode 263: 🇳🇱 The Sean Parent Origin Story” from ADSP (Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs) ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 08s
“The End of Engineering’s Blank Check: Accountability in Software Leadership • Laura Tacho & Charles Humble” from GOTO ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 16s
“Docker Disasters and Dev Container Journeys” from Remote Ruby ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 17m 43s
“Embrace ai without losing control” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 52s
“Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks” from The Real Python Podcast ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 24s
“#200 How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha” from The freeCodeCamp Podcast ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 08m 48s
“Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug Development Acceleration” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 47s
“The $8 Trillion Question: Open Source, Risk, and Resilience” from DevOps Sauna from Eficode ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 27m 10s
“.NET MAUI Community Standup - .NET 10 Announcements Roundup” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 05m 35s
“Advent of Code 2025 in Kotlin. Day 4.” from Advent of Code 2025 in Kotlin ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 06m 33s
“Cancellation Tokens with Stephen Toub” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 55m 22s
“#750: re:Invent 2025 - Day 3 Wrapup” from AWS Podcast ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 22m 42s
“2.5 Admins 276: Very Prudish Network” from 2.5 Admins ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 26m 16s
“Dan Vega on the fundamentals of software engineering” from A Bootiful Podcast ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 37m 08s
“Daniel Temkin and the Beauty of Esoteric Languages” from Hanselminutes ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 35m 12s
“Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)” from The Changelog ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 30m 46s
“Quarkus in Action • Martin Stefanko, Jan Martiska & Holly Cummins • GOTO 2025” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 31m 26s
“277 - Gregory Kapfhammer” from Code with Jason ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 04m 15s
“AI Agents, Enterprise Risk, and the Future of Recovery: Rubrik’s Vision with Dev Rishi” from Screaming in the Cloud ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 36m 26s
“Pydantic AI with Samuel Colvin” from Software Engineering Daily ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 57m 28s
“.NET AI Community Standup - Build Cross-Platform .NET Apps with Uno Platform & AI!” from Unknown conference ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 01m 47s
“Advent of Code 2025 in Kotlin. Day 3.” from Advent of Code 2025 in Kotlin ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 05m 22s
“Building an AI App with Calum Simpson” from .NET Rocks! ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 00s
“#749: re:Invent 2025 - Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote” from AWS Podcast ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 27m 07s
“Are we building the right thing?” from Adventures in DevOps ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 36m 02s
“SE Radio 697: Philip Kiely on Multi-Model AI” from Software Engineering Radio ⸱ Dec 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 56m 33s

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