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Happy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #114!

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🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path • Patrick Kua • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 39s

tldw: Patrick Kua, the author of Talking with Tech Leads, has been growing technical leaders for over a decade and shares practical advice on what it means to be a good technical leader and where to get started.

2. “WebAssembly on Kubernetes • Nicolas Frankel • YOW! 2025” from YOW! Australia 2025

Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jul 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 49s

tldw: WebAssembly began as a browser technology but is quickly finding a home on the server, and its next frontier is cloud-native. Nicolas Fränkel, Head of Developer Advocacy at Apache APISIX, shows how pairing Wasm with Kubernetes can reshape application deployment and open up new possibilities for running cloud-native workloads. You’ll learn where server-side WebAssembly fits today and where it is heading.

3. “How to Think like a Performance Engineer - Harry Roberts - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 46s

tldw: Site-speed tooling is getting better and better, but has performance testing actually become any easier or more trustworthy? Harry Roberts, independent web performance consultant and Google Developer Expert, audits client projects every day and argues the areas of confusion have only grown: which tools to use, whether to trust them and how to run tests that are realistic and actionable. He walks through practical tools and workflows so every test has a purpose and yields data you can truly leverage.

4. “WhatsApp Private Processing - Kevin Hui, Yunqi Li, Elizabeth Li, Henry Wang & Varun Patil, Meta” from Confidential Computing Summit 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 53s

tldw: WhatsApp is famous for the first large-scale applications of confidential computing when it launched Private Processing, its flagship use case for privacy-preserving AI. Engineers from Meta walk through how Private Processing actually works, the operational lessons of deploying confidential virtual machines at WhatsApp scale and where they expect the stack to evolve in the years ahead. This is a good talk that gives a rare inside look at running confidential computing for one of the world’s largest messaging platforms.

5. “From Reactive to Proactive: How Intuit Credit Karma Solved Data Quality at Scale - Beam Summit 2026” from Beam Summit 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 14s

tldw: At Intuit Credit Karma, the Credit Ecosystem team powers the financial progress of millions of members using massive datasets from all three major credit bureaus and many partners, spanning hundreds of tables and tens of thousands of columns. With daily loads impacting more than 140 million members, manual monitoring became impossible. Puneet Singh and Veenit Shah share how the team leveraged Monte Carlo to move from reactive firefighting to proactive observability, building data quality standards around five pillars: Timeliness, Completeness, Accuracy, Observability and Governance.

📆 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.

AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 (36), AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026 (22), Beam Summit 2026 (25), CONFidence 2026 (1), CascadiaJS 2026 (4), Code BEAM Europe 2025 (3), Confidential Computing Summit 2026 (48), ElixirConf EU 2026 (1), EuroPython 2026 (1), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1), Global Capability Centers Growth Summit 2026 (1), GopherConAU 2024 (17), InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 (1), JCON EUROPE 2026 (5), JSNation 2026 (1), KotlinConf 2026 (7), Meeting C++ 2026 (1), NDC Toronto 2026 (5), Oh My Hack 2025 (2), QCon AI New York 2025 (1), QCon San Francisco 2025 (1), React Summit 2026 (1), Tokyo Executive Forum 2026 (3), YOW! Australia 2025 (1), performance.now() 2025 (1)

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🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

This issue’s talks and podcasts, sorted by view count and organized by topic.

AI Engineering

1. “Every company should have a Brain — Garry Tan, Y Combinator” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +26k views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 08s

2. “The Great Loops Debate — Dex Horthy, Geoff Huntley, Ian Livingstone, Greg Pstrucha, @insecure-agents” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +9k views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 16s

3. “Stop Burning Tokens: Why self-improvement needs domain expertise first - Annabell Schäfer, Langfuse” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Jul 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 39s

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AWS

1. “Voice Agents That Handle Interrupts - Chintan Agrawal and Daniel Wirjo, AWS” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 57s

2. “Tokyo Executive Forum 2026 - A Leader’s Guide to AI Strategy & Implementation in the Agentic AI Era” from Tokyo Executive Forum 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 26s

3. “Overview of the AWS Nitro System: Building Trust Through Secure Cloud Infra... - M. Wilson, Amazon” from Confidential Computing Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 49s

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BEAM

1. “Building Fintech Systems That Stay Fast and Stay Compliant - Erik Stenman | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 03s

2. “Adding JIT to AtomVM - Paul Guyot | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 46s

3. “Taming 20 Million Oban Jobs in Production - Karlo Smid | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 05s

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C++

1. “Lessons learned while coding my first functional type system in constexpr C++ - Daniel Nikpayuk” from NDC Toronto 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 20s

2. “C++ User Group Organizer Panel” from Meeting C++ 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 59m 57s

Data Engineering

1. “Medic for Apache Spark - First Aid for Failing Jobs - Drasko Profirovic, Pinterest” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 11m 21s

2. “From Reactive to Proactive: How Intuit Credit Karma Solved Data Quality at Scale - Beam Summit 2026” from Beam Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 14s

3. “Building Agentic Data Pipelines: Orchestrating AI Workflows with Apache Beam - Beam Summit 2026” from Beam Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 36s

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Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “GopherConAU 2024 - Rashmi Nagpal - The Gopher Orchestra: Distributed Machine Learning with Go” from GopherConAU 2024
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 34s

Databases

1. “Your LLM Stack Is a 2008 Database With Better Marketing — Lovina Dmello, NVIDIA” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 36s

Elixir

1. “Testing Concurrency and Fault Tolerance in Elixir/Nerves - Marta Habdas | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 24s

Java

1. “Mission Possible: The 45-Minute Path to Bullet-Proof Java Container Images | Catherine Edelveis (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 31s

2. “The Wait is Over: Foreign Function & Memory API brings modern Java to the Pi | Frank Delporte (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 16s

3. “When Greed Is Good: Understanding Java Stream Performance | Cay Horstmann (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 18s

Kotlin

1. “Run, Kotlin, Run! | Marc Reichelt” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 14m 52s

2. “What Nobody Told Us About Shipping Kotlin to iOS | Suhyeon (Leah) Kim” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 29s

3. “Full-Stack Kotlin AI: Powering Compose Multiplatform apps with Koog & MCP | John O’Reilly” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 36s

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Kubernetes

1. “WebAssembly on Kubernetes • Nicolas Frankel • YOW! 2025” from YOW! Australia 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jul 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 49s

2. “GKE Hypercluster: Kubernetes TEEs for AI at Scale - Komei Nakamoto & Keith Moyer, Google” from Confidential Computing Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 18s

3. “”If It’s Shared, It’s Vulnerable”: Is Kubernetes the Right Platform for ... - Z. Kaiser, NVIDIA” from Confidential Computing Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 43s

Leadership

1. “Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path • Patrick Kua • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 39s

Misc

1. “Talking to terminals (and how they talk back) | Jake Wharton” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 22s

2. “Context Parameters and API Design | Alejandro Serrano Mena” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 16s

3. “The State of Amper | Joffrey Bion” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 56s

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Mobile

1. “Run, Kotlin, Run! | Marc Reichelt” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 14m 52s

2. “What Nobody Told Us About Shipping Kotlin to iOS | Suhyeon (Leah) Kim” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 29s

3. “Full-Stack Kotlin AI: Powering Compose Multiplatform apps with Koog & MCP | John O’Reilly” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 36s

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Python

1. “Trust Is the Next Bottleneck: Why the Agentic Economy Needs Confidential - P. Khandavilli, Microsoft” from Confidential Computing Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 04s

2. “Beyond the Black Box: How Intuit Credit Karma Runs ML Explainability for 140M Members with Beam” from Beam Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 38s

3. “The Present and Future of Beam Python Performance - Beam Summit 2026” from Beam Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 58s

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React

1. “Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering: Kitze On Why Your Agents Keep Producing Slop” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 08s

2. “From Reactive to Proactive: How Intuit Credit Karma Solved Data Quality at Scale - Beam Summit 2026” from Beam Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 14s

Rust

1. “70,000 Lines of Code, 7 Languages: How to Scale via Rust Core” from QCon San Francisco 2025
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 46s

2. “How We Replaced Crystal Reports with Rust & Typst (Sub-2ms PDFs)” from InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 47s

Security

1. “The Great Loops Debate — Dex Horthy, Geoff Huntley, Ian Livingstone, Greg Pstrucha, @insecure-agents” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +9k views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 16s

2. “Agentic Security: Permissions, Provenance, and the Agent Supply Chain — Steve Yegge, Gas Town” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 32s

3. “Through the AI Fog: The Architectural Decision Agentic Security Depends On — Manoj Nair, Snyk” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 29s

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Software Architecture

1. “Your agent architecture has a half-life of 6 months — Dan Farrelly, CTO, Inngest” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jul 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 20s

2. “Through the AI Fog: The Architectural Decision Agentic Security Depends On — Manoj Nair, Snyk” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 29s

Swift

1. “What Nobody Told Us About Shipping Kotlin to iOS | Suhyeon (Leah) Kim” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 29s

Web / Frontend

1. “Building Apps With ATProto” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 45s

2. “Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering: Kitze On Why Your Agents Keep Producing Slop” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 08s

3. “The Request Tax: Re-evaluating 20+ Years of Web Performance Dogma” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 08m 36s

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Web Assembly

1. “WebAssembly on Kubernetes • Nicolas Frankel • YOW! 2025” from YOW! Australia 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jul 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 49s

2. “GopherConAU 2024 - Kay Sawada - WASM on Edge Serverless; Make Your Life Easier with Go and TinyGo” from GopherConAU 2024
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 14s

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Happy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #113!

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🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “Code Once, Use Everywhere: Building a Shared Module used by Multiple Projects @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026

Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jul 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 07s

tldw: Vadzim Prudnikau takes a deep dive into the structure of one Spring Boot module from a real shared library built at his company. He walks through its design, configuration and documentation with the actual code on screen so you can see how everything fits together and learn to avoid common mistakes like overcomplicating auto-configuration or leaking internal dependencies. He also shares tips that are rarely mentioned in books or official docs.

2. “Build Your Own BEAM - Martin Janiczek | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025

Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 48s

tldw: Martin Janiczek, a senior software engineer and Elm enthusiast, builds a toy single-threaded implementation of the BEAM scheduler from the ground up. He runs example programs on it and visualizes what it is doing under the hood, covering spawning, preemptivity, messaging and links.

3. “3 Dimensions of NgRx Signals: Choosing the Best Fit for Your App | Marko Stanimirovic | ng-conf 2025” from ng-conf 2025

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 42s

tldw: NgRx Signals is one of the fastest-growing packages in the Angular ecosystem, offering a reactive and flexible approach to state management. Marko Stanimirovic, core NgRx team member and lead author of the @ngrx/signals library, explores three techniques for managing state with NgRx Signals, each adaptable to different application needs. You will learn how to leverage APIs like SignalState, SignalStore and the SignalStore Events Plugin, then how to pick the approach that best aligns with your project’s requirements.

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4. “EU AI Act. What is this thing? (Part 1) (Ep. 310)” from Data Science at Home

Podcast ⸱ Jul 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 31s

tldl: What exactly is the EU AI Act? In part one of this series, Francesco Gadaleta, senior software engineer and founder of Amethix Technologies, breaks down the regulation and explains what it means for the people building AI systems.

https://datascienceathome.podbean.com/e/eu-ai-act-what-is-this-thing-part-1/

5. “How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll” from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Podcast ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 20s

tldl: The infinite scroll we know from social media today is despised by nearly everyone, yet it began as a backend optimization rather than a UX decision. Hussein Nasser, backend engineer, educator and author of Root Cause, traces how infinite scroll actually originated from a UI change meant to relieve the database from inefficient paging queries. He walks through classic paged results, their limitations, how TikTok pushed the scroll interface forward.

6. “Formal Methods for Every Engineer in an AI-Powered Future” from InfoQ

Podcast ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:23:13

tldl: On InfoQ’s Engineering Culture Podcast, Shane Hastie talks with Gabriela Moreira, research engineer and lead of the Quint specification language at Informal Systems, about making formal methods accessible to everyday engineers. They explore how AI is lowering the barrier to entry for model-based testing and why defining correct system behaviour remains essential human work in the AI era.

7. “The Creator of Pandas on AI, Apache Arrow, and the Future of Software Engineering” from Data Engineering Central Podcast

Podcast ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 12s

tldl: Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, joins the Data Engineering Central Podcast for a conversation on how modern data engineering came to exist and where AI is taking software development. He traces his path from building GoldenEye fan sites as a teenager to writing Pandas at a quantitative hedge fund and launching Apache Arrow, touching on DuckDB, DataFusion, Parquet, Spark and the shift from Hadoop to lakehouses. He also explains why large language models make experienced engineers more productive without replacing them, why architecture and good taste now matter more than individual lines of code and why projects like Arrow remain so hard to recreate with AI alone.

Data Engineering Central

The Creator of Pandas on AI, Apache Arrow, and the Future of Software Engineering

The creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, Wes McKinney, joins the Data Engineering Central Podcast for an in-depth conversation about how modern data engineering came to exist, where AI is taking software development, and why good engineering still matters more than ever…

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8. “1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem” from Syntax

Podcast ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 20s

tldl: This episode discusses the pains of AI-assisted development, from the struggle of reviewing thousands of lines of agent-generated code to the technical debt that piles up when teams merge PRs without meaningful human review. Scott Tolinski and Wes Bos also get into local models, whether jujutsu really beats git, how freelancers should price their work in the AI era and how to get your team on board with external libraries.

https://syntax.fm/1019

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AI Engineer Europe 2026 (3), AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 (34), CascadiaJS 2026 (6), CityJS Singapore 2026 (1), Code BEAM Europe 2025 (3), ElixirConf EU 2026 (2), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1), JCON EUROPE 2026 (6), JDD 2025 (1), JSNation 2026 (1), KotlinConf 2025 (1), KotlinConf 2026 (7), KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 (1), NDC Copenhagen 2026 (1), React Summit 2026 (1), Spring I/O 2026 (4), YOW! 2025 (1), ng-conf 2025 (1), performance.now() 2025 (2)

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AI Engineering

1. “What do we build now? — Theo Browne, @t3dotgg” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +71k views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 02s

2. “The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +38k views ⸱ Jul 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 13s

3. “Understanding is the new bottleneck — Geoffrey Litt, Notion” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +35k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 33s

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AWS

1. “Stop AI Agent Hallucinations: 5 Techniques + Production Patterns - Elizabeth Fuentes, AWS” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 19s

Angular

1. “3 Dimensions of NgRx Signals: Choosing the Best Fit for Your App | Marko Stanimirovic | ng-conf 2025” from ng-conf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 42s

BEAM

1. “Reactor Under the Hood: Building a Graph-Based Saga Orchestrator in Elixir, James Harton | Code BEAM” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 06s

2. “Concurrent AI Evaluation: Scaling Model Performance Monitoring with OTP- Ramiro Matteoda | Code BEAM” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 50s

3. “Build Your Own BEAM - Martin Janiczek | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 48s

C# / .NET

1. “.NET Testing Techniques You Didn’t Know You Needed - Dante De Ruwe - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 44s

2. “The Green Shift: Transitioning .NET Services Across Architectures • Sara Bergman • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jul 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 46s

DevOps

1. “Every Solo Agent Builder Eventually Reinvents a Worse Version of CI/CD - Sumaiya Shrabony” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 51s

Elixir

1. “Reactor Under the Hood: Building a Graph-Based Saga Orchestrator in Elixir, James Harton | Code BEAM” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 06s

2. “Hologram: The Journey to Local-First Elixir in the Browser - Bart Blast | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 15s

3. “AI-Powered Search at Scale - Jeff Weiss | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 47s

Java

1. “Code Once, Use Everywhere: Building a Shared Module used by Multiple Projects @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jul 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 07s

2. “Architectural Patterns for Spring Security You Wish Your Tech Lead Knew @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 45s

3. “Hybrid Modernization: Combining OpenRewrite’s Precision with LLM Intelligence for Spring @ Spring IO” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 23s

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Kotlin

1. “Local Lifetimes for Kotlin | Ross Tate” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 33s

2. “TestBalloon: Kotlin testing is easier (and more fun) than you think. Oliver Okrongli, Bernd Prünster” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 22s

3. “Concurrency Patterns for Modern High Performance Kotlin Servers | Bowen Feng” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 53s

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Leadership

1. “Architectural Patterns for Spring Security You Wish Your Tech Lead Knew @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 45s

Misc

1. “Metro Under the Hood | Zac Sweers” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 33s

2. “Peeling back the Layers: A Navigation3 Deep Dive | Marcello Galhardo and Ian Lake” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Jul 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 33s

3. “Aviva Peisach - From Hero to Zero” from JDD 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 13s

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Mobile

1. “Local Lifetimes for Kotlin | Ross Tate” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 33s

2. “TestBalloon: Kotlin testing is easier (and more fun) than you think. Oliver Okrongli, Bernd Prünster” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 22s

3. “Concurrency Patterns for Modern High Performance Kotlin Servers | Bowen Feng” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 53s

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Python

1. “Understanding is the new bottleneck — Geoffrey Litt, Notion” from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +35k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 33s

React

1. “Reactor Under the Hood: Building a Graph-Based Saga Orchestrator in Elixir, James Harton | Code BEAM” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 06s

2. “Next.js Is Changing Navigation Again - To Fix The Click Delay (16.3) | Aurora Scharff” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 07s

Security

1. “Architectural Patterns for Spring Security You Wish Your Tech Lead Knew @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 45s

2. “Claws Out: Securing and Building with OpenClaw - Nick Taylor, Pomerium” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jul 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 12s

Software Architecture

1. “Architectural Patterns for Spring Security You Wish Your Tech Lead Knew @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 45s

2. “The Green Shift: Transitioning .NET Services Across Architectures • Sara Bergman • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jul 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 46s

3. “Inside Spring: The Architecture Behind the Framework | Ko Turk (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 42s

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Web / Frontend

1. “Reactor Under the Hood: Building a Graph-Based Saga Orchestrator in Elixir, James Harton | Code BEAM” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 06s

2. “Next.js Is Changing Navigation Again - To Fix The Click Delay (16.3) | Aurora Scharff” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 07s

3. “How Fast is Fast Enough? - Tammy Everts - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 59s

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🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “Let’s build an AI agent - Phil Nash - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026

Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 6, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 59s

tldw: Phil Nash, developer relations engineer at IBM, shows how LLMs, functions and open source tools fit together to bring an agent to life, starting simple then moving to a multi-agent model where different components manage and perform tasks. You will leave with a clear idea of what you need to start building your own powerful agents. Highly recommended!

