💥 Issue 86

Featuring 12 talks of the week you need to be aware of

Dec 10, 2025

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

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

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

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

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🏆 Featured this week

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

“AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels”
Conference ⸱ +467k views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 16m 18s
tldw: Werner Vogels’s final keynote focusing on whether “will AI will take my job”. Very interesting, I highly recommend it to watch.
“AI paradox: faster coding, slower shipping | by
Addy Osmani

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

Podcast ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 09m 25s
tldl: Listen to learn how to build five beginner friendly FastAPI apps in a weekend with clear steps, simple example code and concrete project ideas you can finish.
“All Features in Java 26 - Inside Java Newscast #102”
Podcast ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 11m 05s
tldl: HTTP/3, AOT caching with any GC, G1 performance gains, primitive patterns, structured concurrency and a bunch of smaller changes.

📈 The Most Watched This Week

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

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

📆 New talks

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

📆 New podcasts

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

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

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