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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!

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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

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), 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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]]><![CDATA[🏆 30 Best Distributed Systems Talks of All Time]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/30-best-distributed-systems-talkshttps://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/30-best-distributed-systems-talksTue, 12 May 2026 19:15:21 GMTHappy Tuesday 👋 and a warm welcome to another special edition of Tech Talks Weekly!

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.

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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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]]><![CDATA[Issue 103: 🗄️ Categories are here!]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-103https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-103Wed, 06 May 2026 12:24:50 GMTHappy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #103!

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!

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🏆 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

→ See more Elixir talks on Tech Talks Weekly Plus

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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]]><![CDATA[Issue 102: Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever, Beyond The Vibe: Code Quality First, Structured Concurrency, Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-102https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-102Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:27:36 GMTHappy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #102!

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  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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  1. “Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner” from AIE Europe 2026
    Conference ⸱ +110k views ⸱ Apr 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 25s

    tldw: All Mario Zechner wanted was a modest coding agent that was truly his own. Then Peter Steinberger decided to make it the agentic core of OpenClaw, and suddenly pi became collateral. In this talk the creator of libGDX explains why and how he built pi, reflects on how agents are destroying OSS and delivers a plea to slow “the f***” down.

  2. “State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger” from AIE Europe 2026
    Conference ⸱ +102k views ⸱ Apr 17, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 12s

    tldw: Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, gives the five month update on what he calls the fastest growing open source project in history. He covers what it’s really like to maintain it: security, community, misinformation and the burden of being at the center of it all. The keynote is followed by an audience Q&A.

  3. “The Future of MCP — David Soria Parra, Anthropic” from AIE Europe 2026
    Conference ⸱ +93k views ⸱ Apr 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 46s

    tldw: David Soria Parra, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and co-creator of the Model Context Protocol, shares what he believes will be true for agents in 2026 and how MCP plays a part in that future.

  4. “How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code - A Deep Dive” from JavaOne 2026
    Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Apr 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 23s

    tldw: John Rose, Senior JVM Architect at Oracle and lead on Project Valhalla, takes us deep into how the JVM actually optimizes generic code. Using a QuickSort example, he shows how type profiling, inlining and devirtualization often match C++ template speed, why profile pollution can degrade performance and how Valhalla’s value classes and generic specialization change the picture.

  5. “try! Swift Tokyo 2026: The Evolution of SwiftUI” from try! Swift Tokyo 2026
    Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Apr 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 21m 37s

    tldw: Natalia Panferova, former Apple SwiftUI engineer and author of SwiftUI Fundamentals, shares an insider’s perspective on what’s actually driving SwiftUI’s rapid API evolution. You’ll learn how and why SwiftUI changes, how to evaluate when to move from older APIs to newer ones and why embracing these changes is essential for building robust apps.

  6. “Algorithms Demystified | Dylan Beattie” from Build Stuff 2025
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 27s

    tldw: Dylan Beattie, Microsoft MVP and creator of the Rockstar programming language, breaks down the world of algorithms without the fear, formulas or academic fog that usually surrounds them. Using music, pub crawls, Scrabble, sorting, spell checkers and real-world engineering stories, he shows how algorithms actually work, why they matter and when developers should understand them deeply even if they never implement one from scratch. It’s a playful but powerful guide to one of software engineering’s most important foundations.

  7. “Building Trust in Teams | Richard Campbell” from Build Stuff 2025
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 01s

    tldw: Today businesses run on software, and the quality of that software is directly shaped by the level of trust between the people who build it. Richard Campbell, co-host of .NET Rocks, shares how you can improve trust on your own team, drawing on years of experience building it with time, effort, honesty and pizza.

  8. “Most Data Teams Are Doing It Wrong” from Data Engineering Central Podcast
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 49s

    tldl: Most data teams think they’re building value. In reality, they’ve become ticket queues. In this episode Chris Gambill, a veteran of Fortune 500 data teams, digs into what separates senior engineers from true strategic operators, the biggest early-career mistakes, Databricks vs Snowflake without the marketing hype and why the classic problems that have plagued data teams for decades still haven’t gone away.

  9. “998: How to Fix Vibe Coding” from Syntax
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 35s

    tldl: Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski talk about making AI coding more reliable using deterministic tools like fallow, knip, ESLint, StyleLint and Sentry. They cover code quality analysis, linting strategies, headless browsers, task workflows and how to enforce better patterns so AI stops guessing and starts producing maintainable, predictable code.

  10. “Episode 509: I hate AI software dev, so should I become a manager and leading, not doing” from Soft Skills Engineering
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 09s

    tldl: In this week’s episode Dave Smith and Jamison Dance tackle two listener questions that hit close to home. A senior engineer at big tech no longer enjoys the job in the age of AI and wonders whether engineering management is the right pivot. And Paolo, newly stepped into a senior role, watches projects drift because he’s trying to let juniors lead: how do you give real ownership without becoming either the micromanager or the absentee leader?

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  19. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (2)

  20. Meeting C++ 2025 (1)

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  22. QCon London 2025 (1)

  23. QCon San Francisco 2025 (1)

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 100: Addy Osmani on AI, Stop Using JWTs, How Netflix Uses Java, State of Vue 2026, How DHH uses AI, Visual Journey Into K8S Networking, ...]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-100-addy-osmani-on-ai-stophttps://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-100-addy-osmani-on-ai-stopWed, 15 Apr 2026 15:03:25 GMTAll Software Engineering conference talks in one place. Organized.

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  1. “Addy Osmani on Why 2026 Seniors are just highly-paid Code Editors” from GitNation Podcast
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 10, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:36:31

    tldl: What happens when AI starts touching four times more files than it needs? Why are 2026 seniors spending 66% of their time fixing almost-right AI code? Addy Osmani, Head of Chrome Developer Experience at Google, unpacks the 4x PR Bloat Crisis, vibe coding vs engineering rigor, why prompt engineering is dead and how context engineering keeps agents productive. You’ll also get a first look at Chrome DevTools MCP and runtime-aware agents.

  2. “How Netflix Uses Java - 2026 Edition” from JavaOne 2026
    Conference ⸱ +36k views ⸱ Apr 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 39s

    tldw: The 2026 update on how Netflix uses Java to power your favorite shows. You’ll see how they build services with Spring Boot, DGS/GraphQL or gRPC and how they keep more than 3,000 Java services consistently updated across frameworks, libraries and JDK versions. They also share practical lessons you can apply in your own organization.

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  4. “Stop Using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for Authorization! by Sohan Maheshwar” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
    Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Apr 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 24s

    tldw: JWTs are everywhere and for good reason: they’re easy to pass around, self-contained and standardized. In this lightning talk, Sohan Maheshwar explores why using them for authorization comes with serious pitfalls, especially in distributed systems. You’ll learn the technical and security limitations of JWT-based authorization and why it’s fundamentally incompatible with modern applications citing the infamous New Enemy Problem described in Google’s Zanzibar paper.

  5. “An Immersive and Visual Journey Into Kubernetes Networking - Benoit Entzmann, Feesh” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
    Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Apr 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 51s

    tldw: Kubernetes networking is still intimidating for many, but what if you could see it to actually understand it? Benoit Entzmann from Feesh takes you on an immersive visual journey, following packets through imagined realms and transitioning from the familiar land of traditional networking. Have you ever been inside a cluster and experienced routing like a roller-coaster?

  6. “Gearing up to Java 25: Key Language Features by Venkat Subramaniam” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
    Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Apr 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 45m 14s

    tldw: Venkat Subramaniam, Java Champion and author of several Pragmatic Programmers titles, takes a quick look at the current state of Java, dives into the most recent features landing in version 25 and discusses what’s ahead.

  7. “Tracing Java Performance Bottlenecks by Victor Rentea” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
    Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Apr 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 16s

    tldw: Victor Rentea, Java Champion and independent trainer, explains how to efficiently zoom in on a bottleneck using OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, metrics and execution profiling. After learning to read a flame graph, you’ll trace typical backend bottlenecks like resource starvation, time-consuming interceptors and the unexpected causes you can rarely guess right.

  8. “Stream tricks that you don’t wanna miss ! by Aicha Laafia” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
    Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 23s

    tldw: JDK 25 makes streams a lot more fun with Stream Gatherers for batching, sliding, and grouping without weird collector code. It also shows off String Templates so SQL, JSON, and logs stay clean and safer from injection. Expect live coding, a bunch of small tricks you can steal, and some memes. If you write Java and still think streams are boring, this is worth a watch.

  9. “Are We Still Doing OOP? 🤔 Let’s Tackle Anemic Domain Models Together by Michael Koers” from Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
    Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 31s

    tldw: Java is an object-oriented language, but are we actually writing object-oriented code? Michael Koers, a software consultant, walks through a repeating anti-pattern: splitting data from logic. You’ll learn why Anemic Domain Models clash with OOP and how to tackle them to write more structurally sound and maintainable code, especially alongside design methodologies like Domain-Driven Design.

  10. “try! Swift Tokyo 2026: Swift Outside Apple” from try! Swift Tokyo 2026
    Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Apr 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 26s

    tldw: Swift has quietly escaped the Apple ecosystem, and Joannis Orlandos takes you on a tour of what that actually looks like in practice. You’ll see the same code running on Server, Embedded Linux, Android, WebAssembly or iOS, with a clear picture of what works today and where the rough edges still remain. Whether you author libraries or are just curious about Swift beyond Xcode, you’ll leave knowing what’s possible and what’s coming next.

  11. “GeeCON 2025: Baruch Sadogursky - Coding Fast and Slow: Applying Kahneman’s Insights to Improve Dev.” from GeeCON 2025
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 07s

    tldw: What does behavioral psychology have to do with coding? Baruch Sadogursky, a seasoned developer advocate and long-time JFrog contributor, draws on Daniel Kahneman’s work on fast and slow thinking to show how mental energy shapes your decisions and productivity. You’ll walk away with practical techniques for reducing context switching, protecting focus and saving the clarity you need for critical work at the end of a long day.

  12. “DHH’s new way of writing code” from The Pragmatic Engineer
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 01:47:21

    tldl: David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and CTO of 37signals, recently told Lex Fridman he types out all his code himself. Six months later things look very different. In this episode DHH shares his new agent-first approach to building software, how he barely writes code by hand anymore and how AI agents are reshaping the way he explores ideas without lowering his standards for quality.

  13. “Evan You - State of Vue 2026” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
    Conference ⸱ +5k views ⸱ Apr 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 26s

    tldw: The most anticipated annual update from Evan You, the creator of Vue. Expect roadmap highlights, a look back at the last decade, major version retrospectives, deep dives into internal features and performance improvements, ecosystem growth and his future vision for the framework.

  14. “Daniel Roe - State of Nuxt 2026” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026
    Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Apr 14, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 57s

    tldw: The highly anticipated State of Nuxt, delivered by Daniel Roe, Nuxt core team lead. Previous editions unveiled Nuxt 3, the Nitro runtime, DevTools or the full-stack identity story, and with everything that happened in 2025 the team is ready to show what 2026 holds. A must-watch if you build with Nuxt imo.

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 99: The Aging Programmer, Post-Quantum Cryptography, AWS Lambda Performance Tuning, Lock-Free Programming in Java, What’s Missing in Postgres, ...]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-99https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-99Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:40:31 GMTHappy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #99!

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  1. “Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
    Conference ⸱ +7k views ⸱ Apr 07, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 33s

    tldw: Martin Fowler and Kent Beck sit down at The Pragmatic Summit to discuss how the biggest disruptions in software have played out and what makes the AI shift different.

  2. “AWS Lambda Performance Tuning | Serverless Office Hours” from AWS Events
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 01:00:04

    tldl: This is a nice walk through of configuration and code-level improvements that directly impact your Lambda function’s speed and efficiency. You’ll learn how to optimize memory settings for the right balance between cost and performance.

