💥 Tech Talks Weekly #83

... With 12 featured talks & podcasts!

Nov 20, 2025

Happy Thursday 👋 and warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #83!

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Now, onto this week’s issue: we’ve got 131 talks from 30 conferences and 80 new podcast episodes!

That means there is plenty of really good content on the list this week, so get ready!

As announced earlier this week, I’m introducing a new section called “📈 The Most-Watched This Week.” It contains the talks that are getting the most attention right now, as ranked by views/publishing time, so you’ll instantly know what the community is or will soon be talking about. Summary is also included!

From now on, the new structure looks as follows:

🏆 Featured this week (talks & podcasts)
📈 The Most Watched This Week
📆 New talks
📆 New podcasts

I hope you like it!

Hit the ❤️ if you found at least one talk/podcast worth watching or leave a comment. It helps more readers discover Tech Talks Weekly.

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Now, let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured this week

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

“How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler” from The Pragmatic Engineer
Podcast ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 01h 48m 53s
tldl: Martin Fowler explains how AI is making coding non deterministic, where LLMs actually help tame legacy and refactoring, and why rigorous testing plus deterministic tooling is still our best bet. Definitely worth listening to.
“Architect mindset: how to pass System Design Interview • Oleksandr Ivanov • Devoxx Poland 2024”
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Nov 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 00m 00s
tldw: This talk gives a practical, research based playbook for succeeding in system design interviews, from generating solution options to steering tradeoff discussions and clearly justifying decisions.
“Netflix’s Engineering Culture” from The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
Podcast ⸱ Nov 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 59m 35s
tldl: See what it really means to be “unusually responsible”, how teams make decisions without layers of approval, build and guardrail Live at global scale, learn from outages, and balance hiring and AI trade-offs.
“The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages - Kevlin Henney - ACCU 2025”
Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Nov 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 00m 00s
tldw: See how programming languages encode ways of thinking, why progress feels slow, and how trends like FOSS and LLMs might reshape code.
“Algorithms Demystified - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 00m 00s
tldw: This talk makes core algorithms intuitive, shows where they actually apply in real projects from networks to autocorrect, and is worth watching if you want to stop freezing when someone says “use Dijkstra”.
“Micro-Frontends: Stop Building a Distributed Monolith! (Scale with Conway’s Law)”
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Nov 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 00m 00s
tldw: Why you’re often just assembling libraries, why reusability is a form of coupling, and how a decisions framework plus a Frontend Discovery Service can finally enable independent deploys and canary releases, and it’s worth watching.
“What’s new in AWS Lambda - Julian Wood”
Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Nov 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 00m 00s
tldw: Nice demo of new features like remote debugging, DX improvements, and real-world scaling tricks, making this a must-watch if you run or build serverless systems.
“#239 - Taming Your Technical Debt: Mastering the Trade-Off Problem - Andrew Brown” from Tech Lead Journal
Podcast ⸱ Nov 17, 2025 ⸱ 01h 06m 29s
tldl: Technical debt isn’t mainly a coding problem but a trade-off tangled in human bias and incentives; watch for the Technical Debt Onion, Ulysses contracts, and practical systems-thinking tactics I think will be helpful.
“Why Postgres? and why now? with Claire Giordano” from Hanselminutes
Podcast ⸱ Nov 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 36m 11s
tldl: Postgres quietly became the world’s favorite database, and this talk breaks down how its design and open-source community keep it winning in the age of AI and hyperscale data, worth a watch.
“What’s Coming in TypeScript 6/7 | Daniel Rosenwasser | Jake Bailey | Ep 43B” from TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers
Podcast ⸱ Nov 13, 2025 ⸱ 01h 09m 01s
tldl: TypeScript 6 and 7 push smarter defaults, make ES2024 the default target, tighten DOM typings, and introduce a new compiler API with a Go port in progress, module resolution, WASM embedding, and the real performance tradeoffs you should be aware of.
“Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - Jerry Nixon - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 00m 00s
tldw: See the common modern patterns for scalability, security, integration, and maintainability.
“The New Realities of SaaS: Why Building is Harder Than Ever - Luis Rubiera - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Nov 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 00m 00s
tldw: Creating SaaS today is far more than shipping features; this talk explains the operational, legal, and geopolitical realities you must handle to actually launch and scale in 2025.

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📈 The Most Watched This Week

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

“Concept-based Generic Programming - Bjarne Stroustrup - CppCon 2025” ⸱ +15k views ⸱ Nov 14, 2025 ⸱ 01h 23m 29s
tldw: The designer of C++ lays out concept-based generic programming with practical examples, including a tiny type system that prevents narrowing and enforces range checks, and walks through design rationale, relations to OOP, and C++26 static reflection, worth watching if you write generic C++.
“Algorithms Demystified - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2025” ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 46s
tldw: This talk makes core algorithms intuitive, shows where they actually apply in real projects from networks to autocorrect, and is worth watching if you want to stop freezing when someone says “use Dijkstra”.
“Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - Jerry Nixon - NDC Copenhagen 2025” ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 01h 03m 07s
tldw: See the common modern patterns for scalability, security, integration, and maintainability.
“Implement the C++ Standard Library: Design, Optimisations, Testing while Implementing Libc++” ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Nov 18, 2025 ⸱ 01h 01m 07s
tldw: A practical tour of libc++ showing space packing tricks, wait and iterator optimisations, and rigorous testing techniques that’s worth watching if you care about squeezing performance and correctness out of C++ standard library code.
“Off-CPU Profiling & Latency Diagnostics in Java #JVMLS” ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Nov 18, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 22s
tldw: If you’re chasing mysterious Java latency spikes, watch this talk where a tool uses Java instrumentation and Linux uprobe to break each transaction into on-CPU time, scheduling delay, I/O wait and more so you can finally pin down slow requests, virtual thread oddities, and GC pauses.
“Misusing Const for Fn and Profit - Tristram Oaten | EuroRust 2025” ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 33s
tldw: Watch this deep dive into const, macros and zero cost abstractions to learn how to shift heavy lifting into Rust’s compile time for safer, faster code and surprising production tricks.
“Demystifying authentication in ASP.NET Core - Tore Nestenius - NDC Copenhagen 2025” ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 29s
tldw: A deep dive into how authentication actually works in ASP.NET Core, covering schemes, handlers, ClaimsPrincipal, claims, challenges and session cookies, worth watching if you build web apps that need to be secure.

📆 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.