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Happy Friday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #116!

With 231+ new talks and 53+ new podcasts, there’s a lot to catch up. Let’s jump right in!

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🏆 Featured this week

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

1. “Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C#”

Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 01h 14m 15s

tldw: Union types are coming to C#! Unions model closed sets of data shapes, as commonly seen in e.g. wire protocols. Mads and Dustin explore the clean expression of intent and the confidence and elegance that unions lend to consuming code. We'll also take a look at other recent and upcoming C# features, such as extension members and closed classes. You will also learn what's coming to the next version of C#, how to express closed sets of types with unions, and how to add new members to existing types with extension members.

2. “Four dimensions of burnout: An anti-burnout framework for the AI era” from LDX3 London 2026

Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 58s

tldw: By the time you can clearly see the wave, you are often already inside it, and burnout works the same way: we think we will recognize it early and just step away, but usually we are already in it. Dominika Rogala, founder and leadership coach at Good Job Coffee, opens the talk with that 48% of employees globally reporting burnout right now and rates among managers running up to 60%, then shares a three step anti-burnout framework around four dimensions: exhaustion, emotional distance, reduced efficacy and the identity gap.

3. “Navigating waters of background jobs and queues in Python as of 2026 - Sebastian Buczyński” from EuroPython 2026

Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 20s

tldw: Should you use Kafka or RabbitMQ? Is Celery still alive and kicking in 2026, or has Temporal taken over the world while we weren’t watching? Sebastian Buczynski, author of Implementing the Clean Architecture and a software architect at Sauce Labs, provides a comprehensive comparison of the modern Python ecosystem: where each tool shines, how they perform under pressure and crucially when a specific tool is a poor match and should be avoided. Using two real-world case studies he showcases the capabilities of each library, and you walk out with a decision chart equipped to choose the perfect stack for your next project.

4. “How much do you really need to know about Databases? - Karen Jex” from EuroPython 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 13s

tldw: As a developer you probably just want the database to quietly do its thing in the background so you can concentrate on coding. That seems like a reasonable request, but the world of databases is changing: the traditional DBA role is becoming less common and developers are increasingly expected to manage their own databases. Karen Jex, senior solutions architect at Crunchy Data and a database specialist for over 25 years, explores the minimum you actually do need to know and where to find more information or help when you need it. You should come away reassured that although it helps to have a smattering of database knowledge, you don’t need to be a database expert.

5. “The hidden cost of vibe coding - Sebastian Burzyński” from EuroPython 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 52s

tldw: The first words the client said were that he didn’t trust anything that happened right after he logged into his own application. Sebastian Burzynski, CTO and cloud architect at BlueRider Software, uses that production case study to show how, starting from access to a single project, he was able to traverse service boundaries and gain visibility into multiple cloud environments and internal repositories across both AWS and GCP. The root cause was not a single vulnerability but a chain of small, AI-generated decisions: overly broad permissions, copied infrastructure patterns, missing ownership boundaries and unreviewed assumptions propagated across services. He closes on a common misconception, that a 50% increase in coding speed does not translate into 50% faster product delivery, and without governance the opposite is often true.

6. “AI Slop to AI Gold: Building Codebases That Last - Dan Jones” from EuroPython 2026

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 56s

tldw: AI can generate Python faster than ever before. It can also generate an astonishing amount of code that nobody wants to maintain, and that is not a new problem: every generation of software tooling has made writing code cheaper while increasing the cost of poor engineering. Dan Jones, a software engineer at Optiver building production critical systems in Python, argues that some Python features and architectural patterns don’t just catch bugs, they make them difficult to write in the first place. Those ideas weren’t designed for AI, but they may be exactly what AI needs: AI hasn’t changed what good software engineering looks like, it’s made good software engineering impossible to ignore.

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7. “DOP 364: How to Avoid Burnout as a Leader” from DevOps Paradox

Podcast ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 03s

tldl: Your CEO comes back from a leadership offsite talking about burnout-proof leadership and AI transformation at scale, and two weeks later you’re working through lunch, you’re working through dinner and Slack never stops. Deployment frequency is up. Incidents are up worse, so who was that program actually protecting? Dr. Victoria Mensch, founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley Executive Academy and a psychologist who bridges clinical psychology with strategic leadership, talks about what really goes on at those offsites and why Nokia, BlackBerry and Blockbuster all saw it coming anyway.