  3. “GeeCON 2025: Andrzej Grzesik, Jarosław Pałka - Gentle Introduction to Lock-Free Programming in Java” from GeeCON 2025
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 06, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 35s

    tldw: Java Champion Andrzej Grzesik and Jarosław Pałka introduce us to lock-free programming techniques in Java, from progress guarantees and Compare-And-Swap to the infamous ABA problem. They implement three lock-free data structures: a stack, a queue and a linked list, showing when lock-free methods improve scalability and when sticking with locks is more appropriate.

  4. “Devnexus 2026 - Hands on Embabel - Rod Johnson” from Devnexus 2026
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 07, 2026 ⸱ 00h 59m 05s

    tldw: Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, gives a practical introduction to Embabel which is his new Kotlin-based agent framework for the JVM.

  5. “Story: The Aging Programmer” from CoRecursive
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 02, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 52s

    tldl: Kate Gregory has been writing C++ for over forty years. She surveyed hundreds of software engineers about getting older and found that the things people feared most, like memory, stamina and keeping up, weren’t the real threats. The single factor that predicted whether you’d age well or badly had nothing to do with your body at all: the opponent isn’t aging, it’s the story about aging.

  6. “What’s Missing in Postgres?” from Postgres FM
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 03, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 58s

    tldl: Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL core team member since 1996 and VP at EDB, joins Nik and Michael to discuss what’s still missing in Postgres. After nearly 30 years of working on the project, Bruce explores the features and capabilities PostgreSQL still needs to tackle next.

  7. “Learning API Styles • Lukasz Dynowski & Sam Newman • GOTO 2026” from GOTO Podcast
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 02, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:31:26

    tldl: Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices, sits down with Lukasz Dynowski, co-author of the new O’Reilly book Learning API Styles, for a deep dive into a subject most developers think they already understand. They explore the trade-offs of REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and other common API styles from both a network and architecture perspective.

  8. “Java and Post-Quantum Cryptography” from JavaOne 2026
    Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Apr 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 07s

    tldw: The security of the world’s digital infrastructure relies on algorithms like RSA and Diffie-Hellman, but quantum computing threatens to break them. Sean Mullan, Technical Lead of the Java Security Libraries Team at Oracle, shows how the Java Platform is preparing by adding support for Post-Quantum Cryptography. Learn about the PQC features already delivered and what’s coming in JDK 27 and beyond.

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  7. Data Engineering (2)

  8. Data Science / Machine Learning (3)

  9. Databases (1)

  10. DevOps (2)

  11. Java (12)

  12. Misc (56)

  13. Mobile (3)

  14. Rust (1)

  15. Security (6)

  16. Software Architecture (6)

  17. Swift (2)

  18. Web / Frontend (1)

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  1. AI Engineer Europe 2026 (10)

  2. CSS Day 2025 (1)

  3. Code BEAM Europe 2025 (1)

  4. CppCon 2025 (4)

  5. DDD Europe 2025 (1)

  6. Devnexus 2026 (7)

  7. Devoxx Poland 2024 (3)

  8. FOSS Backstage 2026 (7)

  9. GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1)

  10. GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025 (1)

  11. GeeCON 2025 (1)

  12. JavaOne 2026 (3)

  13. Meeting C++ 2025 (2)

  14. Node Congress 2026 (1)

  15. PyData Boston Meetup 2026 (2)

  16. QCon London 2025 (1)

  17. SmashingConf New York 2025 (3)

  18. The Pragmatic Summit 2026 (1)

  19. YOW! 2025 (1)

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]]><![CDATA[Issue 98: 🎉 9,000 subscribers]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-98-9000-subscribershttps://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-98-9000-subscribersThu, 02 Apr 2026 15:07:26 GMTHappy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #98!

I’m kicking off this issue with a very exiciting update:

Tech Talks Weekly has just exceeded 9,000 subscribers 🎉 🎉

This is an incredible number and when I started Tech Talks Weekly, I’d never think it’d grow this much! Especially since I’ve spent $0 on marketing and have never actively promoted this project. Every single one of you has come here organically, mostly from word of mouth.

I’m incredibly grateful you are here and wanted to thank you for your continuous support 🙏 Your support, whether it’s just opening an email, clicking, liking, or sharing it with a friend means a lot and motivates me to keep going.

I also really appreciate that in a world where “AI is everything” and where we’re constantly bombarded with low-quality, short-form content, there is still a sizeable audience who genuinely values long-form high-quality content like conference talks.

Let’s keep it up and thank you!

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  1. “Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there’s nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summit” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
    Conference ⸱ +10k views ⸱ Mar 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 20m 49s

    tldw: If AI can replicate nearly any product quickly and cheaply, what’s the point of building anything at all? Chip Huyen, the author of two excellent books Designing Machine Learning Systems (Manning) and AI Engineering (O’Reilly), confronts this question: sharing how “competitive moats” are shifting from how to build to what to build, why code review norms break down when AI generates large chunks of code and what it means for mentorship and human agency. In this talk, you’ll learn where real value lies when execution becomes cheap. I highly recommend it!

  2. “Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: A Conversation with Lorin Hochstein” from InfoQ
    Podcast ⸱ Mar 31, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 00:51:42

    tldl: Automated fault injection can introduce basic robustness, but it cannot replicate the understanding that comes from mitigating real-world failures. Lorin Hochstein, co-author of Chaos Engineering and Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb, explores how adding more reliability can ironically lead to complexity that creates new failures and why we still haven’t learned to make systems resilient to unknown failure modes.

  3. “The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages by Kevlin Henney - Voxxed Days CERN ‘26” from Voxxed Days CERN 2026
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 51s

    tldw: Each programming language embeds a philosophy of how to think about code. Kevlin Henney, the author of two legendary books: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, takes us on a tour of their past, present and future. We’ll learn why mainstream languages are still embracing ideas that are decades old and how current trends from FOSS to LLMs will shape what comes next.

  4. “JavaScript in 2026 by Christian Woerz” from Voxxed Days Zurich 2026
    Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Apr 01, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 09s

    tldw: We often reach for solutions from old Stack Overflow posts or ask Claude, only to fall back on patterns that have been around forever. Christian Wörz, who is recognized as Microsoft MVP, explores the modern ECMAScript features you’re probably not taking advantage of yet and replaces everyday outdated techniques with the cleaner, more powerful tools the language now offers.

  5. “Production-Ready GenAI with Open Models for Java Teams” from JavaOne 2026
    Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Mar 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 28s

    tldw: Brian Benz, who is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft and Java Champion, shows how Java teams can select, integrate and operate LLMs using LangChain4j and vector search, covering everything from benchmarking and JVM memory footprints to RAG quality metrics and rollback strategies.

  6. “Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)” from The Pragmatic Engineer
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 01, 2026 ⸱ 0 days 01:39:35

    tldl: When Thuan Pham joined Uber as its first CTO, there were 40 engineers, 30,000 rides per day and the system crashed multiple times a week. He goes deep into how they rebuilt Uber from a monolith to microservices, launched in China in just five months, and shares how he sees AI changing software engineering.

  7. “How to (Re)start Your Java Journey in 2026” from JavaOne 2026
    Conference ⸱ +10k views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 29s

    tldw: Whether you’re new to Java, returning after a break or looking to modernize your approach, Richard Fichtner (Java Champion) helps you navigate the Java ecosystem of 2026 with confidence. Drawing on practical experience, he highlights the tools, frameworks and practices that make the greatest impact in day-to-day development.

  8. “High-Speed Crypto Trading: JVM Techniques Behind Bitvavo’s µs Revolution - Oleg Lobanov, Marcos Maia” from Voxxed Days CERN 2026
    Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 47s

    tldw: Achieving single-digit microsecond latencies in crypto trading isn’t just ambitious: it’s transformative. Oleg Lobanov and Marcos Maia, Staff Engineers at Bitvavo (Europe’s largest crypto exchange), walk through the advanced JVM optimizations behind their rebuilt core architecture: minimized garbage collection, object pooling, reliable UDP and high-performance ring buffers that made it all possible.

  9. “A Deep Dive Into Advanced TypeScript - A Live Coding Expedition by Christian Wörz” from Voxxed Days CERN 2026
    Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 28s

    tldw: Christian Wörz (Microsoft MVP) takes us again in this Tech Talks Weekly issue on a hands-on live coding expedition, this time with TypeScript. Explore often overlooked yet powerful features like recursive types, type permutations and a CSS validator written entirely in TypeScript, each brought to life through real-world examples.

  10. “Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA - Marit van Dijk” from Voxxed Days CERN 2026
    Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Mar 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 41s

    tldw: IntelliJ is designed to keep us in the flow with its powerful editor, refactorings, navigation and smart features for reading and writing code. Marit van Dijk, Developer Advocate at JetBrains, Java Champion and co-author of an excellent book called 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know, shows how the IDE supports the entire workflow so we can be a happier and more productive developers.

  11. “Database Connection Pool Sizing - Demystified! by Jasmin Fluri” from Voxxed Days Zurich 2026
    Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Apr 01, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 46s

    tldw: Do you think a bigger connection pool means better performance? Jasmin Fluri (Oracle ACE Pro) explains why oversized pools actually harm throughput. Using mathematical principles like Kingman’s law, she shows how adding more connections can increase waiting times and equips us with practical formulas to size our pools optimally.

  12. “Why CodeRabbit gave away a million dollars to open source maintainers”
    Podcast ⸱ Apr 01, 2026 ⸱ 00h 12m 23s

    tldl: CodeRabbit made a bold commitment: a million dollars in cash for open source maintainers, not just free product access. Erik Thorelli, DevRel lead at CodeRabbit, explains what 100,000 open source projects using AI code review reveal about how developers actually work and what maintainers really need to keep critical projects alive.

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  2. AWS (5)

  3. Angular (1)

  4. BEAM (1)

  5. C# / .NET (3)

  6. C++ (7)

  7. Data Engineering (2)

  8. Data Science / Machine Learning (1)

  9. Databases (4)

  10. DevOps (2)

  11. Elixir (1)

  12. Java (72)

  13. Kotlin (2)

  14. Kubernetes (4)

  15. Leadership (1)

  16. Misc (61)

  17. Mobile (3)

  18. Python (2)

  19. React (1)

  20. Ruby / Rails (2)

  21. Rust (1)

  22. Security (14)

  23. Software Architecture (4)

  24. Swift (1)

  25. Web / Frontend (6)

  26. Web Assembly (6)

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  1. AI Coding Summit 2026 (1)

  2. CSS Day 2025 (1)

  3. Code BEAM Europe 2025 (1)

  4. CppCon 2025 (5)

  5. DDD Europe 2025 (1)

  6. Devnexus 2026 (9)

  7. Devoxx Poland 2024 (3)

  8. FOSS Backstage 2026 (33)

  9. FOSS Backstage Design 2026 (4)

  10. GOTO 2024 (1)

  11. GOTO 2025 (1)

  12. GOTO 2026 (2)

  13. GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025 (1)

  14. GeeCON 2025 (2)

  15. IndiaFOSS 2025 (2)

  16. InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 (1)

  17. JavaOne 2026 (3)

  18. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (8)

  19. LeadDev London 2025 (1)

  20. Meeting C++ 2025 (2)

  21. NDC Security 2026 (8)

  22. Open Source Summit 2025 (1)

  23. QCon London 2026 (1)

  24. SmashingConf New York 2025 (1)

  25. Swetugg 2025 (1)

  26. The Pragmatic Summit 2026 (1)

  27. Voxxed Days CERN 2026 (28)

  28. Voxxed Days Zurich 2026 (30)

  29. Wasm I/O 2026 (6)

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 97]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-97https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-97Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:05:01 GMTHappy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #97!

Tech Talks Weekly is back after a short break. There is a lot new exciting updates coming up soon, so stay tuned!

This issue includes everything that was published over the last 3 weeks. That means: 371 new conference talks and 60 new podcasts.