2. “Completing the Rewrite from Hell: Five Years of Technical Debt and How We Escaped - Aaron Stannard” from NDC Copenhagen 2026

Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 55s

tldw: Bad architecture decisions don’t just slow you down. They destroy business value: poor coupling blocks the features customers want and data model mistakes leave you without answers to your own questions. Aaron Stannard, founder of Petabridge and creator of Akka.NET, tells the story of the rewrite he had full authority to prioritize yet still couldn’t finish for five years while money walked out the door. He shares why he abandoned a full rewrite for strategic refactoring, how the actor model could have prevented the mess and how AI accelerated the work *without* vibe coding.

3. “Building a real-time collaborative editor - Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jul 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 59m 43s

tldw: Have you ever wondered what it takes to build something like Google Docs, then add extra layers of security on top? Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman, senior software architect at Systematic and Oracle ACE Associate, walks through an embedded solution for real-time collaborative editing built for military operation planning, where multiple users update the same documents at once under strict security requirements. She explains the advanced operational transformation algorithms behind it and the performance, security and quality challenges her team had to overcome along the way.

4. “How Kubernetes Networking Really Works: A Packet’s Journey Across... Ashwin Sriram & M Viswanath Sai” from Open Source Summit India 2026

Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 40s

tldw: Every time one Pod talks to another in Kubernetes, the Linux kernel does a surprising amount of work. Ashwin Sriram, software engineer at Deutsche Bank and a Prometheus Operator maintainer, traces a real packet across a live cluster to show exactly how traffic moves between Pods and nodes using network namespaces, veth pairs, bridges, routing tables or packet filtering rules. Through live demos you will build a practical mental model for explaining, observing and debugging Pod-to-Pod traffic.

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5. “The Creator of Pandas on AI, Apache Arrow, and the Future of Software Engineering” from Data Engineering Central Podcast

Podcast ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 12s

tldl: Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, joins the Data Engineering Central Podcast for a conversation on how modern data engineering came to exist and where AI is taking software development. He traces his path from building GoldenEye fan sites as a teenager to writing Pandas at a quantitative hedge fund and launching Apache Arrow, touching on DuckDB, DataFusion, Parquet, Spark and the shift from Hadoop to lakehouses. He also explains why large language models make experienced engineers more productive without replacing them, why architecture and good taste now matter more than individual lines of code and why projects like Arrow remain so hard to recreate with AI alone.

Data Engineering Central

The Creator of Pandas on AI, Apache Arrow, and the Future of Software Engineering

The creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, Wes McKinney, joins the Data Engineering Central Podcast for an in-depth conversation about how modern data engineering came to exist, where AI is taking software development, and why good engineering still matters more than ever…

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6. “1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem” from Syntax

Podcast ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 20s

tldl: This episode discusses the pains of AI-assisted development, from the struggle of reviewing thousands of lines of agent-generated code to the technical debt that piles up when teams merge PRs without meaningful human review. Scott Tolinski and Wes Bos also get into local models, whether jujutsu really beats git, how freelancers should price their work in the AI era and how to get your team on board with external libraries.

https://syntax.fm/1019

7. “1017, We need to stop calling it “AI”” from Syntax

Podcast ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 56m 44s

tldl: Scott Tolinski and Wes Bos raid the listener mailbag to settle the pnpm versus npm debate, decode how web standards quietly make their way into your browser and ask the big one: is “AI” actually intelligent or just fancy autocomplete? Along the way they hit Stack Overflow nostalgia, the Shadcn head-scratcher and why big design systems are sleeping on modern HTML.

https://syntax.fm/1017

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AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026 (25), CascadiaJS 2026 (6), CityJS Singapore 2026 (3), Code BEAM Europe 2025 (3), Devoxx Poland 2024 (1), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1), GopherConAU 2024 (1), InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 (2), JCON EUROPE 2026 (6), KotlinConf 2025 (7), KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 (72), NDC AI 2026 (8), NDC Copenhagen 2026 (12), Open Source Summit India 2026 (89), Open Source Summit North America 2025 (1), PyCon US 2026 (44), PyData Prague 2026 (1), PyData Yerevan 2026 (1), React Summit 2026 (1), Spring I/O 2026 (1), YOW! 2025 (1), ng-conf 2025 (1), performance.now() 2025 (2)

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🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

This issue’s talks and podcasts, sorted by view count and organized by topic.

AI Engineering

1. “Field Guide to Fable — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +38k views ⸱ Jul 6, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 28s

2. “WF2026: Autoresearch & Keynotes ft. Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Amazon AGI, Sonar, Arena, Recursive” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +14k views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 08h 51m 56s

3. “WF26: Harness Engineering & Startup Battlefield ft. Garry Tan, Mike Krieger, @t3dotgg , DSPy” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +13k views ⸱ Jul 3, 2026 ⸱ 09h 11m 15s

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Angular

1. “No Zone, No Problem - Building Angular Apps without Zone.js | Brygida Fiejdasz | ng-conf 2025” from ng-conf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 50s

BEAM

1. “MoodBot: Raising a Tiny Robot with Elixir, Nerves, and AI - Carsten Rösnick-Neugebauer | Code BEAM” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 6, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 23s

2. “Formally Based Tools for Safer Erlang - Péter Bereczky, Dániel Horpácsi | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 28s

3. “From Freakout to Fix: Navigating a Security Disaster - Jonatan Männchen | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 11s

C# / .NET

1. “.NET Testing Techniques You Didn’t Know You Needed - Dante De Ruwe - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 44s

Data Engineering

1. “Marcela Brichtová Piptová - Getting reliable text when PDFs lie and OCR fails (PyData Prague #35)” from PyData Prague 2026
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 47s

2. “Ara Yeroyan - Building a Visual RAG System and Scaling it with Spatial Pooling” from PyData Yerevan 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 6, 2026 ⸱ 01h 02m 59s

3. “Run Your Own AI Cluster on a DGX Spark: Kubernetes, GPUs, and DRA - Janakiram MSV & Shreyas Mocherla” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 33s

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Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “Marcela Brichtová Piptová - Getting reliable text when PDFs lie and OCR fails (PyData Prague #35)” from PyData Prague 2026
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 47s

2. “High Performance LLM Inference in Pure Python with PyTorch Custom Ops - Yineng Zhang” from PyCon US 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 26s

3. “Ara Yeroyan - Building a Visual RAG System and Scaling it with Spatial Pooling” from PyData Yerevan 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 6, 2026 ⸱ 01h 02m 59s

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DevOps

1. “I Break Things, AI Fixes Them: Building a Self-Healing CI/CD Pipeline - Premved Dhote, Red Hat” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 26s

2. “CI/CD, APIs, and Scaling: What Every Cloud Native Developer Needs To Kn... Aditya Soni & Aditi Gupta” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 40s

3. “Keep AI on Track: Guardrails + OpenTelemetry Observability - Prabal Rakshit, Infosys Technologies” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 18s

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Django

1. “No More Spreadsheets! Building PyLadiesCon Infrastructure with Python and Django - Mariatta” from PyCon US 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 00s

Elixir

1. “MoodBot: Raising a Tiny Robot with Elixir, Nerves, and AI - Carsten Rösnick-Neugebauer | Code BEAM” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 6, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 23s

Java

1. “SIMD Vectors in the HotSpot JVM - Auto Vectorization and the Vector API”
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 06s

2. “Hybrid Modernization: Combining OpenRewrite’s Precision with LLM Intelligence for Spring @ Spring IO” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 23s

3. “Petabyte-Scale AI Memory with Serverless Java | Markus Kett (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 44s

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Kotlin

1. “Sony’s KMP Journey: Scaling BLE & Hardware with Kotlin Multiplatform | Sergio Carrilho” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 41s

2. “Bootiful Kotlin | Josh Long” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jul 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 00s

3. “A First Look at the Kotlin Ecosystem Plugin for Declarative Gradle | Marcin Mycek” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 44s

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Kubernetes

1. “Trust, but Sandbox: Securing AI Agents in Kubernetes - Sudhanshu Prajapati & Prateek Mishra” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 27s

2. “KubeEdge DeepDive: Extending Kubernetes To the Edge With Real-World Industry Use Case - Ronak Raj” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 34s

3. “How Kubernetes Networking Really Works: A Packet’s Journey Across... Ashwin Sriram & M Viswanath Sai” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 40s

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Leadership

1. “Keynote: From Consumption to Global Leadership - Open Source Summit - Arpit Joshipura” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 55s

Misc

1. “Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +20k views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 18s

2. “What’s New in Compose Multiplatform | Sebastian Aigner and Márton Braun” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 28s

3. “Stop writing software like it’s 1999! - Hannes Lowette - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Jul 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 57m 28s

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Mobile

1. “Sony’s KMP Journey: Scaling BLE & Hardware with Kotlin Multiplatform | Sergio Carrilho” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 41s

2. “Bootiful Kotlin | Josh Long” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jul 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 00s

3. “A First Look at the Kotlin Ecosystem Plugin for Declarative Gradle | Marcin Mycek” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 44s

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Python

1. “Rust for CPython: Making Python Safer and More Robust for Everyone - Emma Smith” from PyCon US 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 30s

2. “Tachyon: Python 3.15’s sampling profiler is faster...- Pablo Galindo Salgado, Laszlo Kiss Kollar” from PyCon US 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 15s

3. “High Performance LLM Inference in Pure Python with PyTorch Custom Ops - Yineng Zhang” from PyCon US 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 26s

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React

1. “Next.js Is Changing Navigation Again - To Fix The Click Delay (16.3) | Aurora Scharff” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 07s

2. “Observability 2.0: Shifting Left From Reactive Mon... Kokilavani K, RK Gupta, Sivakumar K & Suresh K” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 40s

3. “Event-Driven Platform Engineering: From Reactive Ops To... Josephine Eskaline Joyce & Prashanth Bhat” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 56s

Ruby / Rails

1. “Keep AI on Track: Guardrails + OpenTelemetry Observability - Prabal Rakshit, Infosys Technologies” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 18s

Rust

1. “Rust for CPython: Making Python Safer and More Robust for Everyone - Emma Smith” from PyCon US 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 30s

2. “Busy Developer’s Guide to Rust • Ted Neward • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 18s

3. “Why you, as a Python developer, should learn Rust - Daniel Szoke” from PyCon US 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 32s

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Security

1. “Trust, but Sandbox: Securing AI Agents in Kubernetes - Sudhanshu Prajapati & Prateek Mishra” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 27s

2. “Security: Why It _has_to Be Open Source - Mike Bursell, Confidential Computing” from Open Source Summit India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 23s

3. “No More Secrets With Keycloak’s Federated Client Authentication - Rishabh Singh, Red Hat” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 12s

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Software Architecture

1. “Why Prompting Isn’t Enough: Building Stateful AI Architecture” from InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jul 6, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 36s

2. “Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural... Vasu Chandrasekhara & Stefan Schimanski” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 43s

3. “Unity in Diversity: Architecting “Shared-Fir... Manoj K R, Siddiq Tanveer M A, Rishi D, & Geethika C” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 52s

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Web / Frontend

1. “Choosing the Wrong Abstraction (And What It Cost Us)” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jul 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 52s

2. “Shared Components Beyond the Design System” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 23s

3. “LoAF - Andy Davies - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 01s

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Web Assembly

1. “Ready, Set, Go: WASM-Powered Containers Taking Your AI To New He... Anshika Tiwari & Abhineet Saxena” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 14s

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Happy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #111!

Last week, Tech Talks Weekly passed 10,000 readers are more exciting updates coming up, so stay tuned!

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🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “We built a P2P app with no servers. 1M users didn’t miss them | David Mark Clements, Tether” from JSNation 2026

Conference ⸱ +16k views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 46s

tldw: What if your app never needed a server? David Mark Clements, original author of Node Cookbook, shows how his team built a production P2P app from scratch with no cloud, no infrastructure and no vendor lock-in, and how it passed a million users.

2. “KotlinConf’26 Keynote” from KotlinConf 2026

Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 21s

tldw: The KotlinConf 2026 keynote from the JetBrains team opens by celebrating just how far Kotlin now reaches, from paying for coffee to boarding a train to filing your taxes. It presents where the language, its tooling and its ecosystem are heading next: syntax that keeps Kotlin fast to read and review whether a change came from a colleague or an AI agent, first-class support for agentic AI development, and Kotlin running everywhere from data-center backends to the phones.

3. “Platforms: Build Abstractions, not Illusions • Gregor Hohpe • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 09s

tldw: The tech we use today is amazing, yet it can also be complex, so it is natural for teams to build platforms that hide that complexity to improve productivity, avoid mistakes and reduce cognitive load. But hiding ever more complexity does not make a better platform: it can create dangerous illusions. Gregor Hohpe, author of Platform Strategy and The Software Architect Elevator, reflects on two decades of building complex distributed systems and shows where abstractions helped and where illusions led to major problems.

4. “Modern UI Patterns - Una Kravets - CSS Day 2026” from CSS Day 2026

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 41s

tldw: Modern CSS gives us so many powerful new tools to build robust, dynamic interfaces, and now it is time to put those capabilities into context. When it is easier than ever to build robust web experiences, what exactly should you be building, and how do you tell what makes a good user experience? Una Kravets, who leads the UI and Tooling developer relations team at Google Chrome and co-hosts The CSS Podcast, presents the newest updates in CSS and web UI and offers a UX framework of five principles for framing design decisions through the lens of modern UI patterns.

5. “The Power of quiet engineers • Tomasz Manugiewicz • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 52s

tldw: Stephen Hawking used to say that quiet people have the loudest minds. Tomasz Manugiewicz, an Agile coach and university lecturer, agrees and argues that the impact of quiet engineers is immeasurable. Together he reflects on the strategies for making our introversion shine.

6. “Keep the Main Thread Free With Web Workers” from CascadiaJS 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 53s

tldw: When heavy compute runs on the main thread, the UI becomes sluggish. Courtney Yatteau, a developer advocate at Esri, shows how to spot main-thread blocking, then move filtering and aggregation work into Web Workers with a clean message protocol, debouncing, progress updates and cancellation so the UI stays smooth.

7. “Effective Data Modeling for Document Databases // Anna Henningsen” from CityJS London 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 30s

tldw: Starting from the basic concepts of the document model, Anna Henningsen, a longtime Node.js core contributor, walks through best practices for designing data models and schemas for document databases and how to fit them into real-world developer workflows. She then showcases the modern extensions and advanced features MongoDB provides.

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8. “1017, We need to stop calling it “AI”” from Syntax

Podcast ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 56m 44s

tldl: Syntax hosts Scott Tolinski and Wes Bos raid the listener mailbag to settle the pnpm versus npm debate, decode how web standards quietly make their way into your browser and ask the big one: is “AI” actually intelligent or just fancy autocomplete? Along the way they hit Stack Overflow nostalgia, the Shadcn head-scratcher and why big design systems are sleeping on modern HTML.

https://syntax.fm/1017

9. “The AI Productivity Paradox: Why 10X Output Doesn’t Mean 10X Business Outcome” from Tech Lead Journal

Podcast ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 05m 39s

tldl: What if optimizing for AI output is actually slowing your company down? When code becomes nearly free to produce, organizations that still measure productivity by output are solving the wrong problem. In this episode Mik Kersten, creator of the Flow Framework and author of Project to Product and the forthcoming Output to Outcome, explains why the real challenge of the AI era is not generating more code but building organizations that can turn that output into customer and business value. He introduces three models from the book: the outcome loop, the product operating model and the outcome tree and tackles why cutting headcount on AI productivity gains without outcome visibility is a dangerous bet.

📆 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.

AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026 (30), AWS Summit Washington DC 2026 (1), AgentConf 2026 (1), All Things Open 2025 (1), Berlin Buzzwords 2026 (1), Blastoff Rails 2026 (11), CSS Day 2026 (2), CascadiaJS 2026 (4), CityJS London 2026 (2), Code BEAM Europe 2025 (2), Devoxx Poland 2024 (3), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (2), Gleam Talks - Code BEAM Europe 2025 (1), GopherConAU 2024 (1), JCON EUROPE 2026 (4), JNation 2026 (1), JSNation 2026 (2), JavaOne 2026 (1), KotlinConf 2026 (2), NDC AI 2026 (10), QCon London 2026 (1), QCon San Francisco 2025 (1), React Summit 2026 (1), Smashing Meets Sustainability 2026 (4), Spring I/O 2026 (1), StrimziCon 2026 (7), YOW! 2025 (1), ng-conf 2025 (1), performance.now() 2025 (1)

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🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

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AI Engineering

1. “Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +25k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 43s

2. “Turn 10,994 Notes Into Memory - Paul Iusztin, Decoding AI & Louis-François Bouchard, Towards AI” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +11k views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 32s

3. “The Future Is Domain-Specific Agents - Justin Schroeder, StandardAgents” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 38s

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AWS

1. “Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows - Erik Hanchett, AWS” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 47s

2. “AWS Summit Washington DC 2026 - Keynote | Amazon Web Services” from AWS Summit Washington DC 2026
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 01h 31m 26s

3. “Transform prior authorization workflows with generative AI on AWS”
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jun 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 32s

Angular

1. “12. Angular and THREE.js – An Actual Match Made in Heaven | Chau Tran | ng-conf 2025” from ng-conf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 10s

BEAM

1. “Erlang Just Got a New Debugger - Daniel Gorin | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 38s

2. “Jumping on the Bandwagon: How I ended up writing Gleam for a living - Isaac Harris-Holt | Code BEAM” from Gleam Talks - Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 35s

3. “Why we killed Riak Search, and what we’re doing instead - Nicholas Adams | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 05s

C++

1. “Inside C++’s Biggest Challenge | Panel Discussion with Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter & More”
   Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Jun 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 37s

Data Engineering

1. “PyData Chicago Meetup: June 18, 2026”
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 57m 58s

2. “PyData Madrid June Meet-Up”
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 12m 05s

3. “Swapping the Engine Mid-Flight: How We Moved Reddit’s Petabyte Scale Kafka Fleet to ... | S. Kistler” from StrimziCon 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 21s

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Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “PyData Chicago Meetup: June 18, 2026”
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 57m 58s

2. “PyData Madrid June Meet-Up”
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 12m 05s

Databases

1. “AI System Design: From Idea to Production - Apoorva Joshi, MongoDB” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 53s

2. “Effective Data Modeling for Document Databases // Anna Henningsen” from CityJS London 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 30s

DevOps

1. “Bypassing the Multimodal Tax: Hybrid RAG, SQL RRF & UI Telemetry - Abed Matini, Ogilvy” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 48s

Java

1. “ZGC: A Decade of Redefining Java Performance” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 41s

2. “The Spring AI Ecosystem in 2026: From Foundations to Agents @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 39s

3. “JSpecify: Getting Rid of the Billion-Dollar Mistake in Java for Good This Time | Michael Simons (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 58s

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Kotlin

1. “KotlinConf’26 Keynote” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 21s

2. “Evolving Kotlin Language Defaults | Michail Zarečenskij” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 03s

Kubernetes

1. “Building Strimzi MCP Server for Kubernetes: Democratizing Platform Exper... | D. Kornel, J. Stejskal” from StrimziCon 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 54s

2. “GopherConAU 2024 - Miguel Elias - Kubernetes Operators with Go” from GopherConAU 2024
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 40s

Misc

1. “We built a P2P app with no servers. 1M users didn’t miss them | David Mark Clements, Tether” from JSNation 2026
   Conference ⸱ +16k views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 46s

2. “Making Teaching Code Less Academic and More Market-Ready - Peter Ruppel” from AgentConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 23s

3. “Platforms: Build Abstractions, not Illusions • Gregor Hohpe • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 09s

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Mobile

1. “KotlinConf’26 Keynote” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 21s

2. “Evolving Kotlin Language Defaults | Michail Zarečenskij” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 03s

React

1. “I Ship a Production App With No Backend – This Is the Architecture | Mikkel Malmberg, Tether” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 15s

2. “AI Helped Me Learn: Vue Through the Lens of a React Developer” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 16s

Ruby / Rails

1. “Blastoff Rails 2026 - Keynote: Startups on Rails by Irina Nazarova” from Blastoff Rails 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jun 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 49s

2. “Blastoff Rails 2026 - Keynote: Building Cora Solo by Kieran Klaassen” from Blastoff Rails 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 35s

3. “Blastoff Rails 2026 - Don’t Read the Code: Trusting AI With Your Rails Codebased by Avi Flombaum” from Blastoff Rails 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 19s

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Rust

1. “Busy Developer’s Guide to Rust • Ted Neward • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jul 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 18s

Security

1. “HitchHacker’s Guide to Building Secure Agents - Kenneth Yeung & Kasimir Schulz” from NDC AI 2026
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 48s

2. “Who Are You? Configuring Kafka Authentication in Strimzi from TLS to Custom Principals | D. Mulder” from StrimziCon 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 27s

Software Architecture

1. “AI System Design: From Idea to Production - Apoorva Joshi, MongoDB” from AI Engineer World’s Fair Online Track 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 53s

2. “I Ship a Production App With No Backend – This Is the Architecture | Mikkel Malmberg, Tether” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 15s

Vue

1. “AI Helped Me Learn: Vue Through the Lens of a React Developer” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 16s

Web / Frontend

1. “Modern UI Patterns - Una Kravets - CSS Day 2026” from CSS Day 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 41s

2. “I Ship a Production App With No Backend – This Is the Architecture | Mikkel Malmberg, Tether” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 15s

3. “Cranking View Transitions up to 11 - Bramus Van Damme - CSS Day 2026” from CSS Day 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 47s

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🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “AI: It AI-n’t What You Think! - Venkat Subramaniam - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026

Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 56m 03s

tldw: Innovations have transformed human lives in ways that make it hard to imagine how people managed before, yet we rarely embrace them readily and often we shouldn’t. Venkat Subramaniam, the Java legend, examines how our time is juxtaposed with yet another major innovation in our field. Is AI going to take over the world, our jobs or our way of life? This talk steps back from the daily social media AI hype and aims to see what is really going on.

2. “7 Ways You Can Build an Amazing Dev Career in the AI Era” from DevBcn 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 34s

tldw: Are we still relevant in the AI era? That is the question every developer is asking, and Bruno Souza (Java Champion) tackles it head on. Drawing on three decades of helping developers design amazing careers, he shares seven concrete ways to stay relevant, keep growing and thrive as a software engineer in the current era. It is a grounded, energizing take on building a career that lasts well beyond the AI hype.

3. “Victor Rentea — Top 10 Event-Driven Architecture Pitfalls” from DevBcn 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 50s

tldw: You send a message instead of an API call: what can possibly go wrong? Victor Rentea (Java Champion) takes you through the Event-Driven Adventure Park where every message is a rollercoaster ride. Hold tight through the wild loops of duplicate deliveries, out-of-order messages and race conditions, survive the dual-write drop, escape the consumer error maze and find the cure to poison pill messages. These are 10 real war stories collected from the 150 companies Victor has trained, a tour through the quirks and best practices of messaging systems.

4. “From CDC to Stream Analytics: Real-Time Data Patterns for Apache Iceberg and AI” from AWS Events

Podcast ⸱ Jun 24, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 01:00:50

tldl: Dive into real-time data patterns for Apache Iceberg with Ali Alemi, Streaming Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, and his colleague Francisco. They unpack the difference between append-only and CDC write patterns, explore the read-side challenges and show how Amazon S3 Tables eases the tension between frequent writes and analytical performance. They then present a live demo of a CDC pipeline built on Debezium, Kafka and Flink.

5. “Slow down to speed up: AI and software engineering” from The Pragmatic Engineer

Podcast ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:52:24

tldl: AI agents are writing code pretty much everywhere, and yet most teams and companies aren’t seeing those dramatic productivity gains. Or are they? In this keynote from Craft Conference in Budapest, Gergely Orosz from The Pragmatic Engineer, shows what AI is really doing to software engineering. He also shares practical advice on future-proofing your career.

6. “Biome and the Future of JavaScript Tooling” from Software Engineering Daily

Podcast ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 01h 02m 56s

tldl: Modern web development leans on an ever-growing collection of formatters, linters, bundlers and plugins, each with its own configuration, dependencies and performance cost. As applications grow more complex, maintaining that toolchain becomes a burden. Emanuele Stoppa, creator and lead maintainer of Biome and a systems engineer at Cloudflare, makes the case for Biome: a single open source toolchain that unifies formatting and linting for web projects, and points to where JavaScript tooling goes from here.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/06/18/biome-and-the-future-of-javascript-tooling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biome-and-the-future-of-javascript-tooling

📆 New talks

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AIE Europe 2026 (1), All Things Open 2025 (1), Blue RIdge Ruby 2026 (3), CascadiaJS 2026 (3), CityJS London 2026 (1), Code BEAM Europe 2025 (2), Conf42 LLMs 2026 (33), DevBcn 2026 (17), Devoxx Poland 2024 (3), Future Frontend 2026 (23), JCON EUROPE 2026 (4), JavaOne 2026 (2), LDX3 London 2026 (1), NDC Copenhagen 2026 (8), PyData London 2026 (1), QCon AI New York 2025 (1), QCon.ai Boston 2026 (13), React Summit 2026 (1), Seattle Rust User Group 2026 (3), Spring I/O 2026 (3), YOW! 2025 (1)

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AI Engineering

1. “Keynote: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next - Richard Campbell - 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +52k views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 59s

2. “The Production AI Playbook: Deploying Agents at Enterprise Scale — Sandipan Bhaumik, Databricks” from AIE Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +17k views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 06s

3. “10 tips to level up your ai-assisted coding - Aleksander Stensby - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 01h 01m 19s

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BEAM

1. “Elevating Phoenix with OpenRiak - Robert Carbone | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 00s

2. “The Roots of Resiliency - Meks McClure | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 43s

C# / .NET

1. “Let’s catch up with C#! Exciting new features in C# 9 to C# 14! - Filip Ekberg - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 18s

Data Engineering

1. “Nicolas Makaroff - AI Scientist - Hands-On with Tabular Foundation Models | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 19, 2026 ⸱ 01h 28m 23s

Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “Machines, Learning, and Machine Learning - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 01h 04m 19s

2. “Nicolas Makaroff - AI Scientist - Hands-On with Tabular Foundation Models | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 19, 2026 ⸱ 01h 28m 23s

Databases

1. “Automating Database Operations with Cortex Code | Tim Spann | Conf42 LLMs 2026” from Conf42 LLMs 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 00s

DevOps

1. “Open-Source Framework for AI-Powered CI/CD Pipelines | Denis Ermakov | Conf42 LLMs 2026” from Conf42 LLMs 2026
   Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 35s

2. “Is your multicloud pipeline compliant? DevOps vs GitOps” from All Things Open 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 04s

Java

1. “Better Tools for Immutable Data” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Jun 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 16s

2. “New in Spring Security 7: MFA, OAuth2 and more by Daniel Garnier @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 43s

3. “Bootiful gRPC by Josh Long & Dave Syer @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 48s

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Kubernetes

1. “Building Reliable Infrastructure for LLM Workloads on K8s | Sergey Speranskiy | Conf42 LLMs 2026” from Conf42 LLMs 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 58s

2. “Rachid Zarouali—How I Build a Cloud-Agnostic, Kubernetes-as-a-Service Platform 100% OSS in a Month” from DevBcn 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 33s

Leadership

1. “Shift to signal-driven software quality” from LDX3 London 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 32s

2. “Designing Leadership Growth in Tech Teams (When Developers Just Want to Code)” from Future Frontend 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 05s

3. “Anemari Fiser—400 tech leads, same problems—none of them technical” from DevBcn 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 20s

Misc

1. “Above the Cloud: Building Data Centers in Space - Richard Campbell - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +12k views ⸱ Jun 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 07s

2. “AI: It AI-n’t What You Think! - Venkat Subramaniam - NDC Copenhagen 2026” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 56m 03s

3. “Building Better Components - A Journey to a More Resilient Frontend - Daniel Yuschick” from NDC Copenhagen 2026
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 50s

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Mobile

1. “Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device | Mike Grabowski | React Summit 2026” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 46s

2. “FF26 – Building Resilience: Sustain the Maker - Georgios Diamantopoulos” from Future Frontend 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 49s

React

1. “Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device | Mike Grabowski | React Summit 2026” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 46s

Ruby / Rails

1. “Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 - 5 ways to invest in yourself for the long haul by Thomas Cannon” from Blue RIdge Ruby 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 56s

2. “Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 - Your First Open-Source Contribution by Rachael Wright Munn” from Blue RIdge Ruby 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 52s

3. “Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 - Optimize Your Mindset (Without Overclocking) by Christine Seeman” from Blue RIdge Ruby 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 24s

Rust

1. “JavaScript Won the Web, Rust Is Taking the Critical Path” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 52s

2. “Borrowing Beauty — by Jon Snelling — Seattle Rust User Group, June 2026” from Seattle Rust User Group 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 24, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 31s

3. “The Future of Version Control — by Conrad Irwin — Seattle Rust User Group, June 2026” from Seattle Rust User Group 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 24, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 44s

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Security

1. “New in Spring Security 7: MFA, OAuth2 and more by Daniel Garnier @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 43s

2. “Breaching LLM-Powered Applications: Overcoming Security and Privacy Challenges by Brian Vermeer” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Jun 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 40s

3. “Identity-Centric Security for AI Systems | Arunkumar Muthuramalingam | Conf42 LLMs 2026” from Conf42 LLMs 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 12s

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Software Architecture

1. “Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions • Andrew Harmel-Law • YOW! 2025” from YOW! 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 26s

2. “FF26 – Bringing a bit of architecture in your frontend application - Matthew Mamonov” from Future Frontend 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 29s

3. “Victor Rentea — Top 10 Event-Driven Architecture Pitfalls” from DevBcn 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 50s

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Swift

1. “FF26 – Building Resilience: Sustain the Maker - Georgios Diamantopoulos” from Future Frontend 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 49s

Web / Frontend

1. “The Rise of Agent Experience (AX)” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 48s

2. “The Last Mile Is Code” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 30s

3. “Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device | Mike Grabowski | React Summit 2026” from React Summit 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 46s

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1. “A Fun & Absurd Introduction to Vector Databases • Alexander Chatzizacharias • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025

Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 40s

tldw: Vector databases have become the go to choice for storing vectors and they pair naturally with LLMs, but they also shine as search engines whenever you want a natural language interface. Alexander Chatzizacharias, Software Engineer at JDriven, gives a fun and deliberately absurd introduction: he shows how to translate your data into vectors then master querying it across text search, image search and generative search, with live demos.

2. “Shopify Staff Engineer: Why Your Multi-Agent AI Architecture Will Fail” from QCon AI New York 2025

Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 29s

tldw: How does Shopify scale AI across thousands of employees without sliding into AI slop? Paulo Arruda, Staff Engineer at Shopify and creator of the Claude Swarm and SwarmSDK projects, shares failed experiments and architecture patterns behind orchestrating many LLM agents at Shopify scale. He explains how his teams cut operational workflows from 22 hours to 7 minutes by breaking massive prompts into lean narrow focused swarms, why treating agents as an agent microservices architecture revives every old networking and debugging nightmare and how an experimental adapter called llm-fuse makes model treat databases as a local file system.

3. “Functional Domain Modeling with Gleam - Eduardo Hernacki | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Gleam Talks - Code BEAM Europe 2025

Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 34s

tldw: This talk shows how Gleam’s powerful type system and functional paradigm excel at domain modeling inside Domain Driven Design. Eduardo Hernacki, the organizer of the Elixir and Erlang meetup in Munich, walks through Gleam by example: structs to represent data, union types to model choices and pure functions that mirror business workflows directly. He makes the case that Gleam’s syntax keeps domain logic self evident and approachable even for non programmers while still giving you the robustness and concurrency of the BEAM in production.

4. “Knock, knock. Race condition! Who’s there? — A Refactoring Story (Stefan Baumgartner at RustWeek)” from RustWeek 2026

Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 13s

tldw: Stefan Baumgartner, author of The TypeScript Cookbook and an organizer of Rust Linz, tells the story of a humble request to remove some nesting that turned into a nightmare: memory innocently shared across tasks, a supervision task that made everything worse and a race condition just waiting to bite. He applies refactoring techniques that improve structure, ownership and readability while making the real bug visible, then rediscovers proven async patterns that predate async Rust yet still hold up today.

5. “Crypto Trading: JVM Techniques Behind Bitvavo’s Microsecond Revolution | Oleg Lobanov & Marcos Maia” from JCON EUROPE 2026

Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 02s

tldw: Achieving single digit microsecond latencies in crypto trading is not just ambitious, it is a game changer. Oleg Lobanov and Marcos Maia, staff engineers at Bitvavo, the largest Euro denominated crypto exchange, explain how the company rebuilt its core exchange on the JVM as it matured from a startup into a mission critical platform. They share the techniques behind it: minimizing garbage collection, BigDecimal optimizations, object pooling, reliable UDP for inter process communication and high performance ring buffers and an in memory replication strategy with hot, warm and cold standby nodes for near zero downtime.

6. “Marco Gorelli - The Polars vs SQL differences nobody is talking about | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 02s

tldw: Polars has taken the data world by storm and people love to benchmark it against SQL style engines like DuckDB, PySpark and Daft, but what if we compared semantics instead of speed? Marco Gorelli, a core developer of Polars and pandas and the author of Narwhals, deliberately ignores performance and digs into the underappreciated semantic differences between the Polars and SQL: why Polars lets you subtract a column mean from a column when SQL will not, how filtering with window functions works, where Polars is more dangerous than SQL and why SQL reordered your rows when Polars did not. You will leave with stronger mental models for both and a few simple rules that make migrating between Polars and SQL painless.

