💥 Tech Talks Weekly #22

2024-07-11: Featuring all the newly uploaded talks from QCon, NDC Sydney, JCON Europe, JAX London and many more!

Jul 11, 2024

Happy Thursday 👋

Welcome to the 22. issue of Tech Talks Weekly! This time, we have plenty of new talks from 13 conferences including QCon, NDC Sydney, JCON Europe, JAX London and many more!

There is one presentation that stands out though.

Gergely Orosz

, the author of The Pragmatic Engineer
, provided an insightful talk called “What’s Old is New Again” about the current state of the tech industry, shedding light on how the future might look. I highly recommend to watch. There’s also a Q&A uploaded as a separate video.

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🏆 Featured talks of the week

Here are the must-watch talks uploaded since the last issue:

"The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed in 2 years, why, and what is next" ⸱ +18k views ⸱ Jul 09, 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 41s
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future? I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is New Again,” which was the keynote of the Craft Conference in May 2024.
"Delivering Millions of Notifications within Seconds During the Super Bowl" ⸱ Duolingo ⸱ Jul 09, 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 49s
Zhen Zhou discusses how they built/test an on-demand notification system, what it takes to manage cloud resources/site-reliability at the same time, and how to mitigate reliability issues.
"HTMX: Why You Don't Always Need a SPA Framework - Duncan Hunter - NDC Sydney 2024" ⸱ +3k views ⸱ 07 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 57m 16s
The HTMX library allows you to access modern browser features directly from HTML rather than using JavaScript or a framework like React, Angular or Vue. We'll discuss a Hypermedia Driven Application (HDA) architecture, a new/old approach to building web applications based on the server returning HTML vs JSON that can help you avoid the complexity and overhead of more complex frameworks. By the end of this talk, you'll better understand when and why you might choose HTMX over a single page app for your next web app.

📆 New uploads

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

1. QCon San Francisco 2023

"Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer" ⸱ Nubank ⸱ Jul 10, 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 41s
Caleb Hyde discusses his career progression and regressions, as well the context he used to figure out what to work on and whom to work with, distilling a framework which to utilize in one’s own work.
"Delivering Millions of Notifications within Seconds During the Super Bowl" ⸱ Duolingo ⸱ Jul 09, 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 49s
Zhen Zhou discusses how they built/test an on-demand notification system, what it takes to manage cloud resources/site-reliability at the same time, and how to mitigate reliability issues.
"Breaking the Ceiling: Scaling Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level" ⸱ Jul 08, 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 03s
Thiago Ghisi discusses what defines the Staff-Plus level, expectations across companies, approaches for high-performing Staff-Plus Engineers, strategies for scaling, and examples of "Staff Projects".