Before we start, make sure to check out:

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  1. “Uber: Leading engineering through an agentic shift - The Pragmatic Summit” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
    Podcast ⸱ Mar 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 39s

    tldl: Uber shares what it looks like to run “agentic” engineering at scale, starting with toil automation and ending with migrations. It walks through their multi agent workflow model, background agents, and the platform pieces that make it work. It covers logs, observability, and debugging when agents start doing work on their own. Watch the Q&A at the end, too, as it gets into the orgzational and people problems.

  2. “Hijacking Google’s CI/CD Through Prompt Injection:The New Era of AI-Based Exploits-Mackenzie Jackson” from NDC Security 2026
    Conference ⸱ +700 views ⸱ Mar 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 34s

    tldw: Prompt injection is a serious threat once you wire LLMs into CI/CD and give them tokens and shell access. This talk shows how a prompt hidden in untrusted text can turn into real command execution inside GitHub Actions. It walks through a CI/CD exploit pattern found at Google.

  3. “Why 10x Engineers Fail: The Culture Gap in Tech Hiring” from QCon London 2026
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Mar 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 28s

    tldw: Most technical interviews skip the most crucial part which is cultural alignment. This talk shows why chatting about culture chat at the end fails, even when the candidate is a so called 10x engineer. It shows how to “test” for culture during coding and system design rounds.

  4. “Why Most Agentic AI Fails (And How to Fix It)” from The InfoQ Podcast
    Podcast ⸱ Mar 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 32s

    tldl: AI agents are non-deterministic. This talk walks through what breaks when you move from simple automation to systems that act on their own. It also treats token spend like the new cloud bill and explains why costs can explode fast.

  5. “Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
    Conference ⸱ +23k views ⸱ Mar 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 20s

    tldw: Coding agents can write real code, but only if you treat them like untrusted teammates, lean on TDD, and take prompt injection seriously.

  6. “The Software Engineer 2030: From Coder To AI Orchestrator?”
    Podcast ⸱ Mar 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 59s

    tldl: This episode argues the 2030 job is less typing code and more steering AI while keeping strong fundamentals. There is a good section on what skills still matter when tools get smarter.

  7. “PostgreSQL Performance Mastery: Tuning and Optimization Strategies”
    Podcast ⸱ Mar 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 59m 21s

    tldl: You’ll learn how to spot real bottlenecks, tune queries, and adjust “the right” knobs. You’ll also learn what breaks in high traffic and how to get more out of the same hardware.

🗄️ New talks & podcasts by category

All the items from 📆 New talks and 📆 New podcasts organized by category.

  1. AI Engineering (58)

  2. AWS (24)

  3. Angular (2)

  4. BEAM (3)

  5. C# / .NET (10)

  6. C++ (22)

  7. Clojure (1)

  8. Data Engineering (5)

  9. Data Science / Machine Learning (5)

  10. Databases (5)

  11. DevOps (5)

  12. Java (18)

  13. Kubernetes (2)

  14. Leadership (2)

  15. Misc (86)

  16. Mobile (1)

  17. Python (1)

  18. React (2)

  19. Rust (2)

  20. Security (33)

  21. Software Architecture (13)

  22. Web / Frontend (6)

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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 Coding Summit 2026 (3)

  2. AWS AI and Data Conference 2026 (20)

  3. ArgoCon 2026 (24)

  4. CSS Day 2025 (3)

  5. Code BEAM Europe 2025 (3)

  6. CppCon 2025 (13)

  7. CppCon 2026 (1)

  8. DDD Europe 2025 (3)

  9. DSC Europe 2025 (4)

  10. Devnexus 2026 (9)

  11. Devoxx Poland 2024 (9)

  12. FOSS Hack 2026 (3)

  13. FluxCon 2026 (9)

  14. Future Frontend Meetup March 2026 (1)

  15. GOTO 2025 (1)

  16. GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (3)

  17. GeeCON 2025 (5)

  18. IndiaFOSS 2025 (4)

  19. InfoQ Dev Summit 2025 (3)

  20. JavaOne 2026 (5)

  21. Jfokus 2026 (1)

  22. MQ Summit 2025 (2)

  23. Meeting C++ 2025 (6)

  24. Meetup Milano 2026 (1)

  25. NDC London 2026 (15)

  26. NDC Security 2026 (22)

  27. Open Source SecurityCon 2026 (13)

  28. PyData Boston 2025 (1)

  29. QCon London 2026 (4)

  30. The Pragmatic Summit 2026 (5)

  31. YOW! 2025 (1)

  32. ng-conf 2025 (1)

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]]><![CDATA[🏆 100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2025]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-engineering-talks-of-2025https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-engineering-talks-of-2025Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:13:42 GMT

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and welcome to this very special edition of Tech Talks Weekly!

Following tradition, I’ve put together a complete list of the top 100 most watched Software Engineering talks presented in 2025 across almost every Software Engineering conference around the world.

It’s probably no surprise that most of the talks are about AI. Exactly one year ago, in March 2025, we heard AI will write 100% of the code by the end of the year. I think this prediction was remarkably accurate and it’s is clearly reflected in this year’s talks.

The most-watched talk this year is AWS re:Invent 2025 keynote by Werner Vogels. I’ve always been a big fan of Werner’s keynotes. 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, thinking in systems, staying extremely curious, and use AI with intention. He called it the “Renaissance developer”. You’ll find the link below.

That said, there is a pattern you’ll observe among the rest: instead of asking whether AI will change software engineering, most speakers are now focused on how to work effectively with it. At the same time, many talks also cover the core challenges that come with this transition: reliability (yes, some teams now have 2x more incidents), security (well… is there any, really?), and the fact that having strong engineering skills are still essential (because now tech debt can be generated 10x faster!).

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🏆 100 Most Watched Talks Of 2025

  1. “AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels”
    Werner Vogels • AWS re:Invent 2025
    +13m views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 01h 16m 18s

  2. “Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check (at LDX3 by LeadDev)”
    Gergely Orosz • LDX3 2025
    +1m views ⸱ Jul 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 18s

  3. “The New Code — Sean Grove, OpenAI”
    Sean Grove • AI Engineer 2025
    +1m views ⸱ Jul 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 21m 36s

  4. “Don’t Build Agents, Build Skills Instead – Barry Zhang & Mahesh Murag, Anthropic”
    Barry Zhang, Mahesh Murag • AI Engineer 2025
    +857k views ⸱ Dec 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 22s

  5. “How We Build Effective Agents: Barry Zhang, Anthropic”
    Barry Zhang • AI Engineer 2025
    +409k views ⸱ Apr 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 09s

  6. “No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases – Dex Horthy, HumanLayer”
    Dex Horthy • AI Engineer 2025
    +377k views ⸱ Dec 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 31s

  7. “Building Agents with Model Context Protocol - Full Workshop with Mahesh Murag of Anthropic”
    Mahesh Murag • AI Engineer 2025
    +325k views ⸱ Mar 01, 2025 ⸱ 01h 44m 12s

  8. “”I shipped code I don’t understand and I bet you have too” – Jake Nations, Netflix”
    Jake Nations • AI Engineer 2025
    +319k views ⸱ Dec 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 57s

  9. “Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) - Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford”
    Yegor Denisov-Blanch • AI Engineer 2025
    +293k views ⸱ Jul 23, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 12s

  10. “How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition”
    Paul Bakker • JavaOne 2025
    +286k views ⸱ Apr 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 43s

  11. “12-Factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications — Dex Horthy, HumanLayer”
    Dex Horthy • AI Engineer 2025
    +262k views ⸱ Jul 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 06s

  12. “Building and evaluating AI Agents — Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil”
    Sayash Kapoor • AI Engineer 2025
    +220k views ⸱ Apr 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 00s

  13. “Challenges and Benefits of Upgrading Sea of Thieves From C++14 to C++20 - Keith Stockdale ACCU 2025”
    Keith Stockdale • ACCU 2025
    +207k views ⸱ Aug 22, 2025 ⸱ 01h 04m 40s

  14. “RAG Agents in Prod: 10 Lessons We Learned — Douwe Kiela, creator of RAG”
    Douwe Kiela • AI Engineer 2025
    +174k views ⸱ Apr 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 56s

  15. “2025 in LLMs so far, illustrated by Pelicans on Bicycles — Simon Willison”
    Simon Willison • AI Engineer 2025
    +157k views ⸱ Jul 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 30s

  16. “Rails World 2025 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson”
    David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) • Railsworld 2025
    +143k views ⸱ Sep 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 03m 55s

  17. “Claude Code & the evolution of agentic coding — Boris Cherny, Anthropic”
    Boris Cherny • AI Engineer 2025
    +131k views ⸱ Jul 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 12s

  18. “Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - Jerry Nixon - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
    Jerry Nixon • NDC Copenhagen 2025
    +125k views ⸱ Nov 19, 2025 ⸱ 01h 03m 07s

  19. “Building AI Agents that actually automate Knowledge Work - Jerry Liu, LlamaIndex”
    Jerry Liu • AI Engineer 2025
    +121k views ⸱ Jun 24, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 57s

  20. “Building Multimodal AI Agents From Scratch — Apoorva Joshi, MongoDB”
    Apoorva Joshi • AI Engineer 2025
    +113k views ⸱ Jun 27, 2025 ⸱ 00h 36m 58s

  21. “Architecting Agent Memory: Principles, Patterns, and Best Practices — Richmond Alake, MongoDB”
    Richmond Alake • AI Engineer 2025
    +113k views ⸱ Jun 27, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 37s

  22. “Reinforcement Learning for Agents - Will Brown, ML Researcher at Morgan Stanley”
    Will Brown • AI Engineer 2025
    +109k views ⸱ Mar 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 17s

  23. “[Full Workshop] Reinforcement Learning, Kernels, Reasoning, Quantization & Agents — Daniel Han”
    Daniel Han • AI Engineer 2025
    +106k views ⸱ Jul 19, 2025 ⸱ 02h 42m 28s

  24. “Defying Gravity - Kevin Hou, Google DeepMind”
    Kevin Hou • AI Engineer 2025
    +102k views ⸱ Dec 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 10s

  25. “Creative UIs with Compose | Chris Horner”
    Chris Horner • KotlinConf 2025
    +94k views ⸱ Jul 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 39s

  26. “The Future of Rust Web Applications - Greg Johnston”
    Greg Johnston • Rust Nation UK 2025
    +93k views ⸱ Feb 26, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 18s

  27. “Minimax M2: Building the #1 Open Model – Olive Song, MiniMax”
    Olive Song • AI Engineer 2025
    +90k views ⸱ Dec 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 13m 41s

  28. “Vibes won’t cut it — Chris Kelly, Augment Code”
    Chris Kelly • AI Engineer 2025
    +86k views ⸱ Aug 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 34s

  29. “From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering – Kitze, Sizzy”
    Kitze • AI Engineer 2025
    +86k views ⸱ Dec 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 28s

  30. “Composition Is All You Need | Fernando Rojo at React Universe Conf 2025”
    Fernando Rojo • React Universe Conf 2025
    +85k views ⸱ Sep 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 22m 17s

  31. “Make your LLM app a Domain Expert: How to Build an Expert System — Christopher Lovejoy, Anterior”
    Christopher Lovejoy • AI Engineer 2025
    +83k views ⸱ Jul 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 18s

  32. “How Windsurf writes 90% of your code with an Agentic IDE - Kevin Hou, Windsurf”
    Kevin Hou • AI Engineer 2025
    +81k views ⸱ Mar 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 50s

  33. “Modern React Patterns: Concurrent Rendering, Actions & What’s Next | Aurora Scharff at RUC 2025”
    Aurora Scharff • React Universe Conf 2025
    +78k views ⸱ Sep 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 26m 32s

  34. “How Claude Code Works - Jared Zoneraich, PromptLayer”
    Jared Zoneraich • AI Engineer 2025
    +78k views ⸱ Dec 26, 2025 ⸱ 01h 05m 43s

  35. “Where is the Java language going?”
    Brian Goetz • JavaOne 2025
    +68k views ⸱ Apr 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 31s