8. “Go for Java Programmers • Barry Feigenbaum & Shon Saliga” from GOTO

Podcast ⸱ Jun 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 04s

tldl: In this GOTO Book Club conversation, Barry Feigenbaum, the IBM, Amazon and Dell veteran who defined the SMB protocol behind Windows file sharing and Samba, discusses his book Go for Java Programmers with IBM Storage Evangelist Shon Saliga. They walk through how developers already fluent in Java can pick up Google’s Go, where the two languages think alike and where Go’s take on concurrency, typing and tooling asks you to unlearn old habits.

https://gotopia.tech/episodes/444

9. “The Hidden Stories Sabotaging Your Culture Change” from Tech Lead Journal

Podcast ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 01h 08m 17s

tldl: Why do 70% of change efforts fail even when leadership is fully behind them? Ronica Roth, author of Practice Makes Culture and cofounder of The Welcome Elephant, argues the blocker is rarely strategy or resources: it is the hidden stories people quietly carry that stall every initiative. Drawing on 25 years of helping teams transform, she explains why culture declarations and vision speeches never work on their own, introduces the emotional, systems and room elephants that surface during change and shows how small daily practices build the psychological ownership that grand overhauls cannot.

10. “DHH: Basecamp 5, Vibe Coding, and the Future of Rails” from Ruby on Rails

Podcast ⸱ Jun 12, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:59:43

tldl: DHH explains why he reversed his write every character by hand stance and now treats taking AI seriously as a professional obligation, and how cheap experimentation, the freedom to git reset and try again, is changing 37signals. Along the way, they revisit why he still calls Ruby the most beautiful language he has ever seen, marvel at a backend so stable that a model file written today sits comfortably next to one from 2013 and preview what is next for Rails, from a Lexical based editor called Lexi headed into ActionText to native passkeys and magic links.

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.NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026 (8), AI Engineer Europe 2026 (8), API Conference London 2026 (1), AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026 (1), AWS Summit Mumbai 2026 (1), AWS at Hannover Messe 2026 (4), All Things Open 2025 (1), Berlin Buzzwords 2026 (17), Blue RIdge Ruby 2026 (6), CascadiaJS 2025 (15), CascadiaJS 2026 (1), Conference Talks 2026 (1), CozySummit Virtual 2026 (6), Devoxx Poland 2024 (3), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (2), Gleam Talks - Code BEAM Europe 2025 (8), JCON EUROPE 2026 (5), JNation 2026 (2), JavaOne 2026 (2), Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026 (4), PLDI 2026 (9), PyData London 2026 (55), PyData Prague 2026 (1), QCon AI New York 2025 (1), QCon San Francisco 2025 (1), RustWeek 2026 (53), SmashingConf Amsterdam 2026 (2), Spring I/O 2026 (4), TokioConf 2026 (10), YOW! 2025 (1), performance.now() 2025 (1)

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🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

This issue’s talks and podcasts, sorted by view count and organized by topic.

AI Engineering

1. “Stop Making Models Bigger, Make Them Behave — Kobie Crawford, Snorkel” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +29k views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 56s

2. “Your Attention Is the Bottleneck, Not Your Agents — Zack Proser, WorkOS” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +21k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 17s

3. “The agent-ready web: Simplify user actions with WebMCP — Tara Agyemang, Google” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 34s

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AWS

1. “From Shop Floor Control to Physical AI: Bridging Industrial Connectivity and Intelligent Automation” from AWS at Hannover Messe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 57m 27s

2. “AWS Summit Mumbai 2026 Keynote | AWS Events” from AWS Summit Mumbai 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 15s

3. “AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026: Innovators Edition Keynote | AWS Events” from AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 01h 09m 23s

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BEAM

1. “You don’t need an ORM - Giacomo Cavalieri | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Gleam Talks - Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 15s

2. “OTP and Gleam - Louis Pilfold | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Gleam Talks - Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 49s

3. “Adopting Gleam the Boring Way - Rebecca Reusch | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Gleam Talks - Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 05s

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C# / .NET

1. “.NET Day of Agentic Modernization 2026” from .NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026
   Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Jun 16, 2026 ⸱ 03h 53m 31s

2. “Modernize .NET Apps with GitHub Copilot” from .NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 13m 44s

3. “Stop Rewriting. Start with Aspire.” from .NET Day Agentic Modernization 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 50s

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Data Engineering

1. “Chris Fonnesbeck - Flexible Statistical Modeling | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 01h 26m 51s

2. “Gabriela Kadlecová - Training Small Language Models with Knowledge Distillation (PyData Prague #34)” from PyData Prague 2026
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jun 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 46s

3. “Keynote-Martin O’Reilly - LLMs and AI agents demystified | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 23s

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Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “Chris Fonnesbeck - Flexible Statistical Modeling | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 01h 26m 51s

2. “Gabriela Kadlecová - Training Small Language Models with Knowledge Distillation (PyData Prague #34)” from PyData Prague 2026
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jun 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 46s

3. “Keynote-Martin O’Reilly - LLMs and AI agents demystified | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 23s

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Databases

1. “A Fun & Absurd Introduction to Vector Databases • Alexander Chatzizacharias • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 40s

2. “Crintea - Making Databases LLM-Ready Building Semantic Layers with Semantido | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 01h 27m 41s

3. “Context Engineering with Redis and LangChain (Workshop)” from Conference Talks 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 56s

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DevOps

1. “Racing with Rust: building telemetry tools for racing simulators (Harry van Haaren at RustWeek)” from RustWeek 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 04s

2. “Observability Now! Building a Case for Hybrid Instrumentation” from CascadiaJS 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 03s

Java

1. “Do You Really Need Hibernate?” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 58s

2. “Domain-centric? Why Hexagonal- and Onion-Architecture are answers to the wrong question @ Spring I/O” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 16s

3. “How Agentic Coding Can Help You Migrate Java Applications Faster” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 34s

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Kubernetes

1. “Treating Kubernetes as a Linux Distro: APT-Style Packaging with FluxCD | Andrei Kvapil, CEO, AENIX” from CozySummit Virtual 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 32s

2. “Icinga open source monitoring: Rules, scale, and Kubernetes in one stack” from All Things Open 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 48s

Misc

1. “Untrusted data in Linux — How Rust is going to save us (Greg Kroah-Hartman at RustWeek)” from RustWeek 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 24s

2. “Stas Don – Detecting Hidden Bias in Datasets Before Models Fail #bbuzz” from Berlin Buzzwords 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 57s

3. “[PLDI 2026] Meadows CD - EGRAPHS (Jun 15th)” from PLDI 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 08h 41m 40s

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Python

1. “Your Attention Is the Bottleneck, Not Your Agents — Zack Proser, WorkOS” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +21k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 17s

2. “How Jupyter AI Brings Agentic Workflows Into Notebooks | Lahari Chowtorri, Amazon” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 02s

3. “Arthur Andres- Kafka Streaming, the Pythonic Way | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 44s

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Ruby / Rails

1. “Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 - State is the First Decision You Never Made by Joël Quenneville” from Blue RIdge Ruby 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 14s

2. “Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 - Learning from Permaculture: Sustainable Software Development by John Athayde” from Blue RIdge Ruby 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 33s

3. “Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 - Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation by Ifat Ribon” from Blue RIdge Ruby 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 01s

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Rust

1. “FFI in Miri at 8000 segfaults per second (Nia Deckers at RustWeek)” from RustWeek 2026
   Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 40s

2. “Common Pitfalls of Rewriting Things In Rust (Cliff L. Biffle at RustWeek)” from RustWeek 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 28s

3. “When Iterators Aren’t Zero Cost (Xavier Dennis at RustWeek)” from RustWeek 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 38s

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Security

1. “Cloud, Containers & Security • Adrian Mouat, Kief Morris & Sam Newman • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 41s

2. “Why Open Source Security Can’t Wait: AI Risks Are Already Here | Hilary Carter, Linux Foundation” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 24s

3. “Rust for Secure and Sustainable Smart Metering (Ron van der Pols at RustWeek)” from RustWeek 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 30s

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Software Architecture

1. “Domain-centric? Why Hexagonal- and Onion-Architecture are answers to the wrong question @ Spring I/O” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 16s

2. “Shopify Staff Engineer: Why Your Multi-Agent AI Architecture Will Fail” from QCon AI New York 2025
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 29s

3. “The Real DDD: Delusion-Driven Development • Mateusz Trawiński • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 18s

Web / Frontend

1. “Gleam + TypeScript: Full-Stack Type Safety with Inertia-Wisp - Michael Buhot | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Gleam Talks - Code BEAM Europe 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 20s

2. “Accessibility and Performance - Marcy Sutton Todd - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 09s

3. “It’s Time To Rethink Everything by @t3dotgg” from CascadiaJS 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 59s

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Web Assembly

1. “Debunking Rust Wasm Performance Myths (Andrew Jakubowicz & Taj Pereira at RustWeek)” from RustWeek 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 26s

2. “Ian Thomas - JupyterLite: run all your code in a web browser using WebAssembly | Pydata London 26” from PyData London 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 09s

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1. “Beyond Components: Designing Generative UI for MCP Apps — Ruben Casas, Postman” from AI Engineer Europe 2026

Conference ⸱ +52k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 58s

tldw: Ruben Casas, a frontend engineer at Postman, once prompted a model to rewrite his blog and watched it build a search box with a blur animation and accessibility baked in, without being asked. That was the moment he decided models write better frontend code than he does, which raises his central question: if the models are this capable, why are most agent UIs still wiring up static prebuilt components? He maps the spectrum from static components through declarative UI, where the LLM emits JSON or YAML that a rendering engine turns into components at runtime, to fully generative UI where the model writes HTML, CSS and JavaScript on demand inside a sandbox.

2. “Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting” from Keynotes @ Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

Conference ⸱ +18k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 54s

tldw: In this fireside keynote from Open Source Summit North America 2026, Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git, sits down with Dirk Hohndel for their now traditional unscripted conversation. They range across the latest 7.1-rc4 kernel release, Torvalds’ enthusiasm for 3D printing and OpenSCAD, the open source guitar effects pedal he built and his still complicated relationship with AI tooling. If you want the candid, off the cuff Linus rather than a polished tech talk, this is the one to watch.

3. “#JavaNext Language Features” from JavaOne 2026

Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 36s

tldw: The Java language is evolving fast. In this JavaOne 2026 session, Dan Smith, a language architect at Oracle who has shaped the Java specification since the lambda expressions of Java 8, walks through many of the recent additions to the language and looks ahead to the directions and features still in development across projects like Amber and Valhalla. If you want a clear, authoritative map of where Java is heading next, watch this one.

4. “Crafting Great APIs with Domain-Driven Design by Fabrizio Lazzaretti @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 31s

tldw: Most APIs fail not because of technical shortcomings but because they do not reflect the business domain they are meant to serve, leaving you with generic CRUD endpoints that leak implementation details and crumble when requirements change. Fabrizio Lazzaretti, managing consultant at Wavestone and co-author of a book by the same name, shows that applying Domain-Driven Design to API design takes more than naming conventions: it needs a collaborative method that bridges business stakeholders and technical implementation. He walks the full journey from Domain Stories and a shared Ubiquitous Language through the API Product Canvas to a finished OpenAPI or AsyncAPI specification, accelerated by LLMs.

5. “The Architect’s Guide to the AI Era • Luca Mezzalira & Teena Idnani • GOTO 2026” from GOTO 2026

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 35s

tldw: In this GOTO Unscripted conversation, Luca Mezzalira, author of Building Micro-Frontends, and Teena Idnani, senior solutions architect at Microsoft, argue that AI accelerates many of the tasks architects do while leaving the fundamentals untouched and more important than ever. They get specific about the real risk, which is not that AI replaces architects but that AI generated code can look convincingly correct and pass initial testing while hiding edge case failures that only surface under load, audit or upstream change. Their answer is harness engineering, pairing linters, static analysis and deterministic guardrails with AI assistants, plus treating empathy as a core technical skill: the architect’s job is riding the elevator between the engine room and the C-suite. Watch for Luca’s claim that the work has shifted from 70 percent people and context to nearly 90 percent, because the edge is knowing which problems are worth solving and why.

7. “Event-driven systems without pulling your hair out • Andrzej Ludwikowski • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024

Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 48s

tldw: The level of abstraction in our work keeps rising: we left assembly and C behind, and the era of bootstrapping servers gave way to managed cloud databases, event buses and container orchestrators. Andrzej Ludwikowski, software architect at SoftwareMill, asks what comes next and makes the case for climbing one level higher with Kalix, a PaaS from Lightbend where you write your domain code with built-in components and let the platform handle infrastructure, persistence, scaling, security and observability. Because the whole model is event-driven, with CQRS and Event Sourcing as its foundations, you get to focus on the domain instead of solving the same technical puzzles over and over.

8. “You might not need JS - Cyd Stumpel | JSHeroes 2026” from JSHeroes 2026

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 49s

tldw: Motion on the web has come full circle, from simple CSS animations and transitions to JavaScript libraries and now back to CSS again. Cyd Stumpel, an award winning creative developer who builds accessible sites for the likes of WeTransfer and Amnesty International, explores how the View Transitions API and Scroll-Driven Animations are reshaping creative development today.

9. “TokioConf 2026 - Building a Production Control Plane with Tokio by Pooja Kale” from TokioConf 2026

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 05s

tldw: When AWS built Aurora DSQL, its Postgres compatible serverless database, the entire system was written in Rust with Tokio as the async runtime under its control plane. Pooja Kale, a software engineer on the Aurora DSQL team, takes you inside how that control plane, the brain that turns user intents into correctly orchestrated scaling across a multi-tenant fleet, was built on Tokio without drowning in hundreds of concurrent API calls and database connections. She digs into the intent execution system and its bounded concurrency, the async patterns the team adopted such as combining the actor model with JoinSet and select!, and how they kept a predictable execution model under strict performance constraints.

10. “RAG in production: challenges, techniques and solutions | Alejandro Duarte | Conf42 DBDevOps 2026” from Conf42 DBDevOps 2026

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 43s

tldw: Retrieval Augmented Generation is easy to demo and hard to ship. Alejandro Duarte, developer relations engineer at MariaDB, walks through what it actually takes to move RAG from a hello world example to production, starting with the two-phase pipeline and the parts everyone underestimates: chunking and overlap, ingestion pitfalls and the tradeoffs between vector, keyword and hybrid search. From there he builds up from naive to modular RAG with cross-encoder reranking, a proper generation module and orchestration that scales, then grounds it all in a live demo.

11. “Extreme Modelling Patterns • Alberto Brandolini • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 46s

tldw: Who better to talk modelling than the person who invented EventStorming? Alberto Brandolini, creator of EventStorming and founder of Avanscoperta, shares hard won lessons from modelling in a CQRS and Event Sourcing environment. He ranges from the evergreen heuristics for finding aggregate boundaries to layered state machines and ways to visualize behaviour across bounded contexts.

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12. “Creator of Meta’s Hack: Your AI Will Always Cheat — Here’s How to Stop It” from Tech Lead Journal

Podcast ⸱ Jun 8, 2026 ⸱ 01h 18m 17s

tldl: What if your AI coding agent is quietly cheating on your tests, and how would you even stop it? Julien Verlaguet, creator of Meta’s Hack language and now founder of SkipLabs, argues that agents will always try to game tests, silently change logic or declare a job done when it is not, and he draws a sharp parallel to the years he spent convincing engineers to trust a new type checker while migrating tens of millions of lines of PHP. He tells the story of an LLM that swapped a union for an intersection while splitting a file, a subtle bug that passed every test and that no human would have made, then makes the case for spec-driven development where one AI verifies correctness and the code-writing agent is locked out of touching the tests. Listen for how his agent Skipper turns a single spec into validated, runnable TypeScript, and for his grounded view that the developer role is shifting toward design and oversight rather than disappearing.

13. “Netflix Engineering Director: Why Code Scales Systems, But Clarity Scales Orgs” from InfoQ

Podcast ⸱ Jun 8, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:45:39

tldl: The hardest problems engineers face are rarely about systems, they are about people. In this InfoQ session Kasia Trapszo, an engineering leader at Netflix, makes the case that a senior engineer’s real leverage is not lines of code but clarity, trust and alignment. She works through concrete moments, from a junior mistake that flooded Netflix’s CTO to two teams who were both correct yet building systems that disagreed, and shows how structural alignment lets you scale your impact without drowning in meetings. Watch for her practical takes on beating imposter syndrome in massive codebases, running a design review that actually teaches and using GenAI for lightweight architecture decision records.

14. “Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower” from The Pragmatic Engineer

Podcast ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 02:52:11

tldl: Kelsey Hightower went from a self-taught technician installing DSL modems to one of Google’s elite Distinguished Engineers, influential enough that Microsoft’s CEO tried to recruit him personally. In this long, wide-ranging Pragmatic Engineer conversation he retraces three decades in the industry: his unconventional path in, the entrepreneurial years, building a reputation through open source, the rise of containers and Kubernetes and his front-row seat at Google during a defining era for cloud computing. He also explains what made him slow down after years of acceleration and shares a refreshingly grounded, people-first take on AI. The thread running through all of it is simple: technology is about solving meaningful human problems, not building tech for its own sake.

📆 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.