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/how-to-avoid-burnout-as-a-leader-364/

8. “Joanna Wang: Code Is Cheap Now; Developers Still Valuable” from Ruby on Rails

Podcast ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:42:38

tldl: Joanna Wang is a senior software engineer at Sixfold. She came to Ruby on Rails after working across Java, Go, Python and Node. Robby Russell and Joanna get into why the homegrown orchestration they built on state machines and callbacks turned brittle, what moving to Hatchet changed and the tradeoffs of leaning on a gem that is no longer maintained. They also talk about what happened when the team went fully agentic and why Rails magic is easier to understand when an agent can trace it for you.

9. “Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won’t Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg” from The Peterman Pod

Podcast ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 01h 05m 57s

tldl: Anders Hejlsberg is the creator of TypeScript and C#, and Ryan Peterman asks him how the TypeScript compiler got 10x faster through a rewrite in Go and what he makes of how AI has impacted software engineering. The conversation goes from why you’d write a compiler in JavaScript in the first place, through using LLMs for large migrations, to what it actually takes to build a programming language and whether there will be fewer languages in ten years. He closes on why fast tooling matters more now, his AI software engineering predictions and the advice he would give his younger self.

10. “Mark Seemann: AI Code Quality - Episode 415” from Azure DevOps Podcast

Podcast ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 43s

tldl: Mark Seemann, best known for Code That Fits in Your Head and his long-running ploeh blog, returns to the show after Episode 189 to discuss AI code quality. The conversation goes through what GitClear’s research on the AI code quality maintainability gap actually shows, and what happens to maintainability when code is generated faster than anyone can review it. It is a question he is well placed to answer, having spent years writing about software architecture, test-driven development and functional programming.

https://aidevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/mark-seemann-ai-code-quality-episode-415

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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.

A Virtual MCP Community Event for AI Builders (9), AI in Healthcare @ AI Engineer (10), AIE World’s Fair 2026 Complete Playlist (7), ArgoCon Japan 2026 (6), CityJS London 2026 (5), Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026 (1), ElixirConf EU 2026 (1), EuroPython 2026 (102), Generative Media: AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 (2), JCON EUROPE 2026 (4), JSNation 2026 (1), KeycloakCon Japan 2026 (7), LDX3 London 2026 (4), YOW! 2025 (1)

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📆 New podcasts

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

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📈 Most-watched talks

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

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🗄️ Talks and podcasts by category

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

AI Engineering

1. “How to Kill the Code Review — Ankit Jain, Aviator”
   Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 26s

2. “Why Your Enterprise Tech Stack Isn’t Ready for AI Agents — Christopher Lovejoy & Saul Howard” from AI in Healthcare @ AI Engineer
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 15s

3. “Context Engineering in 2026 — Louis-François Bouchard, Omar Solano & Samridhi Vaid, Towards AI” from AIE World’s Fair 2026 Complete Playlist
   Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 01h 03m 26s

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AWS

1. “FSI Sydney 2026: What Comes Next: Six Trends Defining the Agentic AI Era”
   Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 55s

2. “Agentic customers, agentic workers and agentic operations are here: are financial services ready?”
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 38s

3. “FSI Sydney 2026: Keynote – Rethink Everything”
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 01h 16m 43s

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BEAM

1. “Low Power Wireless Sensors with AtomVM - Davide Bettio | Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026” from Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 45s

C# / .NET

1. “Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C#”
   Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 01h 14m 15s

2. “Explore the Future of ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11”
   Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 01h 17m 15s

3. “Modernizing .NET Applications”
   Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 01h 14m 44s

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Databases

1. “How much do you really need to know about Databases? - Karen Jex” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 13s

DevOps

1. “The Backend Immune System - Rich Errors, Ktor Observability and Safe Local Remediation. Meike Hammer”
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 56s

2. “Unlock Agent Autonomy: The Runtime for AI-Native Systems — Tushar Jain, Docker”
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 50s

3. “Stop firefighting: practical observability for Python APIs, workers & jobs - Daria Korsakova” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 41s

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Django

1. “Django’s Magic, FastAPI’s Reality: Test Isolation at Scale - Maciej Sobczak” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 34s

2. “I Am a Sucker for Conventions. Why Django’s Defaults Work, Until They Don’t - David Vaz” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 47s

3. “Faster Django ORM queries for everybody - Jan Smitka” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 13s

Elixir

1. “The Everything App - Lars Wikman | ElixirConf EU 2026” from ElixirConf EU 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 40m 07s

Java

1. “Go Get It, with Kotlin Lessons Learned Evolving Uber’s Java Backend | Ryan Ulep”
   Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 08s

2. “Livecoding: Creating Beautiful Java Code With LLM and Agents | Adam Bien (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 21s