  36. “MCP is all you need — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic”
    Samuel Colvin • AI Engineer 2025
    +63k views ⸱ Jul 18, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 24s

  37. “Moving Beyond Containers - Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips @Wasm I/O 2025”
    Daniel Phillips • Wasm I/O 2025
    +63k views ⸱ Apr 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 15s

  38. “tldraw.computer - Steve Ruiz, tldraw”
    Steve Ruiz • AI Engineer 2025
    +62k views ⸱ Jul 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 45s

  39. “Know Your Java?”
    Venkat Subramaniam • JavaOne 2025
    +60k views ⸱ May 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 30s

  40. “#define AI Engineer - Greg Brockman, OpenAI (ft. Jensen Huang)”
    Greg Brockman • AI Engineer 2025
    +60k views ⸱ Aug 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 05s

  41. “AI Engineering at Jane Street - John Crepezzi”
    John Crepezzi • AI Engineer 2025
    +58k views ⸱ Mar 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 57s

  42. “How to Train Your Agent: Building Reliable Agents with RL — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe”
    Kyle Corbitt • AI Engineer 2025
    +58k views ⸱ Jul 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 48s

  43. “You Don’t Know Git - Edward Thomson - NDC London 2025”
    Edward Thomson • NDC London 2025
    +58k views ⸱ Mar 31, 2025 ⸱ 01h 01m 56s

  44. “Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans - Scott Hanselman - NDC London 2025”
    Scott Hanselman • NDC London 2025
    +57k views ⸱ Mar 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 59m 00s

  45. “The Joy of C++26 Contracts - Myths, Misconceptions & Defensive Programming - Herb Sutter”
    Herb Sutter • CppCon 2025
    +54k views ⸱ Nov 21, 2025 ⸱ 01h 02m 50s

  46. “3 ingredients for building reliable enterprise agents - Harrison Chase, LangChain/LangGraph”
    Harrison Chase • AI Engineer 2025
    +52k views ⸱ Jul 23, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 55s

  47. “Thinking Like an Architect - Gregor Hohpe - NDC London 2025”
    Gregor Hohpe • NDC London 2025
    +52k views ⸱ Mar 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 02m 15s

  48. “Say Goodbye to Microservices, Say Hello to Self-Contained Systems by Simon Martinelli @ Spring I/O”
    Simon Martinelli • Spring I/O 2025
    +50k views ⸱ May 30, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 59s

  49. “2026: The Year The IDE Died — Steve Yegge & Gene Kim, Authors, Vibe Coding”
    Steve Yegge, Gene Kim • AI Engineer 2025
    +50k views ⸱ Dec 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 59s

  50. “The New Java Best Practices by Stephen Colebourne”
    Stephen Colebourne • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +47k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 36s

  51. “10 Things I Do On Every .NET App - Scott Sauber - NDC Oslo 2025”
    Scott Sauber • NDC Oslo 2025
    +45k views ⸱ Sep 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 59m 17s

  52. “Microsoft is Getting Rusty: A Review of Successes and Challenges - Mark Russinovich”
    Mark Russinovich • Rust Nation UK 2025
    +45k views ⸱ Feb 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 34m 41s

  53. “AI Engineers: The Next Generation — Stefania Druga, Google Gemini”
    Stefania Druga • AI Engineer 2025
    +43k views ⸱ Apr 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 21m 47s

  54. “Jeremy Soller: “10 Years of Redox OS and Rust” | RustConf 2025”
    Jeremy Soller • RustConf 2025
    +42k views ⸱ Oct 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 29m 15s

  55. “Java for AI”
    Paul Sandoz • JavaOne 2025
    +40k views ⸱ May 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 48s

  56. “Creating Agents that Co-Create — Karina Nguyen, OpenAI”
    Karina Nguyen • AI Engineer 2025
    +40k views ⸱ Apr 30, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 22s

  57. “The Agent Development Life Cycle — Zack Reneau-Wedeen, Sierra”
    Zack Reneau-Wedeen • AI Engineer 2025
    +39k views ⸱ Apr 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 40s

  58. “Structuring a modern AI team — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs”
    Denys Linkov • AI Engineer 2025
    +39k views ⸱ Jul 24, 2025 ⸱ 00h 17m 40s

  59. “POC to PROD: Hard Lessons from 200+ Enterprise GenAI Deployments - Randall Hunt, Caylent”
    Randall Hunt • AI Engineer 2025
    +39k views ⸱ Jul 23, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 16s

  60. “Scaling Agents for Gen AI Products - Anju Kambadur, Bloomberg Head of AI Engineering”
    Anju Kambadur • AI Engineer 2025
    +39k views ⸱ Apr 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 38s

  61. “Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong - Ian Cooper - NDC London 2025”
    Ian Cooper • NDC London 2025
    +38k views ⸱ Feb 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 55m 10s

  62. “Real World Lean Java Practices, Patterns, Hacks, and Workarounds”
    Adam Bien • JavaOne 2025
    +37k views ⸱ May 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 10s

  63. “Three Cool Things in C++26: Safety, Reflection & std::execution - Herb Sutter - C++ on Sea 2025”
    Herb Sutter • C++ on Sea 2025
    +37k views ⸱ Aug 14, 2025 ⸱ 01h 11m 10s

  64. “Practical GraphRAG: Making LLMs smarter with Knowledge Graphs — Michael, Jesus, and Stephen, Neo4j”
    Michael Hunger, Jesús Barrasa, Stephen Chin • AI Engineer 2025
    +36k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 46s

  65. “Rethinking how we Scaffold AI Agents - Rahul Sengottuvelu, Ramp”
    Rahul Sengottuvelu • AI Engineer 2025
    +36k views ⸱ Mar 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 32s

  66. “The AI-Native Software Engineer | Addy Osmani”
    Addy Osmani • JSNation US 2025
    +35k views ⸱ Dec 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 24m 42s

  67. “A Java Developer’s Guide to Navigating the Frontend Landscape”
    Dan Vega • JavaOne 2025
    +35k views ⸱ May 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 54s

  68. “Mastering LLM Inference Optimization From Theory to Cost Effective Deployment: Mark Moyou”
    Mark Moyou • AI Engineer 2025
    +35k views ⸱ Jan 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 33m 39s

  69. “Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel”
    Linus Torvalds, Dirk Hohndel • Open Source Summit Korea 2025
    +35k views ⸱ Nov 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 29m 57s

  70. “Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow”
    Cory Doctorow • PyCon US 2025
    +35k views ⸱ May 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 49s

  71. “Proactive Agents – Kath Korevec, Google Labs”
    Kath Korevec • AI Engineer 2025
    +34k views ⸱ Dec 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 51s

  72. “Personal, Local, Private AI Agents: Soumith Chintala”
    Soumith Chintala • AI Engineer 2025
    +34k views ⸱ Apr 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 20m 32s

  73. “When Vectors Break Down: Graph-Based RAG for Dense Enterprise Knowledge - Sam Julien, Writer”
    Sam Julien • AI Engineer 2025
    +34k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 47s

  74. “Katelyn Lesse – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents, Anthropic”
    Katelyn Lesse • AI Engineer 2025
    +32k views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 13m 25s

  75. “Agentic GraphRAG: AI’s Logical Edge — Stephen Chin, Neo4j”
    Stephen Chin • AI Engineer 2025
    +32k views ⸱ Jul 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 27s

  76. “TanStack is Your New Favorite Framework”
    Jack Herrington • CascadiaJS 2025
    +32k views ⸱ Oct 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 50s

  77. “Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng? (Stanford 120k Devs Study) – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford”
    Yegor Denisov-Blanch • AI Engineer 2025
    +31k views ⸱ Dec 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 16m 40s

  78. “Ensure AI Agents Work: Evaluation Frameworks for Scaling Success — Aparna Dhinkaran, CEO Arize”
    Aparna Dhinakaran • AI Engineer 2025
    +31k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 28s

  79. “Function Calling is All You Need — Full Workshop, with Ilan Bigio of OpenAI”
    Ilan Bigio • AI Engineer 2025
    +31k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2025 ⸱ 01h 42m 54s

  80. “Growing the Java Language #JVMLS”
    Brian Goetz • JVMLS 2025
    +31k views ⸱ Aug 21, 2025 ⸱ 01h 20m 21s

  81. “Concept-based Generic Programming - Bjarne Stroustrup - CppCon 2025”
    Bjarne Stroustrup • CppCon 2025
    +31k views ⸱ Nov 14, 2025 ⸱ 01h 23m 29s

  82. “AI/ML Introduction for Java Developers”
    Frank Greco • JavaOne 2025
    +30k views ⸱ Jun 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 31s

  83. “Trust, but Verify: Knowledge Agents for Finance Workflows - Mike Conover”
    Mike Conover • AI Engineer 2025
    +30k views ⸱ Apr 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 21m 10s

  84. “You’re Doing Exceptions Wrong - Matt Burke - NDC London 2025”
    Matt Burke • NDC London 2025
    +30k views ⸱ Mar 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 57m 00s

  85. “Thinking Deeper in Gemini — Jack Rae, Google DeepMind”
    Jack Rae • AI Engineer 2025
    +30k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 18m 13s

  86. “Evan You | Vite Beyond a Build Tool | ViteConf 2025”
    Evan You • ViteConf 2025
    +28k views ⸱ Oct 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 36m 54s

  87. “Building Data Visualisations in Python in Minutes • Kris Jenkins • GOTO 2025”
    Kris Jenkins • GOTO 2025
    +28k views ⸱ Nov 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 34s

  88. “Keynote: Machines, Learning, and Machine Learning - Dylan Beattie - NDC Porto 2025”
    Dylan Beattie • NDC Porto 2025
    +28k views ⸱ Oct 22, 2025 ⸱ 01h 09m 30s

  89. “Cause of Death: Spring Data JPA by Thorben Janssen @ Spring I/O 2025”
    Thorben Janssen • Spring I/O 2025
    +28k views ⸱ Jun 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 53s

  90. “Intro to GraphRAG — Zach Blumenfeld”
    Zach Blumenfeld • AI Engineer 2025
    +27k views ⸱ Jun 30, 2025 ⸱ 01h 18m 35s

  91. “The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages - Kevlin Henney - NDC TechTown 2025”
    Kevlin Henney • NDC TechTown 2025
    +27k views ⸱ Dec 31, 2025 ⸱ 01h 09m 52s

  92. “The Worst Programming Language Ever - Rendle”
    Rendle • KanDDDinsky 2025
    +27k views ⸱ Apr 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 44m 17s

  93. “Spring I/O 2025 Keynote”
    Juergen Hoeller, Rossen Stoyanchev, Ana Maria Mihalceanu, Moritz Halbritter, Mark Paluch, Josh Long, Mark Pollack • Spring I/O 2025
    +27k views ⸱ May 25, 2025 ⸱ 01h 14m 25s

  94. “Compose Multiplatform for iOS: Ready for Production Use | Sebastian Aigner”
    Sebastian Aigner • KotlinConf 2025
    +26k views ⸱ Jun 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 23s

  95. “AWS re:Invent 2025 - The future of Kubernetes on AWS (CNS205)”
    Amazon EKS team • AWS re:Invent 2025
    +26k views ⸱ Dec 04, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 33s

  96. “Building voice agents with OpenAI — Dominik Kundel, OpenAI”
    Dominik Kundel • AI Engineer 2025
    +26k views ⸱ Jun 29, 2025 ⸱ 01h 25m 35s

  97. “Java 24 - Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime”
    Nicolai Parlog • Jfokus 2025
    +26k views ⸱ Mar 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 33s

  98. “Building an Agentic Platform — Ben Kus, CTO Box”
    Ben Kus • AI Engineer 2025
    +25k views ⸱ Aug 24, 2025 ⸱ 00h 19m 06s

  99. “Keynote: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - Matt Godbolt - ACCU 2025”
    Matt Godbolt • ACCU 2025
    +25k views ⸱ Aug 29, 2025 ⸱ 01h 20m 45s

  100. “SQL, JSON, and Java”
    Josh Spiegel • JavaOne 2025
    +25k views ⸱ Apr 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 16s

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 96: Spec-Driven Development 101, Future of Programming Languages, Interview with Boris Cherny, Modular Monoliths, Vector Search]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-96https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-96Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:33:29 GMTHappy Thursday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #96!