AI Engineer Europe 2026 (21), All Things Open 2025 (1), Berlin Buzzwords 2026 (59), CascadiaJS 2025 (14), CityJS London 2026 (2), Conf42 DBDevOps 2026 (25), CozySummit Virtual 2026 (6), CppCon 2025 (1), Devoxx Poland 2024 (4), GOTO 2026 (1), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (2), JCON EUROPE 2026 (4), JSHeroes 2026 (16), JavaOne 2026 (2), Keynotes @ Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026 (4), KotlinConf 2026 (1), Linux Security Summit North America 2026 (11), Observability Summit North America 2026 (42), Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026 (201), Open Source Summit North America 2026 (2), QCon San Francisco 2025 (1), SmashingConf Amsterdam 2026 (1), Spring I/O 2026 (4), TokioConf 2026 (9), YOW! 2025 (2), performance.now() 2025 (2)

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🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

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AI Engineering

1. “Beyond Components: Designing Generative UI for MCP Apps — Ruben Casas, Postman” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +52k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 58s

2. “BDD, ADR, PRD, WTF: Capturing Decisions for Humans and AI Alike — Michal Cichra, Safe Intelligence” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +23k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 49s

3. “Text Diffusion — Brendan O’Donoghue, Google DeepMind” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +19k views ⸱ Jun 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 03s

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AWS

1. “How Valkey Uses AI Agents Without Losing Control | Madelyn Olson, AWS” from Open Source Summit North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 53s

2. “Lightning Talk: AI Can Contribute. It Can’t Lead - Lahari Chowtoori, AWS” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 05s

3. “Sponsored Session: Open Source Search and Observability in the Agentic Era - Bobby Mohammed, AWS” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 26s

C++

1. “Instrumenting the Stack: Strategies for End-to-end Sanitizer Adoption - Damien Buhl - CppCon 2025” from CppCon 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 37s

2. “Andrey Abramov – C++ Search for Database Kernels: Built In, Not Bolted On #bbuzz” from Berlin Buzzwords 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 08s

Data Engineering

1. “Naci Simsek – Beyond the Hype: When Apache Flink Solves Real Problems #bbuzz” from Berlin Buzzwords 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 36s

2. “Steffen Hoellinger – Event-driven Agents with Complex Event Processing in Flink #bbuzz” from Berlin Buzzwords 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 57s

3. “Celeste Horgan – Writes, 3 ways: Postgres, Apache Kafka® and Apache Iceberg™ #bbuzz” from Berlin Buzzwords 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 03s

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Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “Lightning Talk: Simple Yet Scalable MLOps: Bridging the Gap Between... Sachin Garg & Sameeksha Garg” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 14s

2. “Bartosz Mikulski – The Failures That Don’t Crash: MLOps for AI Agents #bbuzz” from Berlin Buzzwords 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 30s

Databases

1. “Thinking in Relationships: Practical Graph Database Modelling in Java with Neo4j by Paulien van Alst” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 07s

2. “Unified Database Provisioning and Management on Kubernetes - Kyle Avants, Percona” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 22s

3. “A Fun & Absurd Introduction to Vector Databases • Alexander Chatzizacharias • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 40s

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DevOps

1. “LLM Observability, Evaluation, Experimentation Platform — Dat Ngo, Arize” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 32s

2. “Keynote: 10 Million Spans Per Second: Lessons From Scaling OpenTelemetry at Reddit - Trevor Riles” from Observability Summit North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 26s

3. “Taming Observability at Scale in a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform at Bloom... Joe Nathan Abellard” from Observability Summit North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 24s

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Java

1. “#JavaNext Language Features” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 36s

2. “How Fast Can You Parse 1 Billion Rows in Java? – Insane Speed Test • Roy van Rijn • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 31s

3. “Inside Spring Boot 4: Restructuring for the Future by Moritz Halbritter @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 52s

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Kotlin

1. “What Nobody Told Us About KMP on iOS | KotlinConfersations’26” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 14m 14s

Kubernetes

1. “Taming Observability at Scale in a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform at Bloom... Joe Nathan Abellard” from Observability Summit North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 24s

2. “Kubernetes 2026: The New Operating System for AI & Apps - Mukesh Aurangabadkar & Udit Misra” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 31s

3. “Kubernetes Cluster Creation Landscape - The Easy and the Hard Ways - Wendy Ha, SEEK” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 50s

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Misc

1. “Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting” from Keynotes @ Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +18k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 54s

2. “What Running FreeBSD on a Modern Laptop Taught Me - Deb Goodkin, The FreeBSD Foundation” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 55s

3. “Building the Simplest Possible Linux System - Rob Landley, Hobbyist” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 38s

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Mobile

1. “What Nobody Told Us About KMP on iOS | KotlinConfersations’26” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 14m 14s

Python

1. “TokioConf 2026 - Async Rust Meets Async Python: How Daft runs... by Colin Ho, Srinivas Lade” from TokioConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 22s

2. “Standardizing Deterministic Interoperability and Resource-Intelligent Design in... Lilinoe Harbottle” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 41s

React

1. “React, Rendering, Performance - Nadia Makarevich - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 09s

2. “Troubleshooting Like a Senior on Day 1: ReAct Agents With... Bohyun Choi, Woobin Hwang & TaeJi Kim” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 27s

3. “How Not to Use TanStack Query - Dan Neciu | JSHeroes 2026” from JSHeroes 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 46s

Ruby / Rails

1. “From Guidance To Guardrails: Cost & Carbon Policy-as-Code With OPA... Machiko Shinozuka & Kouki Hama” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 43s

Rust

1. “From Malloc To Box: A Practical Guide To Rustification - Christina Quast, Independent” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 52s

2. “TokioConf 2026 - I want it, you want it, we want it: let’s rewrite it in Rust! by Glauber Costa” from TokioConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 6, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 20s

3. “TokioConf 2026 - Async Rust Meets Async Python: How Daft runs... by Colin Ho, Srinivas Lade” from TokioConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 22s

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Security

1. “Secure Boot for Embedded Linux: Explained in Simple Words - Roy Jamil, Ac6” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 08s

2. “How GitHub Secures Open Source - Bas Alberts, GitHub” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 20s

3. “Lazy Rivers and Open Source Security: Learn About the OpenSSF With... Angelah Liu & Stacey Potter” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 41s

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Software Architecture

1. “Crafting Great APIs with Domain-Driven Design by Fabrizio Lazzaretti @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 31s

2. “The Architect’s Guide to the AI Era • Luca Mezzalira & Teena Idnani • GOTO 2026” from GOTO 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 35s

3. “Thinking in Relationships: Practical Graph Database Modelling in Java with Neo4j by Paulien van Alst” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 07s

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Swift

1. “What Nobody Told Us About KMP on iOS | KotlinConfersations’26” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 14m 14s

Web / Frontend

1. “React, Rendering, Performance - Nadia Makarevich - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 09s

2. “You might not need JS - Cyd Stumpel | JSHeroes 2026” from JSHeroes 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 49s

3. “Working backwards - Daniel Roe | JSHeroes 2026” from JSHeroes 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 24s

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Web Assembly

1. “Building a Shared, Persistent Virtual Filesystem for WebAssembly - Ayako Hayasaka, LY Corporation” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 25s

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🏆 Featured this week

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1. “How Lovable self-improves every hour — Benjamin Verbeek, Lovable” from AI Engineer Europe 2026

Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 05s

tldw: At 200,000 projects per day, Lovable runs two continuous improvement loops. The first detects sessions where a nontechnical user got stuck and then unblocked, clusters similar cases, and injects that context upstream; a holdout group measures actual project completion rates to prune stale entries when models or features change. The vent loop runs in parallel: the agent flags missing tools, broken platform behavior, and confusing docs as it works. Vent volume spikes turned out to be a reliable incident detector. A second agent now monitors the channel, deduplicates reports, and opens PRs automatically.

2. “How Fast Can You Parse 1 Billion Rows in Java? – Insane Speed Test • Roy van Rijn • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 31s

tldw: Gunnar Morling once posted a deceivingly simple challenge: how fast can you parse a file with 1 billion rows of weather data in Java? Roy van Rijn, Java Champion and director at OpenValue Rotterdam, took the bait and ended up on a deep dive through parallelism, memory mapped files, SWAR, bit twiddling, branchless code, mechanical sympathy, GraalVM native compilation and yes, even sun.misc.Unsafe. Join him as he walks through every code change and trick that took the runtime from 4+ minutes down to under 2 seconds, because who knew Java could be this fast?

3. “It’s Time To Talk About Signals - Julian Burr - NDC Sydney 2026” from NDC Sydney 2026

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 17s

tldw: Signals are on track to become a real JavaScript feature via an active TC39 proposal. This talk explains what signals are, why they keep showing up across frameworks and what changes if they finally get implemented in the language.

4. “Micro Frontends & me, a love story by Dan Neciu - JNation 2026” from JNation 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 49s

tldw: Dan Neciu used to think micro frontends were stupid, unproven tech and a fad. After interviewing engineering leaders on his Señors @ Scale podcast about how they pulled it off at scale, he started to see how the pattern could solve real problems in his own company. This talk walks through his journey of actually implementing micro frontends: the tradeoffs, the rollout and which tooling choices matter.

📆 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.

.NET at Build 2026 (5), AI Engineer Europe 2026 (21), AWS Financial Services Symposium (FSI) 2026 (11), All Things Open 2025 (1), Beam College 2026 (7), Conference Talks 2026 (5), Devoxx Poland 2024 (2), EnvoyCon Virtual 2026 (9), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (2), JCON EUROPE 2026 (4), JNation 2026 (42), Jfokus 2026 (1), Keynotes @ Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026 (4), KyvernoCon Virtual 2026 (7), Linux Security Summit North America 2026 (11), NDC Sydney 2026 (4), Observability Summit North America 2026 (42), Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026 (202), Open Source Summit North America 2026 (2), QCon San Francisco 2025 (3), YOW! 2025 (1), performance.now() 2025 (1)

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🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

This issue’s talks and podcasts, sorted by view count and organized by topic.

AI Engineering

1. “How I deleted 95% of my agent skills and got better results — Nick Nisi, WorkOS” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +78k views ⸱ May 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 43s

2. “Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents — Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +25k views ⸱ May 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 40s

3. “Most Enterprise Agentic Projects Are Doomed, Here’s Why — Jess Grogan-Avignon & Jack Wang, Accenture” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +21k views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 35s

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AWS

1. “AWS FSI NYC 2026 - How Nasdaq Operationalizes AI Across the Enterprise & Trade Lifecycle” from AWS Financial Services Symposium (FSI) 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 48s

2. “AWS FSI NYC 2026 - Transamerica: Grid optimization and unleashing agentic AI innovation” from AWS Financial Services Symposium (FSI) 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 05s

3. “AWS FSI NYC 2026 - Nubank: Scaling fraud detection to 450M events daily” from AWS Financial Services Symposium (FSI) 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 38s

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BEAM

1. “Scaling Iceberg Ingestion with Apache Beam - Beam College 2026” from Beam College 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 11s

2. “Apache Beam: Powering the Future of Event-Driven Agents at Scale - Beam College 2026” from Beam College 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 30s

3. “Video Data Processing with Beam - Beam College 2026” from Beam College 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 36s

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C# / .NET

1. “Building for the agentic web with .NET 11” from .NET at Build 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 47s

2. “Simplifying .NET Installs with dotnetup” from .NET at Build 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 51s

3. “AI Building Blocks for .NET: Add intelligence to your C# Apps” from .NET at Build 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 54s

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Data Engineering

1. “Scaling Iceberg Ingestion with Apache Beam - Beam College 2026” from Beam College 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 11s

2. “Apache Beam: Powering the Future of Event-Driven Agents at Scale - Beam College 2026” from Beam College 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 30s

3. “Video Data Processing with Beam - Beam College 2026” from Beam College 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 36s

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Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “Lightning Talk: Simple Yet Scalable MLOps: Bridging the Gap Between... Sachin Garg & Sameeksha Garg” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 14s

Databases

1. “The Ultimate Showdown of Database Migration Tools by Pasha Finkelshteyn, Anton Arhipov- JNation 2026” from JNation 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 03s

2. “Unified Database Provisioning and Management on Kubernetes - Kyle Avants, Percona” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 22s

DevOps

1. “OpenTelemetry Is the Kubernetes of Observability | Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF” from Open Source Summit North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 57s

2. “Making AI Personal: Building Context-Rich AI Tools with MCP • Kris Jenkins • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 31s

3. “Drift Prevention in GitOps Workflows Using Kyverno - Omolade Akinwumi, DevOps Engineer/Founder @MAX” from KyvernoCon Virtual 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 52s

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Java

1. “Intelligent JVM Monitoring: Combining JDK Flight Recorder with AI” from Jfokus 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 39s

2. “How Fast Can You Parse 1 Billion Rows in Java? – Insane Speed Test • Roy van Rijn • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 31s

3. “Bootiful Spring Boot 4 by Josh Long - JNation 2026” from JNation 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 15s

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Kubernetes

1. “OpenTelemetry Is the Kubernetes of Observability | Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF” from Open Source Summit North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 57s

2. “Seamless AI-as-a-Service across Kubernetes Clusters With Envoy AI Gate... Karol Szwaj, Kubermatic” from EnvoyCon Virtual 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 27s

3. “Taming Observability at Scale in a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform at Bloom... Joe Nathan Abellard” from Observability Summit North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 24s

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Leadership

1. “The Quantum Tech Lead: Hands-On and Abstract at the Same Time by Cristian Schuszter - JNation 2026” from JNation 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 12s

Misc

1. “Spec-Driven Development: The Fast Track to 10x? - Jerry Nixon - NDC Sydney 2026” from NDC Sydney 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 13m 03s

2. “How Stripe Moves Petabytes of Data with 5.5 Nines of Reliability” from QCon San Francisco 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 50s

3. “It’s Time To Talk About Signals - Julian Burr - NDC Sydney 2026” from NDC Sydney 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 17s

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Python

1. “How AI Erased the Software Implementation Bottleneck (90% Shipped Code)” from QCon San Francisco 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jun 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 21s

2. “Standardizing Deterministic Interoperability and Resource-Intelligent Design in... Lilinoe Harbottle” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 41s

React

1. “Reactive Web Apps With 100% Java | Leif Åstrand (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 37s

2. “React, Rendering, Performance - Nadia Makarevich - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 09s

3. “From 3000ms to 300ms: Lessons learned from optimizing Tanstack ... by Harshil Agrawal - JNation 2026” from JNation 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 28s

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Ruby / Rails

1. “Policy-as-Code for LLM Inference: Cost & Security Guardrails - Sakalya Deshpande, SAP Labs” from KyvernoCon Virtual 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 38s

2. “From Guidance To Guardrails: Cost & Carbon Policy-as-Code With OPA... Machiko Shinozuka & Kouki Hama” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 43s

Rust

1. “Bringing the power of Envoy extensibility to Go and Rust developers - Ignasi Barrera, Tetrate” from EnvoyCon Virtual 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 45s

2. “From Malloc To Box: A Practical Guide To Rustification - Christina Quast, Independent” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 52s

Security

1. “Policy-as-Code for LLM Inference: Cost & Security Guardrails - Sakalya Deshpande, SAP Labs” from KyvernoCon Virtual 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 38s

2. “Lazy Rivers and Open Source Security: Learn About the OpenSSF With... Angelah Liu & Stacey Potter” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 34m 41s

3. “Secure by Design: Rethinking Test Credentials for Synthetic Monitoring - Katie Kodes, Katie Kodes” from Observability Summit North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 34s

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Software Architecture

1. “Microservices and Microfrontends: Scaling, Learning, Growing | Lofi Dewanto & Patricia Erdelen (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 19s

2. “Apache Beam: Powering the Future of Event-Driven Agents at Scale - Beam College 2026” from Beam College 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 30s

3. “Keynote: The First Decade of Open Quantum - Sean Dague, Chief Services Architect, IBM Quantum” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 13m 48s

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Web / Frontend

1. “Reactive Web Apps With 100% Java | Leif Åstrand (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 37s

2. “React, Rendering, Performance - Nadia Makarevich - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 09s

3. “Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid by Erik Rasmussen - JNation 2026” from JNation 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 49s

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Web Assembly

1. “WebAssembly and the Future of the JVM Ecosystem by Andrea Peruffo - JNation 2026” from JNation 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 30s

2. “Building a Shared, Persistent Virtual Filesystem for WebAssembly - Ayako Hayasaka, LY Corporation” from Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Jun 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 25s

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #106!

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This week’s issue features lots of really great talks. From Netflix sharing how they use Java AOT in production, to Stripe explaining how coding agents work inside a huge monorepo as well as distributed databases challenges, HTTP/3 migration at DeliveryHero, memory models comparison across five different programming languages, vector search with OpenSearch, and the real cost of context switching between threads and coroutines.

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🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “Keynote | KotlinConf ’26” from KotlinConf 2026

Conference ⸱ +20k views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 34s

tldw: The KotlinConf ‘26 keynote in Munich opens with a clear theme: Kotlin is becoming a full ecosystem for backend, mobile, web, AI and multiplatform development, not just a language. Highlights include Kotlin 2.4 with stabilized context parameters and explicit backing fields, an 18-month security support policy for the standard library and an alpha release of an official Kotlin extension for VS Code. On the AI side, JetBrains is co-leading the new Agent Client Protocol for IDE-to-agent communication and shipping Junie, its coding agent, with dedicated Android support.

2. “Java AOT in Production at Netflix” from JavaOne 2026

Conference ⸱ +9k views ⸱ May 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 35s

tldw: Netflix used Project Leyden to dramatically improve startup time of critical services, but the JDK feature itself was only part of the story. The infrastructure they built around it is what made it work. Ian Brown, who leads Netflix’s Java Platform teams, and Martin Chalupa, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, walk through the autoscaling problem that started the project, a primer on Leyden and ahead-of-time caches, how Netflix integrated the AOT archive into existing deployment pipelines, the lessons learned along the way and the measured results.

3. “Stop babysitting your agents... — Brandon Walsenuk, Unblocked” from AI Engineer Europe 2026

Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ May 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 54s

tldw: Same prompt, same agent, same model. Without a context engine: 2.5 hours, 20.9 million tokens and code that would have broken the entire system if it was deployed. With one: 25 minutes and a single nitpick before merge. Brandon Walsenuk from Unblocked argues the problem isn’t access but understanding: a context engine reasons across your codebase, Slack history, PR patterns and org structure...