3. “Caching and Beyond - Smarter Data Processing with Java | Christian Kuemmel (EN)” from JCON EUROPE 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 59s

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Kotlin

1. “SwiftPM support for Kotlin Multiplatform | Timofey Solonin”
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 00s

2. “Go Get It, with Kotlin Lessons Learned Evolving Uber’s Java Backend | Ryan Ulep”
   Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 08s

Kubernetes

1. “Lightning Talk: Using Keycloak Authorization Service for Kubernetes Service-to-Service… H. Özkan” from KeycloakCon Japan 2026
   Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 44s

2. “MCPIdentity: Keyless MCP Agent Authentication Patterns on Kubernetes With Keycloak… M. Dayıoğlu” from KeycloakCon Japan 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 18s

3. “Lightning Talk: What Is New and Coming for Managing Cloud Native Identities in… A. Schwartz” from KeycloakCon Japan 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 20s

Leadership

1. “Four dimensions of burnout: An anti-burnout framework for the AI era” from LDX3 London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 58s

2. “Prototyping as Leadership: How a CTO Ships with AI Agents — Hursh Agrawal, The Browser Company”
   Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 18s

3. “AI in the trenches: Real-world wins without breaking things” from LDX3 London 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Aug 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 08s

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Misc

1. “KMP at Scale in Kuaishou Super App for over 700M users | Omico Wang”
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 13m 51s

2. “All platforms are unique but some platforms are more unique than others | Konstantin Tskhovrebov”
   Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 39s

3. “How we write unit test in my team in Openchip - Jan Koprowski” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 30m 12s

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Mobile

1. “SwiftPM support for Kotlin Multiplatform | Timofey Solonin”
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 00s

2. “Go Get It, with Kotlin Lessons Learned Evolving Uber’s Java Backend | Ryan Ulep”
   Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 08s

3. “Supporting Android and iOS in your Python package - Malcolm Smith” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 19s

Python

1. “Python on Serverless: Strategies for Peak Performance - Alejandro Cabello Jiménez” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 31s

2. “Refactor, Optimize, and Test: Crafting Cleaner Python Code - Mohamed Elmaghraby” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 15s

3. “Rethinking AsyncIO from scratch for free-threaded Python - Giovanni Barillari” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 20s

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React

1. “The Next Medium: Why Real-Time Interactive Video Changes Everything — Ahmed Ahres, Reactor” from Generative Media: AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 30s

2. “O11y: The math you miss | Uma Mukkara | Conf42 Remix 2026”
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 21s

3. “Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid // Erik Rasmussen” from CityJS London 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 42s

Ruby / Rails

1. “Guardrails First: Engineering Member-Facing Health AI — Rashi Agrawal, Hinge Health” from AI in Healthcare @ AI Engineer
   Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 49s

Rust

1. “Rust for High Performance Computing (HPC) in Python - Cheuk Ting Ho” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 41s

Security

1. “Security Firewall for Agents — Ryan Dahl, Deno”
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 19m 06s

2. “Securing Non-Human Identities: A Defense-in-Depth Blueprint for AI Agents - Tatsuya Yano” from KeycloakCon Japan 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 31s

3. “MCPIdentity: Keyless MCP Agent Authentication Patterns on Kubernetes With Keycloak… M. Dayıoğlu” from KeycloakCon Japan 2026
   Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 18s

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Software Architecture

1. “Modern Enterprise Architecture: Architecting for Outcomes • Simon Rohrer • GOTO 2025”
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 53s

2. “The Backend Immune System - Rich Errors, Ktor Observability and Safe Local Remediation. Meike Hammer”
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 56s

3. “Go Get It, with Kotlin Lessons Learned Evolving Uber’s Java Backend | Ryan Ulep”
   Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Aug 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 08s

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Swift

1. “SwiftPM support for Kotlin Multiplatform | Timofey Solonin”
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 00s

2. “Supporting Android and iOS in your Python package - Malcolm Smith” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 24m 19s

Web / Frontend

1. “The Next Medium: Why Real-Time Interactive Video Changes Everything — Ahmed Ahres, Reactor” from Generative Media: AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
   Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 30s

2. “The New Node.js: Built-in Batteries and the Road Ahead // Matteo Collina” from CityJS London 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 05s

3. “JavaScript The Best Part // Douglas Crockford” from CityJS London 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 01s

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Web Assembly

1. “Python Everywhere: The State of Python on WebAssembly - Hood Chatham, Gyeongjae Choi” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 40s

2. “Python Games in the Browser: Teaching with WebAssembly - Farhaan Bukhsh” from EuroPython 2026
   Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Aug 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 58s

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