This issue includes over 120 new conference talks published in the past week together with 21 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

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  1. “Backlog.md: The simplest project management tool for the AI Era by Alex Gavrilescu” from Voxxed Days Ticino 2026
    Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Feb 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 47s

    tldw: AI coding agents like Claude, Codex, or Cursor make it easy to generate a lot of code fast but they also make work feel random and hard to review. This talk argues the missing piece is a simple task structure: keep the backlog as a plain md file, break work into small specs, and run a loop where the agent implements one scoped task at a time. The result is more repeatable output and clearer code diffs.

  2. “Modular Monoliths: The Architecture That Scales w Your Domain - Omphile Matheolane - DDD Europe 2025” from DDD Europe 2025
    Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Mar 02, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 33s

    tldw: Microservices are often treated as the default path to scale, but this talk argues many teams would ship faster with a modular monolith first. The idea is a single deployable app that is still split into real domain modules with clear boundaries using DDD tools like bounded contexts, context maps, and domain events. You get fewer distributed system problems, simpler deployments, and code that matches the business, while keeping the option to break out services later only when the boundaries and scaling needs are proven.

  3. “The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages by Kevlin Henney” from Voxxed Days Ticino 2026
    Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Feb 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 56s

    tldw: Programming languages change way slower than the rest of software, and a lot of what gets marketed as new is just old ideas finally landing in mainstream. It looks back at how language ideas cycle, why adoption lags for decades, and what might nudge the next shifts, including open source culture and LLM-assisted coding.

  4. “Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny” from The Pragmatic Engineer
    Podcast ⸱ Mar 04, 2026 ⸱ 01h 37m 59s

    tldl: Claude Code started as a side project and turned into a core internal coding tool. The talk gets specific about how it pulls the right context from huge codebases, how permissions and sandboxing keep it from doing anything sketchy, and what day to day usage looks like when the model writes a lot of the code. The bigger point is that engineers are still needed but the job shifts toward scoping work, steering the system, reviewing changes, and influencing product and design.

  5. “Get The Most Out of Virtual Threads in Java 25: A Deep Dive by Christian Wörz” from Voxxed Days Ticino 2026
    Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Feb 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 54s

    tldw: Java 25 virtual threads are now good enough for real apps without the weird edge cases that showed up in earlier releases, like pinning. This talk builds a small web app from scratch using virtual threads, StructuredTaskScope, and ScopedValue, showing how to run request work in parallel, cancel cleanly, and handle errors as a group.

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  7. “Unmasking social debt: Silent threat to your team’s success • Kim van Wilgen • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
    Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Mar 02, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 39s

    tldw: Teams track technical debt but often ignore social debt: the trust gaps, unspoken pressure, and broken communication that quietly slow everything down. This talk argues that social debt feeds technical debt by making it harder to discuss code quality, challenge decisions, and collaborate on fixes. It suggests watching for warning signs like avoidance, low psychological safety, and information hoarding, then paying it down with clearer expectations, regular checkins, and habits that make feedback and disagreement safe.

  8. “Vector Search Made Simple: Getting Started with OpenSearch for AI Applications - Dotan Horovits” from NDC London 2026
    Conference ⸱ +800 views ⸱ Feb 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 25s

    tldw: OpenSearch started as a search engine but now works as a vector database, too. The talk gives a quick intro to lexical search vs vector similarity search, then shows how OpenSearch can do both in one place using embeddings and KNN. It goes through common uses like semantic search, image search, and recommendations, and presents OpenSearch as a backend for RAG-style applications.

  9. “Threads vs Coroutines — Why C++ Has Two Concurrency Models - Conor Spilsbury - CppCon 2025” from CppCon 2025
    Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Mar 03, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 58s

    tldw: C++ has both threads and coroutines because they solve different problems, not because one replaces the other. Threads are OS scheduled and run in parallel, but thread creation, context switches, locks, and cache effects add real cost and complexity. Coroutines are language level tasks that suspend and resume cooperatively, so you can run lots of concurrent work on a small number of threads, especially for I/O bound code, but you still need threads underneath for actual parallel CPU work. The talk builds a mental model of what each maps to in the OS and hardware, then applies it to common cases like high fan out I/O, pipelines and CPU heavy work to help you pick the right tool.

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  5. Devoxx Poland 2024 (4)

  6. FOSS Hack 2026 (1)

  7. GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (2)

  8. GeeCON 2025 (3)

  9. LeadDev Berlin 2025 (1)

  10. LeadDev Berlin 2026 (1)

  11. MQ Summit 2025 (2)

  12. Meeting C++ 2025 (2)

  13. NDC London 2026 (26)

  14. PyData Boston 2025 (2)

  15. Rust Nation UK 2026 (14)

  16. RustLab 2025 (16)

  17. The Pragmatic Summit 2026 (1)

  18. Voxxed Days Ticino 2026 (36)

  19. ng-conf 2025 (1)

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 95: AI - data vs hype, José Valim on coding with AI, Scaling to 100+ as a Director, What is Functional Programming, Your career isn’t stuck]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-95https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-95Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:24:36 GMTYour AI demo works. Now what? (Sponsored)

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #95!

This issue includes over 127 new conference talks published in the past week together with 62 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

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  1. “Data vs Hype: How Orgs Actually Win with AI - The Pragmatic Summit” from The Pragmatic Summit 2026
    Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Feb 24, 2026 ⸱ 00h 29m 49s

    tldw: This keynote presents fresh data (Dec 25/Jan 26) on how AI is used by developers that’s never been published before. It argues most companies are rushing to use AI 2026, but that high usage numbers often hide low real change in throughput and quality. It warns benchmarks and averages can mislead and points to early signals from tools like Codex and a few case studies where teams saw measurable gains only after changing how they work, not just what AI tool use. The takeaway is that AI does not fix broken engineering on its own and can lead to even more incidents (even 2x!). The teams that win focus on a small set of concrete practices and track outcomes with better data. I highly recommend this talk.

  2. “Your career isn’t stuck – you’re playing by the wrong rules | Limor Bergman Gross | LeadDev Berlin” from LeadDev Berlin 2025
    Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Feb 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 45s

    tldw: Many engineers feel stuck because they follow the usual career script: work hard, keep your head down, wait to be noticed. This talk says promotions often go to people who build visibility and trust, not just output. The framework is simple: pick a problem that matters to your organization, make your work easy to see, share progress in public places like docs and planning meetings and build allies across teams. It also suggests asking for scope, ownership and decision rights.

  3. “Coding Agents & Language Evolution: Navigating Uncharted Waters • José Valim • GOTO 2025” from GOTO Copenhagen 2025
    Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Feb 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 56s

    tldw: Coding agents are getting good at writing code but they still fail in predictable ways because we do not give them clear instructions, safe tools, or enough runtime context. The talk frames agent work as three parts: instructions, tools and runtime, then shows how to make each less fragile. For instructions, it argues for a repo level contract like AGENTS.md that tells an agent how to run tests, format code, follow project conventions and what it must not touch. For tools, it pushes simple, explicit capabilities over magic, so agents can call well scoped commands and APIs instead of free form shell spelunking. For runtime, it makes the case that languages and frameworks should expose better introspection and integrated runtimes so agents can ask the system what is running, what failed, and how to reproduce it, not just guess from logs. The takeaway is that better agent results come from better interfaces and feedback loops in our tooling, not from bigger prompts.

  4. “Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations” from InfoQ Dev Summit 2025
    Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Feb 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 09s

    tldw: This talk presents learnings from scaling orgs from ~30 to 100+ engineers across big tech and fintech. Past ~50, you need a real leadership team and steady operating cadence to keep execution from turning into chaos. Reorgs should be expected and rehearsed, not treated like failures. To avoid slow consensus, use lightweight decision tools like DACI and write down decisions in management decision records.

  5. “GeeCON 2025: Adam Warski - What is Functional Programming?” from GeeCON 2025
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Feb 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 58s

    tldw: Functional programming is everywhere in modern languages but people still can’t agree on what it even means. This talk tries to pin down a workable definition by looking at which language features actually enable functional style and which ones get in the way. It also asks what it takes to call a language “functional” at all, then uses Java as a test case to see how far you can go with FP ideas in a mostly non functional language.

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  6. Data Science / Machine Learning (6)

  7. Databases (2)

  8. DevOps (8)

  9. Java (9)

  10. Kotlin (2)

  11. Kubernetes (2)

  12. Leadership (8)

  13. Misc (86)

  14. Mobile (9)

  15. Python (2)

  16. React (7)

  17. Rust (3)

  18. Security (6)

  19. Software Architecture (5)

  20. Swift (1)

  21. Web / Frontend (9)

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  1. All Things Open 2026 (1)

  2. CITYJS LONDON 2025 (1)

  3. CSS Day 2025 (1)

  4. Con 42 2026 (1)

  5. Conf42 ML 2026 (31)

  6. CppCon 2025 (5)

  7. DDD Europe 2025 (1)

  8. Devoxx Poland 2024 (3)

  9. GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1)

  10. GeeCON 2025 (3)

  11. InfoQ Dev Summit 2025 (2)

  12. LeadDev Berlin 2025 (7)

  13. LeadDev New York 2025 (1)

  14. MQ Summit 2025 (1)

  15. Meeting C++ 2025 (2)

  16. NDC London 2026 (7)

  17. React Universe Meetup x Zalando, Berlin (1)

  18. React Universe Meetup x Zalando, Berlin 2026 (3)

  19. RustLab 2025 (3)

  20. Seattle Rust User Group 2026 (1)

  21. The Pragmatic Summit 2026 (3)

  22. ng-conf 2025 (1)

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 94: How to hack the job market, AI won’t fix developer productivity, Message delivery in distributed systems, Clean Architecture]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-94https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-94Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:49:30 GMTYou forward conference talks to your team. What if you watched them together and talked about it after? (Sponsored)

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Last week, I published a compilation of the most-watched Java talks of 2025 which went viral. Make sure to check it out:

This issue includes over 65 new conference talks published in the past week together with 85 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

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  1. “Learning not leaning: How developers can Accelerate their Learning with AI - Emma Burstow” from NDC London 2026
    Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 44s

    tldw: Coding assistants feel like the next Intellisense, but they change how people learn, not just how they type. The talk argues the goal is not more code output, it is becoming a better engineer by using AI as a learning tool. A team tried structured Copilot sprints where everyone had to use it, but prompts had to focus on why and what if, tradeoffs, and alternative designs instead of code dumps. Treating the assistant like a tutor, asking for explanations, tests, edge cases, and reasoning, helped developers practice and make mistakes safely while still shipping fast.

  2. “Ensuring reliability: message delivery in distributed system • Michał Ostruszka • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Feb 18, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 14s

    tldw: Distributed systems drop, duplicate, and reorder messages all the time, so “message delivered” is rarely a simple yes or no. This talk explains common delivery guarantees like at most once, at least once, and exactly once, what they actually mean in production, and when you should not bother chasing stronger guarantees. It walks through techniques like idempotent handlers, deduplication keys, retries with backoff, acknowledgments, outbox and inbox patterns, and how brokers and databases change the tradeoffs. The main takeaway: pick the weakest guarantee that meets the business need, then design the system so failures turn into safe retries instead of bad state.

  3. “AI won’t fix developer productivity (unless you fix context first) | Peter Werry | StaffPlus NY 2025” from StaffPlus New York 2025
    Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Feb 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 59s

    tldw: AI coding tools are not boosting productivity for most teams because the real bottleneck is context, not code writing. Developers spend tons of time hunting through GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Confluence to figure out why something exists and what tradeoffs were made. The talk argues for “context engineering”: building a layer that links decisions, discussions, and system history so both humans and tools like Claude or Cursor can query it directly. Done well, this cuts guessing, speeds up changes, and makes AI outputs more reliable for real production codebases.