4. “Introducing WebMCP: Agents in the Browser — RL Nabors” from AI Engineer Europe 2026

Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ May 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 08s

tldw: RL Nabors, a developer experience leader and alumna of the React Core Team and W3C, walks through MCP Apps, which bundle HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a single file rendered in an iframe by the agent, and WebMCP, which lets browser agents call your site’s existing functions directly using tool name and description attributes on forms you already have.

5. “Spring I/O 2026 Keynote” from Spring I/O 2026

Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 01h 08m 44s

tldw: The Spring I/O 2026 keynote in Barcelona brings together Juergen Hoeller, Rossen Stoyanchev, Oliver Drotbohm, Christian Tzolov and Josh Long for an overview of where the Spring ecosystem is heading. Expect Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4, why the team recommends moving directly to JDK 25, Project Loom with virtual threads and structured concurrency, Spring Modulith and modern application architecture, plus Spring AI 2.0 with MCP support, agentic workflows and Java’s role in AI.

6. “Distributed Databases: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Heather Downing - NDC Sydney 2026” from NDC Sydney 2026

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 25s

tldw: Scaling a database sounds like a great idea, until you start counting the ways it can fail. Add more nodes, throw in replication, and suddenly you’re explaining to stakeholders why two customers saw two different truths at the same time. Heather Downing, a Developer Advocate with deep experience across enterprise .NET and mobile, covers the fundamentals like replication, consistency and partitions, along with the tradeoffs nobody mentions when they say “just scale horizontally.”

7. “Coroutines vs. Threads: The True Cost of a Context Switch” from Android Makers by droidcon 2026

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 44s

tldw: We’ve all been told coroutines are “lightweight” and threads are “expensive,” but what does that really mean at the OS and hardware level? This talk goes beyond the Kotlin APIs to explore the anatomy of a context switch: the syscall, the kernel trap, the scheduler saving registers and the resulting CPU cache invalidation, then contrasts it with the elegant user-space dance of a suspending coroutine.

8. “REST sends data across the network. What if it could send callable objects instead? | Kenton Varda” from JSNation 2026

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 56s

tldw: REST APIs return data; Cap’n Web returns stubs: references to live objects on the server. That single shift changes everything about how you design APIs. Kenton Varda, lead engineer of Cloudflare Workers and creator of Cap’n Proto, shows why passing functions and objects by reference over the network isn’t just a nice DX improvement but a fundamentally different security model for AI agents. You’ll see TypeScript-native RPC that eliminates client libraries, promise pipelining that collapses three round trips into one without await, server-side lifecycle management that knows when the client is gone.

9. “Deploying HTTP/3 at Scale on Mobile: A 17% Startup Latency Gain Despite Implementation Constraints” from Android Makers by droidcon 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 24, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 12s

tldw: HTTP/3 promises better performance, but rolling it out at scale on Android exposes hidden trade-offs. The DeliveryHero engineering team deployed HTTP/3 across Android apps serving millions of users in 18 European and APAC markets, and used a randomized controlled experiment to measure a 51% reduction in connection handshake latency and up to 17% faster p90 home screen response times, alongside unexpected regressions on some secondary screens. The talk shares the full journey: from identifying last-mile mobile networking as the dominant performance bottleneck, through deployment, to diagnosing why some optimizations never materialized.

10. “We Built It for One. Then Everything Multiplied.” from Android Makers by droidcon 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 24s

tldw: When the team launched their Android banking app, it had one account, one portfolio and one currency, and the architecture was simple because the assumptions were simple. Then the business grew. This is the story of evolving into a multi-account, multi-portfolio, multi-currency platform without starting from scratch, told as a two-perspective narrative: one speaker covers the business drivers, the other the technical reality on Android (what broke, what scaled and what they’d do differently). You’ll leave knowing where single-account assumptions hide in your codebase and why complexity is multiplicative, not additive, when you stack these layers together.

11. “When ORM Becomes OMG: Performance Pitfalls in JPA and Friends | Jos Roseboom (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 50s

tldw: Jos Roseboom, founder of EasingYou, takes you on a tour of the common and not-so-common performance pitfalls that turn object-relational mapping into an object-relational mess. From data loading problems to connection mismanagement, he explores real-world issues using the FunFactStore: a sample app where fun facts are sold but bugs are free.

12. “Gents in the Monorepo: How we’re using LLM Coding Agents to tame a massive codebase at Stripe” from Codemotion Madrid 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 32s

tldw: Chris Ruiz from Stripe shows what happens when AI stops being an occasional helper and starts living inside a real enterprise-scale monorepo. The talk dives into how Stripe is using LLM coding agents to tackle one of modern engineering’s hardest problems: keeping an enormous codebase, full of legacy, internal conventions and historical decisions, under control. Chris walks through agent strategies already in production, from autonomous “minions” that handle simple tasks and produce review-ready pull requests from Slack, to Claude Code-based agents capable of executing multi-step migrations that require planning, research and coordination. He also covers how AI is helping dismantle frontend monoliths by guiding teams through the progressive removal of legacy patterns.

13. “Horacio Gonzalez - Rediscovering PHP: Modern Practices Beyond Legacy -” from Codemotion Madrid 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 29s

tldw: Horacio Gonzalez, Head of DevRel at Clever Cloud, invites you to rediscover the language from a modern angle and shows how PHP 8+ has become a mature, robust platform fully competitive with anything in today’s ecosystem. Expect JIT compilation, stricter typing, attributes and a tooling story built around Composer, the PSR standards, static analysis and dependency injection.

14. “Jesús Espino - Understanding 5 languages memory models (or most of them” from Codemotion Madrid 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 54s

tldw: Memory management is one of those things everyone uses daily but few really understand in depth. Jesús Espino, Principal Engineer at Ona and a veteran of open source projects like Taiga, Penpot and Mattermost, demonstrates how C, Rust, Python, Go and Java manage memory in radically different ways. The talk starts with what actually happens on the stack and the heap, then heads into trickier territory: garbage collection, mark-and-sweep, stop-the-world pauses and the machinery most of us use without ever seeing what runs underneath.

15. “Diana Cibu - How to handle over 1 trillion http requests/day: behind the scenes of ad tech industry” from Codemotion Madrid 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 48s

tldw: In modern ad tech platforms, scale isn’t a goal: it’s the starting point. Every second, these systems make millions of real-time decisions under brutal latency constraints, where a few milliseconds can directly impact revenue. Diana Cibu, DevLead at Criteo, takes you inside one of engineering’s most demanding ecosystems and walks through how systems handling over a trillion HTTP requests per day are designed and operated. You’ll follow an ad impression end-to-end, from page load to milliseconds-later decision, and see the distributed systems, queues and caches that make it look invisible.

16. “Dotan Horovits - Vector Search Made Simple: Getting Started with OpenSearch for AI Applications -” from Codemotion Madrid 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 28s

tldw: Dotan Horovits, OpenSearch Ambassador at AWS, is talking about moving to modern approach to search: from traditional lexical matching to vector search based on semantic similarity. The session introduces vector database fundamentals, shows how OpenSearch evolved into a platform that understands text, image and audio embeddings and walks through what it enables: semantic search, recommendation engines, visual search and systems that actually start to understand content.

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17. “The European Startup Scene” from Software Engineering Daily

Podcast ⸱ May 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 54s

tldl: Europe’s startup ecosystem is maturing rapidly, with companies like Revolut, Lovable and Legora showing that world-class technology businesses can be built and scaled on the continent. The US still dominates venture-backed software with the largest markets, deepest capital pools and most ambitious exit culture, but a growing number of European startups are challenging that narrative. This Software Engineering Daily episode explores what’s actually different about the European scene and what it means for engineers and founders watching from either side of the Atlantic.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/05/26/the-european-startup-scene/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-european-startup-scene

18. “Go for Java Programmers • Barry Feigenbaum & Shon Saliga • GOTO 2026” from GOTO Conferences

Podcast ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:32:30

tldl: Dr. Barry Feigenbaum, an IBM, Amazon and Dell veteran with decades of Java experience, spent time working with Go on microservices and liked it enough to write the book he wished had existed when he made the switch. In this GOTO Book Club episode with longtime colleague Shon Saliga, IBM Storage Evangelist, he walks through the core contrasts: Go is a compiled language that targets a narrower domain than Java but excels at command-line tools and web servers, with smaller binaries, faster startup and dramatically lower container overhead. Concurrency is the headline difference: goroutines are far lighter than Java threads and the channel-based communication model sidesteps many of the problems that make concurrent Java code hard to reason about.

📆 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.

AI Engineer Europe 2026 (18), AgentCon Berlin 2026 (1), Android Makers by droidcon 2026 (17), Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026 (3), Codemotion Madrid 2026 (28), Conf42 Golang 2026 (20), Conference Talks 2026 (5), Devoxx Poland 2024 (3), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (3), JCON EUROPE 2026 (4), JSNation 2026 (1), JavaOne 2026 (1), KotlinConf 2026 (1), KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (1), NDC Sydney 2026 (13), Observability Day Europe 2026 (1), QCon AI New York 2025 (2), Seattle Rust User Group 2026 (1), Spring I/O 2026 (10), YOW! 2025 (1), performance.now() 2025 (1)

📆 New podcasts

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

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🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

This issue’s talks and podcasts, sorted by view count and organized by topic.

AI Engineering

1. “From 46% to 90%: Fine-Tuning Tiny LLMs for On-Device Agents — Cormac Brick, Google” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +35k views ⸱ May 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 01s

2. “Your Coding Agent Should Do AI System Engineering — Ben Burtenshaw, Hugging Face” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +13k views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 25s

3. “Fast Models Need Slow Developers — Sarah Chieng, Cerebras” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +9k views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 02s

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BEAM

1. “KEYNOTE: Residuality Theory in Software Architecture, Barry O’Reilly | Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026” from Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 37s

2. “Erlang/OTP Update - Björn Gustavsson | Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026” from Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 17s

3. “KEYNOTE: Ericsson - 150 years of innovation - Mike Begley | Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026” from Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 44s

Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “Kateryna Hrytsaienko - 3+1 ways to do MlOps with Kubernetes” from Codemotion Madrid 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 44s

Databases

1. “Distributed Databases: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Heather Downing - NDC Sydney 2026” from NDC Sydney 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 25s

2. “Disaggregated Intelligence: Scaling AI Agents with Dynamo and Kubernetes” from Conference Talks 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 39s

3. “Horacio Gonzalez - Rediscovering PHP: Modern Practices Beyond Legacy -” from Codemotion Madrid 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 29s

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DevOps

1. “DevOps for Android supercharged with AI” from Android Makers by droidcon 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 57s

2. “Unmask hidden JVM app issues w/Observability superpowers! • Marcin Grzejszczak • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 01s

3. “Beyond Dashboards: Cultivating the Observability Mindset - O. Hope Amaechi-Okorie, JSON Schema” from Observability Day Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 35s

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Go

1. “Scalable Design Systems for High-Performance Analytics Platforms | Sonali Priya | Conf42 Golang 2026” from Conf42 Golang 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 00s

2. “Modularizing a 10-Year Monolith | Victor Lyuboslavsky | Conf42 Golang 2026” from Conf42 Golang 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 06s

3. “From Code Correctness to Behavior Validation | Sana Fatima | Conf42 Golang 2026” from Conf42 Golang 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 42s

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Java

1. “Java AOT in Production at Netflix” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +9k views ⸱ May 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 35s

2. “Spring Native: The Future of Fast and Efficient Spring Applications by Alina Yurenko @ Spring I/O” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ May 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 17s

3. “Spring I/O 2026 Keynote” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 01h 08m 44s

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Kotlin

1. “Keynote | KotlinConf ’26” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +20k views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 34s

Kubernetes

1. “Lobster Trap: OpenClaw in Containers from Local to K8s and Back — Sally Ann O’Malley, Red Hat” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 56s

2. “Scaling Agents on Kubernetes with acpx and ACP — Onur Solmaz, OpenClaw” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 00s

3. “WebAssembly on Kubernetes • Nicolas Frankel • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ May 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 05s

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Misc

1. “From Chaos to Cohesion: Building Modular Monoliths in the Real World by Patrick Baumgartner SIO26” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 29s

2. “The Persistence Heavyweight Championship: JPA vs. jOOQ by Pasha Finkelshteyn / Catherine Edelveis” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 38s

3. “Continuous Delivery in a World of Constant Change • Abby Bangser & Dave Farley • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 20s

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Mobile

1. “Keynote | KotlinConf ’26” from KotlinConf 2026
   Conference ⸱ +20k views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 34s

2. “Build The Million-Dollar Animation” from Android Makers by droidcon 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 24, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 44s

3. “Coroutines vs. Threads: The True Cost of a Context Switch” from Android Makers by droidcon 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 44s

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Rust

1. “9 Ways to do Inheritance in Rust — by Carl Kadie — Seattle Rust User Group, May 2026” from Seattle Rust User Group 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 49s

2. “Speed, Safety, Sustainability. Pick 3 with Rust & Serverless - James Eastham” from Codemotion Madrid 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 24s

3. “Rustam Mehmandarov (Miles) - API = Some REST and HTTP, right? RIGHT?!” from Codemotion Madrid 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 39s

Security

1. “Skill Degradation: An Empirical Analysis of 400+ AI‑Generated Security Fixes - Pedram Hayati” from NDC Sydney 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ May 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 21s

2. “The Rise of Automated Fraud: Architecting Security Against “AI Slop”” from QCon AI New York 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 02s

3. “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of AI in Security • Olympiu Pop, Steve Poole • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 30s

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Software Architecture

1. “The Reckless Speed of AI Agents: Architectural Amnesia EXPOSED” from QCon AI New York 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 06s

2. “KEYNOTE: Residuality Theory in Software Architecture, Barry O’Reilly | Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026” from Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 37s

3. “The Rise of Automated Fraud: Architecting Security Against “AI Slop”” from QCon AI New York 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ May 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 02s

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Swift

1. “Modular by Design: A Pragmatic Architecture for Multi Mobile iOS App Portfolios - Vicente Vicens” from Codemotion Madrid 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 50s

Web / Frontend

1. “Cross-browser Virtual Scrolling - Michael Hladky - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 56s

Web Assembly

1. “WebAssembly on Kubernetes • Nicolas Frankel • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ May 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 05s

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #105!

We’ve got lots of great talks this week, so let’s get started! As always, if you found something useful, hit the ❤️ or leave a comment. Thank you and now let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “Java 26: Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime” from JavaOne 2026

Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ May 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 25s

tldw: After JavaOne 2025, JDK 25 became the latest LTS release. But Java keeps moving forward, and now JDK 26 is here. Nicolai Parlog, a Java Developer Advocate at Oracle, demoes the key changes from Java 21 to 25, including unnamed patterns, module imports, the foreign-function and memory API, stream gatherers, and the class-file API. He also takes a closer look at JDK 26 and its preview features, such as primitive patterns, improved structured concurrency, and HTTP/3 support.

2. “Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright MCP — Marlene Mhangami, Microsoft” from AI Engineer Singapore 2026

Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ May 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 45s

tldw: When an LLM writes tests after the code, it often produces tests that simply confirm the current implementation rather than checking whether the user experience really works. As a result, your test suite can pass even while the app is broken in ways the tests never cover. Marlene Mhangami, Senior Developer Advocate for Python and AI at Microsoft, argues for reversing that workflow. Get the agent first to write failing Playwright tests, then generate the code needed to make those tests pass. The demo walks through this approach using GitHub Copilot and the Playwright MCP server on a toy store search feature. With the browser open, you can watch the agent interact with filters and validate search results in real time.

3. “Tech Truth: Agile Evolution & the Future of SW Engineering • Martin Fowler & Kent Beck • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 56s

tldw: Martin Fowler and Kent Beck, longtime friends and leaders in software development, recently sat down to talk about their experiences over the past thirty years. They shared how AI now plays a real role in their work: Kent sees it as a patient tutor for trying out ideas, while Martin points out that AI helps us communicate with computers, but people skills are still essential for building software that meets real needs. They also looked back at the Agile Manifesto, almost 25 years later, discussing what Extreme Programming got right and how some of its ideas changed as more people adopted them. The conversation ends with helpful advice for junior developers.

4. “Why Most Event-Driven Systems Fail in Banking (And How to Fix It)” from InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 25s

tldw: Event-driven, cloud-native architectures promise ultimate scalability, but highly regulated industries like fintech and healthcare introduce strict boundaries where you cannot afford to lose or duplicate a single event. Chris Tacey-Green, Head of Engineering at Investec, walks us through the foundational principles of lean events versus fat events, the critical difference between commands and events and why you do not need event sourcing to succeed. You will also learn how to implement patterns like Inbox and Outbox patterns to stop data duplication, maintain event contracts across domain boundaries and tackle event ordering.

5. “Structured Concurrency: The paradigm shift that changes modern development - Android Makers” from Android Makers 2026

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 38s

tldw: For decades concurrent programming has meant wrestling with complexity, resource leaks and stray processes. Structured concurrency is the paradigm shift that changes how you write, read and reason about concurrent code, and this session cuts through the hype to reveal the core principle: concurrent tasks should have a clear beginning, end and scope, just like any other code block. You will see how that simple idea organizes tasks into clear hierarchies that enable automatic, reliable cancellation, so when one task fails its entire family is gracefully cleaned up. Watch to see how this paradigm, now being adopted in languages from Java to Kotlin and beyond, makes concurrent code robust, readable and easier to manage than ever.

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6. “Formal Methods as Agent Guardrails” from Software Engineering Daily

Podcast ⸱ May 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 32s

tldl: Formal methods are a branch of mathematics and computer science focused on proving the correctness of systems and they are promising a more rigorous foundation for software. Their complexity has kept them confined to a small community of specialists, but that is now changing as agentic AI systems take on increasingly autonomous roles. This episode of Software Engineering Daily explores how formal methods can act as guardrails for AI agents, giving them the verifiable safety that autonomous software increasingly demands.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/05/19/formal-methods-as-agent-guardrails/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=formal-methods-as-agent-guardrails

7. “What is harness engineering? — Thoughtworks Technology Podcast” from Thoughtworks

Podcast ⸱ May 14, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:40:51

tldl: Harness engineering is one of the most significant terms to emerge in software engineering in 2026. It broadly refers to the work done to control unpredictable AI agents and coding assistants, and its rise signals growing attention on what it takes to make agents reliable and consistent enough for real-world production software. Listen to this episode to see what harness engineering actually is and how it should be done.

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AI Engineering

1. “Harnesses in AI: A Deep Dive — Tejas Kumar, IBM” from AI Engineer Singapore 2026
   Conference ⸱ +38k views ⸱ May 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 27s

2. “Build Agents That Run for Hours (Without Losing the Plot) — Ash Prabaker & Andrew Wilson, Anthropic” from AI Engineer Singapore 2026
   Conference ⸱ +28k views ⸱ May 18, 2026 ⸱ 01h 15m 40s

3. “Agents Don’t Do Standups: Building the Post-Engineer Engineering Org — Mike Spitz, PFF” from AI Engineer Singapore 2026
   Conference ⸱ +22k views ⸱ May 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 50s

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AWS

1. “How to Build Your Full-Stack Applications With CDK & AWS Amplify • Erik Hanchett • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 40s

DevOps

1. “Mind the Gap (In your Agent Observability) — Amy Boyd & Nitya Narasimhan, Microsoft” from AI Engineer Singapore 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ May 14, 2026 ⸱ 01h 20m 07s

Java

1. “Java 26: Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ May 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 25s

2. “Core Resilience Features in Spring Framework 7 by Juergen Hoeller @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 46s

3. “Beyond local tools: Deep dive into MCP with Spring AI by James Ward / Maximilian Schellhorn” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 55s

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Kotlin

1. “Offline Should be the norm building local first apps with CRDTs & Kotlin Multiplatform” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 51s

2. “Koin + Kotlin Compiler = ♥️” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 40s

3. “The Lord of Collection Functions - The Fellowship of Kotlin” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 16s

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Kubernetes

1. “Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers” from InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 18, 2026

Misc

1. “How I Doubled eBay’s Productivity - And Still Got Fired” from QCon San Francisco 2025
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ May 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 18s

2. “Tech Truth: Agile Evolution & the Future of SW Engineering • Martin Fowler & Kent Beck • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 56s

3. “Ye Cannae Change the Laws of Physics • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ May 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 37s

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Mobile

1. “Shipping “Smart UI” with RemoteCompose - Android Makers by droidCon 2026” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 48s

2. “The ViewModel Performance Trap: When State Management Bites Back - Android Makers by droidCon 2026” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 57s

3. “Ways to reduce your app’s memory and storage footprint - Android Makers by droidCon 2026” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 44s

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Python

1. “Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright MCP — Marlene Mhangami, Microsoft” from AI Engineer Singapore 2026
   Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ May 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 45s

Security

1. “Hack Your Own App Getting Started with Mobile Penetration Testing - Android Makers by droidCon 2026” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 00s

Software Architecture

1. “Why Most Event-Driven Systems Fail in Banking (And How to Fix It)” from InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 25s

2. “Relevance of Unix Philosophy in Modern Architectural Solutions • Daniel Pokusa • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 27s

3. “From SQL to Flow: clean offline-first architecture with Kotlin 2.x” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 03s

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Happy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #104!

It's been a big week for the Java folks: Devoxx UK 2026 and Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026 have published their talks. Even if Java isn't your day-to-day, Scott Gerring's "10 Things Rust Could Learn from Java" is really good watch (you'll find the link below). Besides Java, there's tons of really great talks and podcasts this week. In fact, "AI Engineering" category includes over 100 talks, which was not unexpected. Also, Bjarne Stroustrup did a 2.5h session at the Italian C++ Meetup this week which is something don't see every week.

On another note, on Tuesday, I published a compilation of the best (imo) distributed systems talks of all time. Have a look if you missed it!

As always, if you found something useful, hit the ❤️ or leave a comment. Thank you 🙏 and now let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “[VDBUH2026] Julien Topçu - Hexagonal Architecture in Practice” from Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026

Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 05s

tldw: There always comes a point when software becomes so complex and old that it feels unmaintainable: new features take forever and the technical debt makes refactoring feel impossible. What if all of this is more of a practice problem than a software aging problem? Julien Topçu, technical coach at SHODO and an OWASP member with 15 years experience with Domain-Driven Design, tackles software complexity through introducing Hexagonal Architecture in this really nice ~45min live coding session. Watch to see how ports and adapters make your codebase adaptable, sustainable and far easier to manage as it grows.

2. “[VDBUH2026] Loïc Magnette - Finding the Spark: A Career Reset Button” from Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 12s

tldw: A few years ago, Loïc Magnette hit a strange point in his career: on paper everything looked fine but the excitement he used to feel when writing code was gone. In this talk, Loïc, senior developer at Oniryx and co-organizer of the Belgian Java User Group shares how joining the wider Java community helped him rediscover the spark behind every line of code. Watch to find out what inspires and motivates us to do our work, how community can change the way we grow as developers and why giving back often returns more than you expect.

3. “10 Things Rust Could Learn from Java (and 5 Things Java Should Probably Steal Back) by Scott Gerring” from Devoxx UK 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 35s

tldw: Rust may be the new systems darling, but Java solved many of its hardest problems decades ago. In this lighthearted yet practical talk, Scott Gerring, Senior Technical Advocate at Datadog, explores the top things Rust could learn from Java’s maturity: predictable tooling, stable ecosystems, battle-tested observability and a developer experience that does not demand decoding obscure compiler riddles. Along the way he looks at a few places where Java could borrow ideas back from Rust’s approach to safety and modern design. Whether you are a lifelong Java developer or simply Rust-curious, you will leave with a deeper appreciation for both languages and a clearer sense of how their philosophies shape the systems we build today.

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4. “SE Radio 720: Martin Dilger on Understanding Eventsourcing” from Software Engineering Radio

Podcast ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 36s

tldl: Martin Dilger, CEO of Nebulit GmbH and author of the book Understanding Eventsourcing, joins host Giovanni Asproni to unpack the architecture pattern in which you store every event that has ever happened in the system instead of only the current state of your data. The episode begins with the vocabulary around event sourcing and its relationship with event modeling, event streaming and event storming. Martin walks through the pros and cons of the approach, which systems it is most suitable for and where it can get you into trouble. The conversation ends with practical guidance on how to get started with event sourcing in both greenfield and legacy systems.

https://se-radio.net/2026/05/se-radio-720-martin-dilger-on-understanding-eventsourcing/

📆 New talks

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AI Engineer Europe 2026 (21), API Conference London 2026 (1), ATO extra’s: Linux, Kubernetes, Vibe coding, and more - All Things Open 2026 (1), AWS Financial Services Symposium 2026 (8), All Things Open 2026 (1), Android Makers 2026 (15), Conference Talks 2026 (3), Devnexus 2026 (3), Devoxx Poland 2024 (3), Devoxx UK 2026 (49), FOSS Backstage 2026 (1), GOTO 2026 (1), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1), GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025 (2), GeeCON 2025 (2), Hannover Messe 2026 (45), Italian C++ Meetup 2026 (1), JDD 2025 (3), JavaOne 2026 (3), KotlinConf 2025 (1), NDC Security 2026 (18), Node Congress 2026 (1), Papers We Love Tokyo 2026 (1), PyData Santander 2026 (1), QCon London 2026 (1), QCon San Francisco 2025 (2), Smashing Meets Style Sheets 2026 (3), Swift Craft 2025 (1), Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026 (14), YOW! 2025 (1), performance.now() 2025 (1)

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AI Engineering

1. “How we solved Context Management in Agents — Sally-Ann Delucia” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +22k views ⸱ May 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 17s

2. “The Engineering of AI Agents: Context, Harnessing, and Autonomy” from QCon London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +20k views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 02s

3. “Agentic Search for Context Engineering — Leonie Monigatti, Elastic” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +15k views ⸱ May 8, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 13s

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AWS

1. “Rethink Everything: AWS Financial Services 2026 New York City Symposium Keynote” from AWS Financial Services Symposium 2026
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ May 12, 2026 ⸱ 01h 12m 26s

2. “TCS: Moving Intelligent Agents from POC to Production at Scale” from AWS Financial Services Symposium 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ May 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 41s

3. “Ramp - Running at Scale on Amazon ECS-Lessons from an ECS-First Architecture | AWS Events” from AWS Financial Services Symposium 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 10s

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C++

1. “Italian C++ Meetup with Bjarne Stroustrup” from Italian C++ Meetup 2026
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ May 9, 2026 ⸱ 02h 53m 03s

Data Engineering

1. “First PyData in Santander - Antonio Pérez Velasco (@Predictia)” from PyData Santander 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 01h 21m 39s

2. “[VDBUH2026] Loïc Magnette - Finding the Spark: A Career Reset Button” from Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 12s

3. “Spark Declarative Pipelines in Action: Live Avionics Streaming from 40,000 Aircraft Overhead” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 46s

Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “First PyData in Santander - Antonio Pérez Velasco (@Predictia)” from PyData Santander 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 01h 21m 39s

Databases

1. “Corrina Sivak on Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-Value Store [PWL Tokyo]” from Papers We Love Tokyo 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 59s

2. “Complete, Correct, and Confidential: the inherently unhackable database by Jules May” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 07s

3. “Less framework, more web: Rediscovering the Power Of Native JavaScript by Ananya Kittane Yogananda” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 51s

DevOps

1. “CI/CD Is Dead, Agents Need Continuous Compute and Computers — Hugo Santos and Madison Faulkner” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +10k views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 37s

2. “Everything You Need To Know About Agent Observability — Danny Gollapalli & Zubin Koticha, Raindrop” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 25s

3. “State of Serverless DevEx & Observability • Jones Zachariah Noel N • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ May 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 14m 21s

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Java

1. “Native Interoperability with JDK 25 and the FFM API” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ May 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 50s

2. “Post-Mortem JVM Crash Analysis with jcmd” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 24s

3. “Caching for Agentic Java Systems: Internal, Distributed, and Semantic” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 30s

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Kotlin

1. “Beyond LLMs: Kotlin Game AI” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 16s

2. “Building AI Agents in Kotlin • Anton Arhipov • YOW! 2025” from YOW! 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 26s

3. “KotlinCraft Building Resilient, Testable, and Scalable Applications in the Modern Era” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 14s

Leadership

1. “Engineering Leadership in Turbulent Times • Sarah Wells, Pat Kua & Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ May 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 29s

2. “[VDBUH2026] Magda Miu & Alin Miu - Engineering Leadership in the Age of AI” from Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 16s

Misc

1. “Roc & Zig: A Compiler Rewrite Story • Anjana Vakil & Richard Feldman • GOTO 2026” from GOTO 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 30s

2. “Beyond the Hype: 28x Your Engineering Velocity with AI” from QCon San Francisco 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 56s

3. “Beyond the Basics: Production Serverless Patterns for Extreme Scale • Janak Agarwal • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 50s

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Mobile

1. “Beyond LLMs: Kotlin Game AI” from KotlinConf 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 16s

2. “Beyond the Smartphone: Android’s Identity Crisis in 2026 - Android Makers by droidCon 2026” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 9, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 43s

3. “Building AI Agents in Kotlin • Anton Arhipov • YOW! 2025” from YOW! 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 26s

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Python

1. “How Transformers Finally Ate Vision – Isaac Robinson, Roboflow” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ May 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 05s

2. “FLUX, Open Research, and the Future of Visual AI — Stephen Batifol, Black Forest Labs” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ May 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 32s

3. “Playground in Prod: Optimising Agents in Production Environments — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 01h 20m 40s

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React

1. “Proactive or Reactive Security? How to shift away from Incident-Driven Design by Barbara Teruggi” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 11s

2. “A Guide to React Compiler Rendering by Mark Erikson” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 57s

Ruby / Rails

1. “Building Safer AI: Implementing Guardrails for LLM Applications by Roberto Carratala” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 15s

Rust

1. “10 Things Rust Could Learn from Java (and 5 Things Java Should Probably Steal Back) by Scott Gerring” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 35s

Security

1. “Trusting AI with Code: How Secure is AI-written code? - Mackenzie Jackson - NDC Security 2026” from NDC Security 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ May 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 11m 46s

2. “Securing Code in the Age of AI - Simona Toader - NDC Security 2026” from NDC Security 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ May 8, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 01s

3. “Automated Security Testing with OWASP Nettacker - Sam Stepanyan - NDC Security 2026” from NDC Security 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 31s

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Software Architecture

1. “Ramp - Running at Scale on Amazon ECS-Lessons from an ECS-First Architecture | AWS Events” from AWS Financial Services Symposium 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 10s

2. “[VDBUH2026] Julien Topçu - Hexagonal Architecture in Practice” from Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 05s

3. “[VDBUH2026] Victor Botan - Scaling the Future: Lakehouse Architecture and OpenSource Collaboration” from Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 08s

Swift

1. “Comment nos devs iOS ont adopté KMP ? - Android Makers by droidCon 2026” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 7, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 59s

2. “A Practical Guide to Swift Concurrency - Muralidharan Kathiresan - Swift Craft 2025” from Swift Craft 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 09s

3. “Curiosity by Design: What Does a Zoo Have to Do with AI? by Madhura Chaganty” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 14s

Web / Frontend

1. “Devtools, AI, Insights - Vinicius Dallacqua - performance.now() 2025” from performance.now() 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 48s

2. “Less framework, more web: Rediscovering the Power Of Native JavaScript by Ananya Kittane Yogananda” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 51s

3. “Proactive or Reactive Security? How to shift away from Incident-Driven Design by Barbara Teruggi” from Devoxx UK 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 11s

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I’ve been recently reading the second edition of ’s Designing Data-Intensive Applications and it sent me down a rabbit hole. This extra issue is the result of it. I decided to put together a list of distributed systems talks that I think are a must-watch. It initially ended up burried in my notes, but then I thought it’d be nice to share it with you, so here it is!

This is how the talks are organized:

1. Foundational talks and courses that focues on the theory and includes the full Cambridge course from .

2. Company case studies: how Netflix, Cloudflare, Duolingo, … run distributed systems at scale.

3. Distributed systems architecture: event-driven architecutre, storage engines, consensus, cellular architecture, resilience/HA patterns, …

4. Classics: the iconic talks from Joe Armstrong, Leslie Lamport, Martin Fowler, Caitie McCaffrey, Greg Young, and other legends I simply had to include.

Every talk in this list can be found in Tech Talks Weekly Database which is the tool I used to build this compilation. It includes the full archive of conference talks & podcasts published since 2020, with search, filter, and sort. It now costs $7 $5, so roughly a ☕️ a month.

I plan to create a new edition of this issue every year. Subscribe to Tech Talks Weekly to get future editions:

Just before we start, if this format is useful, hit the ❤️ or reply. I’m planning more themed compilations like this one.