  4. “The silent infrastructure crisis | Chris Buckley | StaffPlus New York 2025” from StaffPlus New York 2025
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 13m 26s

    tldw: AI crawlers are turning into a new kind of production traffic. Data from Fastly’s sample of 6.5T monthly requests shows single “fetcher” bots spiking as high as 39,000 requests per minute, creating load patterns that don’t look like humans and don’t behave like classic scrapers. The talk argues this is now an infra and security problem: more cache misses, more origin hits, more expensive egress, noisier telemetry, and tougher rate limiting decisions since some bot traffic is “legit” and some is abuse. This talk includes concrete suggestions for how to detect, classify, throttle, and price this traffic so it doesn’t quietly eat your performance budget.

  5. “Whats New with Amazon OpenSearch Service” from AWS Podcast
    Podcast ⸱ Feb 17, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 29s

    tldl: Amazon OpenSearch Service got a batch of updates aimed at people running search and analytics in production. The talk walks through new observability features, better vector search for embedding based queries, and performance work meant to make indexing and querying faster and cheaper at scale. It presents the changes around day to day ops: seeing what your cluster is doing, improving relevance for semantic search, and getting more throughput from the same hardware.

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  7. “Clean Architecture with Python • Sam Keen & Max Kirchoff”
    Podcast ⸱ Feb 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 36m 56s

    tldl: This interview talks through applying Clean Architecture ideas in Python. It focuses on keeping business logic separate from frameworks and I/O code so you can test core behavior fast and swap out databases, web layers, and external services without rewriting everything. The big takeaway is to treat Flask, Django, ORMs, and cloud SDKs as adapters at the edges while your domain and use case code stays plain and boring.

  8. “Mikhail Korolev: How to Hack the Job Market & Get Into VIP Rooms” from ConTejas Code
    Podcast ⸱ Feb 16, 2026 ⸱ 01h 30m 58s

    tldl: A software engineer shares how he went from getting dropped by Toptal to landing an engineering role by showing up where hiring happens: conference side events, invite only dinners, and small groups. Hints: use conference directories to find events, follow the Pac Man rule for mingling so you do not trap people in conversations, and treat CFPs like a game with short abstracts and reusable talk outlines. He also argues DevRel is a bad bet at companies with unfinished products and admits to using ChatGPT to speed through a LeetCode screen, saying it’s like working the system that already rewards game playing.

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  2. AWS (4)

  3. Angular (1)

  4. BEAM (1)

  5. C# / .NET (1)

  6. C++ (5)

  7. Databases (2)

  8. DevOps (4)

  9. Java (2)

  10. Kubernetes (1)

  11. Leadership (14)

  12. Misc (41)

  13. Python (4)

  14. Ruby / Rails (1)

  15. Rust (1)

  16. Security (6)

  17. Software Architecture (7)

  18. Web / Frontend (5)

  19. Web Assembly (1)

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  1. All Things Open 2025 (1)

  2. CSS Day 2025 (1)

  3. Code BEAM Europe 2025 (1)

  4. CppCon 2025 (3)

  5. DDD Europe 2025 (1)

  6. DevOpsCon 2025 (1)

  7. Devoxx Poland 2024 (3)

  8. FluxCon 2025 (1)

  9. GeeCON 2025 (3)

  10. LeadDev Berlin 2025 (5)

  11. LeadDev New York 2025 (4)

  12. MQ Summit 2025 (1)

  13. Meeting C++ 2025 (2)

  14. QCon London 2025 (1)

  15. StaffPlus New York 2025 (5)

  16. dotAI 2026 (3)

  17. ng-conf 2025 (1)

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 93: Beyond the AI Hype, Gas Town with Steve Yegge, JDK24 Stream Gatherers, Advanced TypeScript]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-93https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-93Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:31:04 GMTThe most powerful Git client for Mac. (Sponsored)

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Happy Friday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #93!

Earlier this week, I published a compilation of the most-watched Java talks of 2025 which went viral. Make sure to check it out:

This issue includes over 214 new conference talks published in the past week together with 86 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

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  1. “Beyond the AI Hype: What’s Real, What’s Next - Richard Campbell - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
    Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Feb 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 57s

    tldw: AI is in a hype cycle, but some of the stuff is already paying off in real products. So what’s real, what’s exaggerated and what’s next?

  2. “Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development with Steve Yegge” from Software Engineering Daily
    Podcast ⸱ Feb 12, 2026 ⸱ 01h 09m 52s

    tldl: AI coding has moved past copilot-style autocomplete into tools that can refactor entire repositories, run multi step tasks and work across systems. Steve argues the hard part is no longer typing code but steering the work: keeping context straight, breaking goals into tasks, checking results and making sure humans and many agents stay aligned.

  3. “Supercharged Testing: AI-Powered Workflows with Playwright + MCP - Debbie O’Brien” from NDC London 2026
    Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 26s

    tldw: This talk shows how to pair Playwright with the Playwright MCP server so an LLM can help write and maintain end to end tests. It runs through Playwright basics that matter in real suites like better locators, patterns that make tests less brittle, parallel runs and built in debugging. Then it demos AI assisted workflows like generating tests from a user flow, spotting missing coverage, repairing flaky failures and driving a live app with plain English commands.

  4. “How I Tamed Claude - Emmz Rendle - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
    Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Feb 09, 2026 ⸱ 01h 06m 11s

    tldw: A CTO shares a workflow for using Claude Code as a coding agent without losing control of the codebase. The core idea is to treat the model like a junior developer: give it a real requirements doc, break work into small steps, review every change and keep a running project log so you and the agent can pick up later without relying on a huge context window. The talk also argues that junior devs still matter, but the job shifts toward clear specs, feedback loops and humans staying accountable for what is being shipped.

  5. “GeeCON 2025: Marcin Chrost - Stream Gatherers - let’s get to know each other better!” from GeeCON 2025
    Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Feb 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 15s

    tldw: JDK 24 adds Stream Gatherers as a permanent Java feature, giving the Stream API a long missing middle step between map and collect. The talk shows how built in gatherers can make stream code clearer for common tasks and then walks through writing custom gatherers.

  6. “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Legacy Code - William Brander - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
    Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 15s

    tldw: Legacy code is treated like an old temple: dangerous to poke at but packed with business rules you will not get back from a rewrite. The talk walks through ways to explore a mystery codebase safely, like using source control history to learn why things got weird, adding tests around the edges before changing internals and refactoring in small steps so you can roll back fast. It also calls out warning signs like cursed files with constant churn and hidden dependencies and suggests using them as maps for where to add coverage and boundaries first. The main point: your job is not to “clean it up” in one heroic pass, it is to learn how it works and modernize it without breaking your customers’ trust.

  7. “Playing the long game - Sheena O’Connell - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
    Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 22s

    tldw: LLM tools are everywhere now but most people either buy the marketing or get stuck arguing about hype. This talk maps out the common characters showing up in teams, from the “AI ate my job” dev to the “ban it all” gatekeeper and argues the useful path is somewhere in the middle. It says LLMs can help with fast iteration and prototypes but results get messy on big brownfield systems, so teams need the same old basics: tests, reviews, tight feedback loops, clear ownership and guardrails for where these tools are allowed to touch production code. The main concern is the long game: if juniors mostly prompt and paste, they do not build judgment. The talk advocates for keeping the real junior work around and building training paths now so they still have senior engineers a few years from now.

  8. “The Fun Side of Advanced TypeScript: An Interactive Coding Session - Dante De Ruwe - NDC London 2026” from NDC London 2026
    Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Feb 11, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 47s

    tldw: This one is a live demo of what TypeScript type system can do. It plays with infer, recursive and conditional types, type level math and even a full Wordle clone done entirely in types. The point is not that you should write production code like this, but that these tricks teach you what the compiler can do and give you a few new tools that can occasionally save the day.

  9. “How to Run Any LLM On-Device With React Native by Szymon Rybczak | React Advanced London 2025” from React Advanced London 2025
    Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Feb 10, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 09s

    tldw: Running LLMs on device changes a lot: lower latency, better privacy and offline support without round trips to a server. This talk shows how to do it in React Native using react-native-ai, a wrapper that hides the platform specific details behind a provider setup. It walks through hooking up engines like MLC LLM and Apple foundation models, then covers what recently got better: debugging tools, tool calling and agent style pipelines. The focus is on what works today and the tradeoffs you take on when the model lives inside the app.

  10. “Why AI Projects Fail - Explore Top Reasons” from DevOps Podcasts
    Podcast ⸱ Feb 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 04m 18s

    tldl: A lot of AI projects fail in one of three ways: they never ship, they ship then get abandoned, or they ship but nobody trusts or uses them. The talk argues the model is rarely the real problem. Most failures come from the surrounding system like messy data pipelines, unclear success metrics, weak monitoring and feedback loops, bad integration into existing workflows and missing ownership for upkeep after launch.

📆 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.

  1. All Things Open 2025 (1)

  2. CSS Day 2025 (2)

  3. CityJS Athens 2025 (1)

  4. CityJS London 2025 (1)

  5. Clojure/Conj 2025 (4)

  6. Code BEAM Europe 2025 (1)

  7. CppCon 2025 (7)

  8. DDD Europe 2025 (1)

  9. Devoxx Poland 2024 (4)

  10. DjangoCon US 2025 (15)

  11. FARM 2025 (1)

  12. GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (2)

  13. GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025 (1)

  14. GeeCON 2025 (2)

  15. LeadDev Berlin 2025 (4)

  16. LeadDev New York 2025 (6)

  17. LeadDev Velocity 2025 (1)

  18. MQ Summit 2025 (1)

  19. Meeting C++ 2025 (2)

  20. NDC London 2025 (1)

  21. NDC London 2026 (29)

  22. NDC Manchester 2025 (7)

  23. NDC Oslo 2025 (6)

  24. PyData Boston 2025 (2)

  25. QCon London 2025 (3)

  26. React Advanced London 2025 (2)

  27. StaffPlus New York 2025 (6)

  28. TechLead London 2025 (1)

  29. TechLead London Conference 2025 (1)

  30. Vuejs Amsterdam 2025 (22)

  31. YOW! 2025 (1)

  32. gRPConf India 2025 (20)

  33. ng-conf 2025 (1)

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🗄️ New talks & podcasts by category

All the items from 📆 New talks and 📆 New podcasts organized by category.

  1. AI Engineering (89)

  2. AWS (7)

  3. Angular (1)

  4. BEAM (1)

  5. C# / .NET (9)

  6. C++ (9)

  7. Clojure (5)

  8. Data Engineering (5)

  9. Data Science / Machine Learning (3)

  10. Databases (6)

  11. DevOps (11)

  12. Django (15)

  13. Java (3)

  14. Kotlin (2)

  15. Kubernetes (6)

  16. Leadership (18)

  17. Misc (77)

  18. Mobile (6)

  19. Python (5)

  20. React (4)

  21. Ruby / Rails (1)

  22. Rust (1)

  23. Security (10)

  24. Software Architecture (13)

  25. Vue (14)

  26. Web / Frontend (22)

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]]><![CDATA[🏆 100 Most Watched Java Conference Talks Of 2025]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-java-conferencehttps://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-java-conferenceTue, 10 Feb 2026 16:14:31 GMTThe Conversations You Can't Stream. (Sponsored)

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Happy Tuesday 👋 and welcome to another special edition of Tech Talks Weekly!

Following tradition, I’ve prepared a list of the 100 most watched Java talks presented in 2025 across the conferences that I’m tracking, covering nearly every software development conference worldwide.

First of all, huge thanks to all the speakers and organizers, thanks to whom we have so much high-quality content to watch 🙏

2025 has been a fantastic year for Java culminating long-running efforts. We’ve had the JDK24 release where virtual threads became fully usable with no pinning followed by JDK25 (LTS). This means 2026 will be the year when we jump into the vibe of replacing CompletableFuture<T> with T across large legacy codebases with AI. Happy “topsy-turvying”!

Jokes aside, I think it’s an enormous improvement in the Java ecosystem and on that note, I’d also like to give a shoutout to who put together an excellent article about Everything you might have missed in Java in 2025. If you find it too long, at least scroll it for good memes!

Last but not least, if you’re curious how this list was built, this year I included the Behind the scenes section below.

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🏆 100 Most Watched Java Talks Of 2025

  1. “How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition”
    Paul Bakker • JavaOne 2025
    +280k views ⸱ Apr 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 43s

  2. “Where is the Java language going?”
    Brian Goetz • JavaOne 2025
    +67k views ⸱ Apr 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 31s

  3. “Know Your Java?”
    Venkat Subramaniam • JavaOne 2025
    +58k views ⸱ May 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 30s

  4. “Say Goodbye to Microservices, Say Hello to Self-Contained Systems by Simon Martinelli @ Spring I/O”
    Simon Martinelli • Spring I/O
    +49k views ⸱ May 30, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 58s

  5. “The New Java Best Practices by Stephen Colebourne”
    Stephen Colebourne • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +43k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 36s

  6. “Java for AI”
    Paul Sandoz • JavaOne 2025
    +39k views ⸱ May 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 48s

  7. “Real World Lean Java Practices, Patterns, Hacks, and Workarounds”
    Adam Bien • JavaOne 2025
    +37k views ⸱ May 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 10s

  8. “A Java Developer’s Guide to Navigating the Frontend Landscape”
    Dan Vega • JavaOne 2025
    +35k views ⸱ May 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 54s

  9. “Growing the Java Language #JVMLS”
    Brian Goetz • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +30k views ⸱ Aug 21, 2025 ⸱ 01h 20m 21s

  10. “AI/ML Introduction for Java Developers”
    Frank Greco • JavaOne 2025
    +30k views ⸱ Jun 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 31s

  11. “Java 24 - Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime”
    Nicolai Parlog • Jfokus 2025
    +26k views ⸱ Mar 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 33s

  12. “SQL, JSON, and Java”
    Josh Spiegel • JavaOne 2025
    +25k views ⸱ Apr 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 16s

  13. “Java 24, Faster Than Ever”
    Per Minborg • JavaOne 2025
    +22k views ⸱ May 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 50s

  14. “Apache Maven Survival Guide “Bring It On! -Mode””
    Richard Fichtner • JavaOne 2025
    +21k views ⸱ May 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 28s

  15. “A New Model for Java Object Initialization”
    Dan Smith • JavaOne 2025
    +20k views ⸱ Jul 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 23s

  16. “Pattern Matching in Java: Better Code, Better APIs”
    Dan Smith • JavaOne 2025
    +20k views ⸱ May 24, 2025 ⸱ 00h 37m 32s

  17. “Valhalla? Python? Withers? Lombok? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne’25”
    Ron Pressler, Paul Sandoz, Brian Goetz, Mark Reinhold, Dan Heidinga, Viktor Klang, Gary Frost, Alex Buckley, John Rose • JavaOne 2025
    +19k views ⸱ Dec 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 02s

  18. “Mastering JVM Memory Troubleshooting - From OutOfMemoryErrors to Leaks”
    Poonam Parhar • JavaOne 2025
    +19k views ⸱ May 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 32m 22s

  19. “JavaFX 24 and Beyond”
    Kevin Rushforth • JavaOne 2025
    +18k views ⸱ May 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 06s

  20. “From JDK 21 to JDK 25 - Java Performance Update 2025”
    Per Minborg • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +17k views ⸱ Oct 18, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 21s

  21. “Garbage Collection in Java: The Performance Benefits of Upgrading”
    Stefan Johansson • JavaOne 2025
    +17k views ⸱ May 13, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 35s

  22. “Stream Gatherers - Deep Dive with the Expert”
    Viktor Klang • JavaOne 2025
    +17k views ⸱ Apr 03, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 06s

  23. “Java for AI”
    Paul Sandoz • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +16k views ⸱ Oct 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 03s

  24. “Sequenced Collections - Deep Dive with the Expert”
    Stuart Marks • JavaOne 2025
    +16k views ⸱ Apr 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 19s

  25. “Preparing for the Java 21 Certification (or Learning New Features)”
    Jeanne Boyarsky • JavaOne 2025
    +16k views ⸱ Apr 17, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 46s

  26. “Serialization 2 0: A Marshalling Update!”
    Viktor Klang • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +15k views ⸱ Nov 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 05s

  27. “Dockerfiles, Jib ..., what’s the best way to run your Java code in Containers? by Matthias Haeussler”
    Matthias Haeussler • Voxxed Days Cern 2025
    +15k views ⸱ Feb 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 59s

  28. “Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA by Marit van Dijk”
    Marit van Dijk • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +15k views ⸱ Oct 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 30m 42s

  29. “Modular RAG Architectures with Java and Spring AI by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2025”
    Thomas Vitale • Spring I/O 2025
    +15k views ⸱ Aug 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 55s

  30. “Bootiful Spring Boot: the Deep Dive by Josh Long”
    Josh Long • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +14k views ⸱ Oct 07, 2025 ⸱ 03h 00m 57s

  31. “Marshalling: Data-Oriented Serialization”
    Viktor Klang • JavaOne 2025
    +13k views ⸱ Jul 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 04s

  32. “AI 202: Next-Level AI Mastery for Java Developers”
    Mark Heckler • JavaOne 2025
    +13k views ⸱ Apr 08, 2025 ⸱ 00h 53m 46s

  33. “There is a missing tool in your Java data structure toolkit – DataFrames!”
    Donald Raab, Vladimir Zakharov • JavaOne 2025
    +12k views ⸱ Dec 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 54s

  34. “Spring Boot: Chapter 4 by Brian Clozel, Stephane Nicoll”
    Brian Clozel, Stephane Nicoll • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +12k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 51s

  35. “JavaFX in the Web”
    Florian Kirmaier • JavaOne 2025
    +12k views ⸱ Jul 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 16s

  36. “From Final to Immutable: The not-so-final word on `final` #JVMLS”
    Maurizio Cimadamore • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +12k views ⸱ Aug 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 51s

  37. “Structured Concurrency in Action”
    Nicolai Parlog • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +11k views ⸱ Oct 16, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 34s

  38. “Interconnecting Java and Native Code with the FFM API”
    Per Minborg • JavaOne 2025
    +11k views ⸱ Jun 14, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 30s

  39. “Paths to Support Additional Numeric Types on the Java Platform #JVMLS”
    Joe Darcy, Brian Goetz • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +11k views ⸱ Sep 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 54m 51s

  40. “How Can Machine Learning Assist to Improve JVM Performance”
    Yagmur Eren • Jfokus 2025
    +11k views ⸱ Mar 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 14m 43s

  41. “Null Safety in Java with JSpecify and NullAway by Sébastien Deleuze @ Spring I/O 2025”
    Sébastien Deleuze • Spring I/O 2025
    +11k views ⸱ Jun 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 20s

  42. “How to Debug - Lessons Learnt from 10 Years of Spring Boot”
    Phil Webb • JavaOne 2025
    +10k views ⸱ Jun 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 48s

  43. “Supercharge your JVM Performance with Project Leyden and Spring Boot”
    Ana Maria Mihalceanu, Moritz Halbritter • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +10k views ⸱ Nov 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 20s

  44. “Writing GPU-Ready AI Models in Pure Java with Babylon”
    Ana Maria Mihalceanu, Lize Raes • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +10k views ⸱ Oct 25, 2025 ⸱ 00h 58m 58s

  45. “Project Leyden’s AOT - Shifting Java Startup into High Gear”
    Dan Heidinga • JavaOne 2025
    +9k views ⸱ Jun 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 58s

  46. “Java GPGPU Enablement: Are We There Yet?”
    Gary Frost • JavaOne 2025
    +9k views ⸱ Jul 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 39m 40s

  47. “The Evolution of Enterprise Java with Jakarta EE 11 and Beyond”
    Ivar Grimstad • JavaOne 2025
    +9k views ⸱ Jun 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 00s

  48. “Concerto for Java & AI - Building Production-Ready LLM Applications”
    Thomas Vitale • JavaOne 2025
    +9k views ⸱ Apr 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 11s

  49. “Java Turns 30 - Live from JavaOne 2025”
    Nicolai Vidstedt, Mikael Vidstedt, Viktor Klang, Vincent Mayers, Donald Raab, Chad Arimura • JavaOne 2025
    +9k views ⸱ Mar 21, 2025 ⸱ 01h 57m 38s

  50. “Java Next - Live from JavaOne 2025”
    Nicolai, Ana, Ron Pressler, Gavin Bierman, Paul Sandoz, Dr. Deprecator, Georges Saab • JavaOne 2025
    +8k views ⸱ Mar 19, 2025 ⸱ 01h 43m 08s

  51. “Devoxx Greece 2025 - Top REST API Design Pitfalls by Victor Rentea”
    Victor Rentea • Devoxx Greece 2025
    +8k views ⸱ Apr 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 05s

  52. “Garbage Collection in Java: Choosing the Correct Collector”
    Stefan Johansson • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +8k views ⸱ Nov 28, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 36s

  53. “A Sneak Peek at the Stable Values API”
    Per Minborg • JavaOne 2025
    +8k views ⸱ Jul 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 56s

  54. “Java Memory Leaks by Victor Rentea”
    Victor Rentea • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +7k views ⸱ Oct 08, 2025 ⸱ 02h 47m 22s

  55. “Tactical Domain Driven Design with Java and Spring by Oliver Drotbohm”
    Oliver Drotbohm • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +7k views ⸱ Oct 08, 2025 ⸱ 02h 42m 20s

  56. “Value Classes Heap Flattening - What to expect from JEP 401 #JVMLS”
    Frederic Parain • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +7k views ⸱ Oct 31, 2025 ⸱ 00h 31m 25s

  57. “Top 10 Event Driven Architecture Pitfalls by Victor Rentea”
    Victor Rentea • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +7k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 54s

  58. “Agent Orchestration with LangChain4J”
    Lize Raes • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +7k views ⸱ Nov 30, 2025 ⸱ 00h 15m 00s

  59. “Large Scale Changes with AI – Migrating millions of lines of Java to Kotlin at Uber | Ty Smith”
    Ty Smith • KotlinConf 2025
    +7k views ⸱ Aug 25, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 45s

  60. “Integrity by Default”
    Ron Pressler • JavaOne 2025
    +7k views ⸱ Nov 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 33s

  61. “Java Security Evolution - Out with the Old, In with the New”
    Sean Mullan • JavaOne 2025
    +7k views ⸱ Jul 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 40m 21s

  62. “Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA - Marit van Dijk”
    Marit van Dijk • Voxxed Days Zürich 2025
    +6k views ⸱ Mar 31, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 48s

  63. “From RAG to Enterprise AI Agents: Building Intelligent Java Apps”
    Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Mark Heckler • JavaOne 2025
    +6k views ⸱ Apr 19, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 07s

  64. “What Can a Java Developer Learn from Golang? by Grzegorz Piwowarek”
    Grzegorz Piwowarek • Voxxed Days Ticino 2025
    +6k views ⸱ Jan 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 44m 51s

  65. “Modern Java Development with Tip & Tail”
    Alex Buckley • JavaOne 2025
    +6k views ⸱ May 18, 2025 ⸱ 00h 35m 58s

  66. “Creating Cloud Native Capabilities Using the Latest Features from Java and the JVM”
    Cameron Purdy • JavaOne 2025
    +6k views ⸱ Jun 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 53s

  67. “Domain centric? Why Hexagonal, Onion and Clean architecture are answers to the wrong question by Oli”
    Oliver Drotbohm • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +6k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 03s