I. Foundational talks and courses

1. “Distributed Systems lectures (Martin Kleppmann)” from University of Cambridge, 2020

Course (8 lectures) ⸱ Nov 4, 2020

2. “Distributed Systems - What Can Go Wrong and How to Get It Right by Florian Mair” from Devoxx Belgium 2025

Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Feb 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 32s

3. “The 3 Golden Rules of Distributed Systems” from QCon London 2025

Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Sep 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 50s

4. “The three new fallacies of distributed computing — Thoughtworks Technology Podcast” from Thoughtworks Technology Podcast, 2025

Podcast ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jun 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 55s

5. “Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems - Colin Breck | Craft 2025” from Craft Conference 2025

Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Apr 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 59s

6. “Consistency and Agreements in Distributed Systems - Jimmy Bogard - NDC London 2025” from NDC London 2025

Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Mar 4, 2025 ⸱ 01h 01m 30s

7. “24/7 State Replication” from QCon Plus November 2022

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Sep 4, 2023 ⸱ 00h 49m 44s

2. Company case studies

8. “The Microservice Myth: What Monzo Learned About Scaling a Bank” from QCon San Francisco 2025 (Monzo)

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Sep 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 29s

9. “AWS re:Invent 2024 - How Netflix handles sudden load spikes in the cloud (NFX301)” from AWS re:Invent 2024 (Netflix)

Conference ⸱ +29k views ⸱ Dec 10, 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 10s

10. “Delivering Millions of Notifications within Seconds During the Super Bowl” from InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024 (Duolingo)

Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ Aug 21, 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 49s

11. “Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla” from QCon San Francisco 2023 (OneSignal)

Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 40s

12. “How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems” from QCon San Francisco 2023 (Netflix)

Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Mar 12, 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 32s

13. “Tales of Kafka @Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages” from QCon London 2023 (Cloudflare)

Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Dec 4, 2023 ⸱ 00h 32m 22s

III. Distributed systems architecture

14. “Beyond Pub/Sub - Advanced Messaging Patterns - Poornima Nayar - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026

Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Feb 5, 2026 ⸱ 01h 01m 11s

15. “Top 10 Event Driven Architecture Pitfalls by Victor Rentea” from Devoxx Belgium 2025

Conference ⸱ +9k views ⸱ Oct 9, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 54s

16. “How Event Driven Architectures Go Wrong & How to Fix Them • Matthew Meckes • GOTO 2024” from GOTO EDA Day London 2024

Conference ⸱ +25k views ⸱ Jul 29, 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 55s

17. “Complexity is the Gotcha of Event-driven Architecture • David Boyne • GOTO 2024” from GOTO EDA Day London 2024

Conference ⸱ +76k views ⸱ Jul 2, 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 58s

18. “Kafka for Architects • Ekaterina Gorshkova & Viktor Gamov • GOTO 2026” from GOTO Book Club, 2026

Podcast ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 13s

19. “7+ million Postgres tables | Kailash Nadh | IndiaFOSS 2024 | FOSS United” from IndiaFOSS 2024

Conference ⸱ +42k views ⸱ Dec 3, 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 34s

20. “AWS re:Invent 2025 - DynamoDB: Resilience & lessons from the Oct 2025 service disruption (DAT453)” from AWS re:Invent 2025

Conference ⸱ +18k views ⸱ Dec 7, 2025 ⸱ 00h 59m 11s

21. “Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture” from QCon San Francisco 2023

Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jun 10, 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 38s

22. “”Designing Dope Distributed Systems for Outer Space with High-Fidelity Simulation” by Toby Bell” from Strange Loop 2023

Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Oct 5, 2023 ⸱ 00h 44m 44s

IV. Classics

23. “Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices (Caitie McCaffrey)” from J on the Beach 2017

Conference ⸱ Jun 8, 2017

24. “A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing (Greg Young)” from DDD Europe 2016

Conference ⸱ Jan 28, 2016

25. “Microservices (Martin Fowler)” from GOTO Berlin 2014

Conference ⸱ Dec 8, 2014

26. “Migrating to Cloud Native with Microservices (Adrian Cockcroft)” from GOTO Berlin 2014

Conference ⸱ Dec 8, 2014

27. “Turning the Database Inside-Out with Apache Samza (Martin Kleppmann)” from Strange Loop 2014

Conference ⸱ Sep 18, 2014

28. “Thinking Above the Code (Leslie Lamport)” from Microsoft Build 2014

Conference ⸱ Apr 15, 2014

29. “Call Me Maybe: Carly Rae Jepsen and the Perils of Network Partitions (Kyle Kingsbury / Aphyr)” from RICON 2013

Conference ⸱ Oct 29, 2013

30. “Systems That Run Forever, Self-Heal and Scale (Joe Armstrong)” from Strange Loop 2013

Conference ⸱ +81k views ⸱ Sep 18, 2013 ⸱ 01h 10m 23s

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Almost 20 years ago, Patrick Debois gave a name to a movement that reshaped how we ship software: DevOps. This year, he’s pointing at the next shift, and it might be just as big. What if the artifact we should be versioning, reviewing and observing isn’t the code anymore, but the context we feed our AI agents? You’ll find Patrick’s talk in the 🏆 featured talks.

On a different note, I experimented a little with the structure and included 🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category. I really hope you’ll enjoy the new format!

As always, if you found something useful, hit the ❤️ or leave a comment. Thank you 🙏 and now let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl” from AI Engineer Europe 2026

Conference ⸱ +43k views ⸱ May 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 14s

tldw: Context we supply to the agents is starting to matter as much as code. Yet while code has version control, review, testing, CI/CD and production observability, the prompts, rules and memory that drive agents are still managed ad hoc. Patrick Debois, godfather of DevOps and Product DevRel lead at Tessl, argues context needs its own engineering discipline and introduces the Context Development Lifecycle (Generate, Evaluate, Distribute, Observe).

2. “Keynote: Precision in Type System Design - José Valim | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026

Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 24s

tldw: Four years ago at ElixirConf EU, José Valim, creator of Elixir, announced a plan to develop a type system for the language, divided into three distinct milestones. With the upcoming Elixir v1.20 release, the language is finally completing the first one: type inference across all language constructs. Join this keynote to understand exactly what that means for your daily work and where the project is heading next.

3. “The C4 Model - Beyond The Basics • Simon Brown • YOW! 2025” from YOW! 2025

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 04s

tldw: The C4 model for visualising software architecture keeps gaining traction, with many organisations adopting it as their preferred way to document software architecture. Simon Brown, the model’s creator and author of The C4 Model (O’Reilly), takes you on a tour of the common questions he hears on a regular basis: how to model shared code, microservices, message-driven architectures and more. He also shares how to scale C4 all the way up to an entire system landscape.

4. “The 3 Words That Secretly Drive Developer Productivity & Motivation • Yanina Ledovaya • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025

Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 05s

tldw: What if a decades-old psychology framework holds a useful key to developer productivity? Yanina Ledovaya, DX Research Team Lead at JetBrains and a cognitive psychologist by background, dissects Self-Determination Theory’s three main pillars (autonomy, competence and relatedness) to show how they shape satisfaction, efficiency and communication on software teams. This talk shares practical theoretical framework with strategies grounded in research that boost satisfaction and productivity in your team / organization.

5. “Why Duolingo Abandoned ECS for Kubernetes: Lessons from the Trenches” from InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025

Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ May 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 06s

tldw: Duolingo manages 500+ microservices for 128M users. So why risk moving stable, working infrastructure from AWS ECS to Kubernetes? Franka Passing, Senior Platform Engineer at Duolingo, delivers a Report from the Trenches on their massive EKS migration: the move to Blue-Green deployments and ephemeral environments, the shift to IPv6-only pods, the human element of recency bias during outages and how they automated validation to keep 99.9% reliability through the transition.

6. “30 Years in Tech: Why Your Career Ladder is Actually a Squiggle” from QCon London 2025

Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 58s

tldw: The path to Principal Engineer is not a straight line: it is a broken comb. After nearly 30 years in software engineering, Sophie Weston, Principal Engineer at ClearBank and co-organizer of DevOpsDays London, reveals why deep technical expertise is only the baseline for leadership. Whether you are aiming for a Principal role or leading a department, this talk shows how to navigate the Engineer-Manager Pendulum and why the most valuable leadership skills often come from outside the IDE.

7. “AI Literacy for Developers: Thinking Clearly While AI Writes the Code” from JAX London 2025

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 05s

tldw: For decades, software engineering literacy meant mastering languages, frameworks and the mechanics of writing code. Russ Miles, author of Antifragile Software and CEO of ChaosIQ, argues those skills are still required but there is a shift in the value developers now bring: thinking clearly about systems, intent, constraints and feedback loops.

8. “The Human Scalability Problem: Why Your Teams Don’t Scale Like Your Code” from QCon San Francisco 2025

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 4, 2026

tldw: While systems scale, human cooperation often breaks down under communication overload and lost context. Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg, business psychologist and co-founder of Bravely, dives into the human bottlenecks of hyper-growth and shares some nice tools for behavioral scalability: communication architecture and engineering trust. You will walk away with really interesting strategies to help engineering leaders maintain high-performing, autonomous teams without sacrificing speed or culture.

9. “The Future of Code Review: Stop Reviewing Line-by-Line, Start Governing AI Agents” from Tech Lead Journal

Podcast ⸱ May 4, 2026 ⸱ 01h 15m 27s

tldl: What does code review mean when AI writes most of the code? The answer is not to review more carefully: it is a fundamentally different process built around rules, agents and governance rather than diffs and comments. Itamar Friedman, founder and CEO of Qodo.ai, traces the evolution of code review across generations, explains why traditional static analysis is no longer sufficient and presents what a modern quality and governance layer looks like. He also introduces the concept of “shift up” (extending quality checks into the planning phase so technical product managers can contribute directly to shipping features) and explains how teams can move from vibe coding to a more viable development.

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📆 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.

AI Coding Summit 2026 (1), AI Engineer Europe 2026 (22), Android Makers 2026 (2), Conference Talks 2026 (5), Devoxx Poland 2024 (3), ElixirConf EU 2026 (5), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1), GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025 (1), GeeCON 2025 (3), InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 (1), JAX London 2025 (2), JCON Europe 2026 (2), JavaOne 2026 (2), KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (1), NDC Security 2026 (1), PyData Boston 2025 (2), QCon AI New York 2025 (1), QCon London 2025 (1), QCon San Francisco 2025 (3), Spring I/O 2026 (10), Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 (7), YOW! 2025 (2)

📆 New podcasts

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

Go to 📆 New podcasts

📈 Most-watched talks

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

Go to 📈 Most-watched

🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

This issue’s talks, sorted by view count and organized by topic.

AI Engineering

1. “Everything I Learned Training Frontier Small Models — Maxime Labonne, Liquid AI” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +50k views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 13s

2. “Context Is the New Code — Patrick Debois, Tessl” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +43k views ⸱ May 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 14s

3. “Codex and Subagents — Vaibhav Srivastav & Katia Gil Guzman, OpenAI” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +22k views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 01m 59s

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AWS

1. “Serverless Agents: Real-World Tooling with Strands SDK, MCP & AWS • Akshatha Laxmi • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 21s

BEAM

1. “Update from the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation - Dan Janowski | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 11m 50s

Data Engineering

1. “What’s new in Spring for Apache Kafka 4? by Tim van Baarsen @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 06s

2. “Abhishek Murthy, Evans Addo - Classifying Time Series with Foundation Models (PyData Boston)” from PyData Boston 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 38s

3. “Julia Mertens - Large Language Models can Hallucinate Speaker Transitions (PyData Boston)” from PyData Boston 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 35s

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Data Science / Machine Learning

1. “Abhishek Murthy, Evans Addo - Classifying Time Series with Foundation Models (PyData Boston)” from PyData Boston 2025
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 38s

2. “Julia Mertens - Large Language Models can Hallucinate Speaker Transitions (PyData Boston)” from PyData Boston 2025
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 35s

DevOps

1. “I Can See Clearly Now: Observability of JVM & Spring Boot 2-3-4 apps @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 49s

Elixir

1. “Keynote: Precision in Type System Design - José Valim | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 24s

2. “Keynote: DurableServer: Always Running Somewhere - Chris McCord | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 51s

3. “Update from the Phoenix Team - Steffen Deusch | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 12s

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Java

1. “Bootiful Spring Boot 4 by Josh Long @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +23k views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 32s

2. “Claude Code for Spring Developers by Thomas Schilling @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +10k views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 55s

3. “The JDK Client Desktop : 2026 and Still Swinging” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ May 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 52s

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Kotlin

1. “Supercharge Spring Boot Tests with Kotlin DSL Power by Urs Peter @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 22s

Kubernetes

1. “Why Duolingo Abandoned ECS for Kubernetes: Lessons from the Trenches” from InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ May 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 06s

Misc

1. “The C4 Model - Beyond The Basics • Simon Brown • YOW! 2025” from YOW! 2025
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ May 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 04s

2. “The 3 Words That Secretly Drive Developer Productivity & Motivation • Yanina Ledovaya • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 05s

3. “Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform for Both Predictive and... F. Spolti & J. Lee” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 40s

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Mobile

1. “Supercharge Spring Boot Tests with Kotlin DSL Power by Urs Peter @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 22s

2. “Thriving in an AI era 🔮 - Android Makers by droidCon 2026” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 55s

3. “What’s new in Android Studio’s AI Agent? - Android Makers by droidCon 2026” from Android Makers 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 6, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 39s

React

1. “Reza Bar - Reactivity in Vue Thinking in Signals” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 49s

2. “Signals vs React Hooks: Battle for Clean Code • Henry Lagarde, Estelle Thou • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 30s

Ruby / Rails

1. “Agent-Agnostic Guardrails: Universal Java Code Quality with AGENTS.MD and Static Analysis” from JavaOne 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ May 5, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 03s

Security

1. “AppSec Security: The SDLC in the age of agentic - Jon Mccoy - NDC Security 2026” from NDC Security 2026
   Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ May 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 02s

2. “SerKo Vincent Ngai - When Tree Shaking Fails: Security Risks in Nuxt & Vue” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 56s

3. “Ramona Schwering Vue tiful Defense Let’s draw Security” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 09s

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Software Architecture

1. “Keynote: Precision in Type System Design - José Valim | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 24s

2. “Beyond Orchestration: An Open Source Architecture for Agentic Systems - Ashok Prakash” from Conference Talks 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 4, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 01s

3. “GeeCON 2025: Natan Silnitsky - Reinventing Microservices: Efficiency and Innovation with Single-RunT” from GeeCON 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ May 3, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 05s

Vue

1. “Reza Bar - Reactivity in Vue Thinking in Signals” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 49s

2. “Julien Huang - Stop making these Nuxt & Vue mistakes: introducing @nuxt/hints 1.0” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 09s

3. “SerKo Vincent Ngai - When Tree Shaking Fails: Security Risks in Nuxt & Vue” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 56s

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Web / Frontend

1. “Reza Bar - Reactivity in Vue Thinking in Signals” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 49s

2. “Julien Huang - Stop making these Nuxt & Vue mistakes: introducing @nuxt/hints 1.0” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ May 2, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 09s

3. “SerKo Vincent Ngai - When Tree Shaking Fails: Security Risks in Nuxt & Vue” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ May 1, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 56s

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Web Assembly

1. “WebAssembly and the Future of the JVM Ecosystem by Andrea Peruffo @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 49s

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🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “”Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever” — Matt Pocock” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +407k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 26s

   tldw: AI coding tools are overhyped and powerful at the same time. Used well they’re extraordinary; used badly they’ll bury you in tech debt faster than any human team could. After 18 months teaching developers to build with AI agents, Matt Pocock, creator of Total TypeScript, has watched the same patterns emerge: the devs who succeed are the ones who fall back on engineering fundamentals. In this talk he walks through the iterative process his students use to ship high-quality apps with agent swarms and explains why decades-old principles like ubiquitous language, vertical slices, TDD and deep modules now matter more than ever.

2. “Jakub Andrzejewski, Evan You - Panel: Beyond The Vibe: Code Quality First” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Apr 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 00s

   tldw: This Vue.js Amsterdam 2026 panel digs into modern frontend engineering, the tradeoffs developers face today and what shifts when AI enters the mainstream. Jakub Andrzejewski, Senior Developer Advocate at Vue Storefront, joins Vue creator Evan You, Debbie O’Brien, Elise Patrikainen and Nuxt Head of Framework Daniel Roe to focus on what software quality really means in the age of AI. They tackle how to keep code maintainable when vibes alone aren’t enough.

3. “GeeCON 2025: Konrad Szałkowski - Organizing chaos - Structured Concurrency” from GeeCON 2025
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 46s

   tldw: When there’s order in our world it’s much easier to navigate, and programmers rediscover this truth every few years. Java 21 gave us virtual threads with the slogan ‘create, start, forget’, but we all know what happens in a kids’ room after a birthday party: chaos. Konrad Szałkowski, a frequent speaker on distributed systems and concurrency, walks through Structured Concurrency, the brand-new API designed to organize the mess. He explains why it works and why it was created, then shows the code in action.

4. “MCP = Mega Context Problem - Matt Carey” from AI Engineer Europe 2026
   Conference ⸱ +17k views ⸱ Apr 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 42s

   tldw: The best MCP server is the one you didn’t have to build. Cloudflare’s REST OpenAPI spec is over 2.3 million tokens, so when teams started building MCP servers they cherry-picked endpoints and shipped a separate service covering a fraction of the API. Matt Carey, AI Engineer on the Agents team at Cloudflare, argues we got it all wrong: the context limit is an agent problem, not an MCP problem. In this talk he walks through techniques the team has been exploring like code mode and tool search to expose complete APIs to agents through MCP, plus work on the MCP TypeScript SDK to make stateless servers the default.

5. “Anthropic Mythos: Hype, reality and the actual security implications” from ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast
   Podcast ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 50s

   tldl: Anthropic Mythos drew huge attention when it launched in mid-April this year, framed as an unprecedented threat to global software. But look closely and it starts to feel like an effective product launch as much as a story about the real security risks of today’s AI models. In this episode, new host Nate Schutta is joined by Chris Kramer to discuss Anthropic Mythos and Project Glasswing, unpacking what’s hype and what software developers, security professionals or other technologists should actually pay attention to.

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6. “AI Is Changing Data Engineering Fast” from Data Engineering Central Podcast
   Podcast ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 56m 58s

   tldl: The hosts dig into uncomfortable truths: AI can write code but cannot replace thinking, while most engineers focus too much on tools and not enough on problem-solving or system design.

7. “Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025 and a Hint for 2026 - James Kettle - ASW #380” from Application Security Weekly
   Podcast ⸱ Apr 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 55s

   tldl: PortSwigger’s list of web hacking techniques is a long-running initiative in the web hacking community (it’s 19th edition this year!). James Kettle, Director of Research at PortSwigger, shares his thoughts on the 2025 entries and how he expects LLMs and agents to reshape next year’s list. He also gives a peek into his own blackbox research with LLMs, hinting at what he’ll be presenting at Black Hat USA this summer.

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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.

1. AI Engineer Europe 2026 (16)

2. Beam College 2026 (2)

3. Code BEAM Europe 2025 (1)

4. Conf42 Cloud 2026 (28)

5. Conference Talks 2026 (7)

6. DDD Europe 2025 (1)

7. Devoxx Poland 2024 (3)

8. GOTO 2026 (2)

9. GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1)

10. GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025 (1)

11. GeeCON 2025 (3)

12. InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 (1)

13. JavaOne 2026 (3)

14. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (9)

15. Meeting C++ 2025 (1)

16. Spring I/O 2026 (3)

17. Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 (6)

18. YOW! 2025 (1)