  68. “Building a Multiplatform SDKMAN in JavaFX”
    Jago de Vreede • JavaOne 2025
    +5k views ⸱ May 02, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 54s

  69. “Cracking the Code Review by Paco van Beckhoven”
    Paco van Beckhoven • Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
    +5k views ⸱ Apr 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 58s

  70. “Auto-Vectorization in HotSpot #JVMLS”
    Emanuel Peter • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +5k views ⸱ Aug 16, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 30s

  71. “Bootiful Spring Boot in 2025 by Josh Long”
    Josh Long • Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
    +5k views ⸱ Apr 07, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 11s

  72. “Pattern Matching, Under the Microscope”
    Angelos Bimpoudis • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +5k views ⸱ Oct 12, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 10s

  73. “Top Security Flaws Hiding in Your Code Right Now – and How to Fix Them”
    Jonathan Vila Lopez • JavaOne 2025
    +5k views ⸱ Jul 01, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 24s

  74. “Symbolic Modeling and Transformation of Java Code #JVMLS”
    Paul Sandoz • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +5k views ⸱ Nov 22, 2025 ⸱ 00h 25m 25s

  75. “The Psychology of Code by Victor Rentea”
    Victor Rentea • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +5k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 52m 55s

  76. “The Three Amigos in Java by Venkat Subramaniam”
    Venkat Subramaniam • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Oct 07, 2025 ⸱ 02h 52m 12s

  77. “Accelerating Maven Builds: From Snail’s Pace 🐌 to Rocket Speed 🚀 by Maarten Mulders”
    Maarten Mulders • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 15s

  78. “Beyond the Vector API - A Quest for a Lower Level API #JVMLS”
    Vladimir Ivanov • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Nov 15, 2025 ⸱ 00h 54m 13s

  79. “OAuth2, OpenID: SSO under the hood - Daniel Garnier-Moiroux”
    Daniel Garnier-Moiroux • Voxxed Days Zürich 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Mar 31, 2025 ⸱ 00h 42m 19s

  80. “Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values: Putting it all together by Balkrishna R”
    Balkrishna R • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 44m 54s

  81. “Getting the Most of Your Java Applications - The Value of Java for Enterprises”
    Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro • JavaOne 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Jun 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 43m 31s

  82. “ZGC - Paving the GC On-Ramp”
    Erik Österlund • JavaOne 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Jul 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 38m 37s

  83. “Weather the Storm: How Value Classes Will Enhance Java Performance by Remi Forax, Clément de Tast”
    Remi Forax, Clément de Tast • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Oct 09, 2025 ⸱ 00h 51m 12s

  84. “Helidon and AI - Building Intelligent Applications”
    @Helidon_Project, Daniel Kec • JavaOne 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Jun 11, 2025 ⸱ 00h 46m 11s

  85. “Assembling Project Leyden #JVMLS”
    John Rose, Dan Heidinga • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Oct 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 57s

  86. “Extending Functional Pipeline with Gatherers by Venkat Subramaniam”
    Venkat Subramaniam • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Oct 07, 2025 ⸱ 02h 28m 48s

  87. “Architecture as Code: Quantifying Architectural Trade offs by Neal Ford”
    Neal Ford • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 42s

  88. “Beyond Rust: Rethinking Java Efficiency with Quarkus”
    Holly Cummins • QCon London 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Mar 21, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 54s

  89. “Authorization in Spring Security: permissions, roles and beyond by Daniel Garnier Moiroux”
    Daniel Garnier Moiroux • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +4k views ⸱ Oct 08, 2025 ⸱ 02h 49m 21s

  90. “Evolving ZGC’s Pointer Color Palette #JVMLS”
    Erik Österlund • JVM Language Summit 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Oct 05, 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 20s

  91. “AI World: Georges Saab Unveils Java 25 for AI and Cloud”
    Georges Saab • Oracle AI World 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Oct 29, 2025 ⸱ 00h 09m 05s

  92. “Four Approaches to Reducing Java Startup Time: AppCDS, Native Image, Project Leyden, CRaC @ SpringIO”
    Pasha Finkelshteyn, Catherine Edelveis • Spring I/O 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Sep 04, 2025 ⸱ 00h 45m 12s

  93. “Optimizing Java Applications on Kubernetes: beyond the Basics”
    Bruno Borges • QCon Dev Summit 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Jan 06, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 47s

  94. “Three Cups of Java”
    Vincent Mayers • JavaOne 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Jun 26, 2025 ⸱ 00h 39m 57s

  95. “ONNX Based Generative AI LLMs in Java with Project Babylon”
    Adam Sotona • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Nov 24, 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 45s

  96. “Supercharge your JVM performance with Project Leyden and Spring Boot by Moritz Halbritter, Ana Maria”
    Moritz Halbritter, Ana Maria • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 48m 20s

  97. “Quarkus Unleashed by Roberto Cortez”
    Roberto Cortez • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 40s

  98. “Spring Boot Unwrapped: Exploring the Latest Features by Sergi Almar”
    Sergi Almar • Voxxed Days Ticino 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Jan 20, 2025 ⸱ 00h 41m 30s

  99. “Spec Driven Development Why your prompt chaos won’t scale by Simon Maple”
    Simon Maple • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 20s

  100. “Gen AI Grows Up: Enterprise JVM Agents With Embabel by Rod Johnson”
    Rod Johnson • Devoxx Belgium 2025
    +3k views ⸱ Oct 10, 2025 ⸱ 00h 50m 51s

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Behind the scenes

It took some effort to build this compilation. Here’s how I did it:

  1. I fetched all the talks from the conferences I’m tracking on 2026-02-07.

  2. I ran semantic search over the titles and descriptions as well as a full-text search based on various criteria (keywords present in the title/description etc.). This brought some false positives I later excluded manually.

  3. I excluded podcasts and any videos that were not conference talks.

  4. I generated transcripts for the remaining talks.

  5. Using an NLP model I extracted speaker names from the titles, descriptions and transcripts.

  6. Using Llama 3.2, I extracted conference names in the same fashion.

  7. I removed the duplicates. Some speakers presented the same talk at two or more conferences in 2025, so I kept only the talk with the higher number of views.

  8. Done!

Notes on the list

There’s been 1256 Java conference talks published in 2025. The talks you see above account for just 8% of what was published.

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This issue includes over 160 new conference talks published in the past week together with 68 new podcasts. That sounds like a lot, so make sure to check out both 🏆 Featured this week as well as 📈 Most-watched talks to find the ones you don’t want to miss.

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🏆 Featured this week

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

  1. “Keynote: Can you trust your (large language) model? - Jodie Burchell - NDC AI 2025” from NDC AI 2025
    Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jan 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 26s

    tldw: As LLMs and other “black box” models show up in more products, it gets harder to tell when their outputs are actually correct. The talk covers common ways models can mislead you like sounding confident while being wrong, looking good on a benchmark while failing in production, or passing offline tests but breaking after deployment because the data changed. The main message is to treat model results like any other system output: define what “correct” means for your use case, test with real data and real tasks, track errors over time, and set up checks so you notice when things drift or the model starts acting up.

  2. [Sponsored] Voxxed Days CERN 2026 is coming up on Feb 10, 2026 and the speaker lineup has just been announced. It’s a good time to plan how you’ll use your learning budget (if you have one 😉).

  3. “10 tips to level up your ai-assisted coding - Aleksander Stensby - NDC Manchester 2025” from NDC Manchester 2025
    Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jan 29, 2026 ⸱ 01h 02m 51s

    tldw: AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude Code can make you faster but only if you set them up right. This talk gives 10 concrete tips on prompts, context, debugging, testing, and MCP so you (or rather your assistant) can get more productive.

  4. “186: Becoming a Manager” from Programming Throwdown
    Podcast ⸱ Feb 03, 2026 ⸱ 01h 27m 30s

    tldl: This episode is about what the job actually is when you stop being an IC and start managing. The main point is that managers are judged on team results and keeping good people around, which means hiring well, setting clear goals and doing the unglamorous work like reviews, comp, coaching, and sometimes downsizing. It also covers why you might want the switch (mentorship, relationships, bigger org impact) and why you might not (less coding, less direct technical control, more open ended problems) as well as how to move back to engineering, if needed.

  5. “Introduction to AI Security - Jim Manico - NDC AI 2025” from NDC AI 2025
    Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jan 28, 2026 ⸱ 01h 00m 41s

    tldw: AI features add new security bugs like prompt injection, data leakage, and adversarial inputs. This talk explains how models work and what can we do about it.

  6. “Time is an Illusion - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman” from Book Overflow
    Podcast ⸱ Feb 02, 2026 ⸱ 01h 22m 00s

    tldl: This episode talks through why time is hard to reason about across machines, how clock drift and network delays mess with ordering and correctness, and why you often end up trading off consistency, availability, and latency. It also touches Byzantine failures, what consensus is really buying you, and why batch processing and Unix style pipelines still matter when you are building modern data systems.

  7. “Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Year Career” from The Peterman Pod
    Podcast ⸱ Jan 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 28s

    tldl: A long time big tech engineer talks through getting laid off after a 25 year career and what changed in the job over time. He compares earlier consulting work with big tech, why consultants often get blamed for messy code, and how compensation works when a big chunk is equity that can vanish anytime. He also argues layoffs are not a one off event, shares how age affected his willingness to take risks and move around.

  8. “The creator of Clawd: “I ship code I don’t read” from
    Podcast     ⸱ Jan 28, 2026 ⸱ 01h 54m 05s

    tldl: A solo developer behind the Clawdbot Moltbot OpenClaw project explains how he’s shipping at a pace that looks like a small company, mostly by leaning hard on Claude and Codex.

📆 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.

  1. CityJS London 2025 (1)

  2. CSS Day 2025 (1)

  3. CityJS Athens 2025 (3)

  4. Clojure/Conj 2025 (4)

  5. Code BEAM Europe 2025 (1)

  6. CppCon 2025 (5)

  7. DDD Europe 2025 (1)

  8. DevOpsCon 2025 (2)

  9. Devoxx Belgium 2025 (1)

  10. Devoxx Poland 2024 (3)

  11. DjangoCon US 2025 (14)

  12. GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025 (1)

  13. GeeCON 2025 (2)

  14. InfoQ Dev Summit 2025 (1)

  15. LeadDev Berlin 2025 (2)

  16. LeadDev New York 2025 (1)

  17. MQ Summit 2025 (1)

  18. Meeting C++ 2025 (1)

  19. NDC AI 2025 (11)

  20. NDC Manchester 2025 (24)

  21. PyData Boston 2025 (2)

  22. QCon London 2025 (1)

  23. StaffPlus New York 2025 (2)

  24. Swift Craft 2025 (1)

  25. Swift Craft 2026 (1)

  26. jChampions 2026 (7)

  27. ng-conf 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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🗄️ New talks & podcasts by category

All the items from 📆 New talks and 📆 New podcasts organized by category.

  1. AI Engineering (76)

  2. AWS (8)

  3. Angular (6)

  4. BEAM (1)

  5. C# / .NET (6)

  6. C++ (6)

  7. Clojure (4)

  8. Data Engineering (4)

  9. Data Science / Machine Learning (4)

  10. Databases (7)

  11. DevOps (6)

  12. Django (15)

  13. Java (17)

  14. Kotlin (2)

  15. Leadership (7)

  16. Misc (58)

  17. Mobile (5)

  18. Python (3)

  19. React (2)

  20. Ruby / Rails (1)

  21. Rust (1)

  22. Security (9)

  23. Software Architecture (9)

  24. Swift (3)

  25. Vue (1)

  26. Web / Frontend (10)

  27. Web Assembly (2)

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📈 Most-watched talks

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 91: 8,000 subscribers 🎉, S3 as a DB?!, Startup Software Architecture, Estimation is a waste of time, MCPs in Java, Spec-driven development, ...]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-91https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-91Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:02:28 GMTThe Technical Decisions That Don’t Make the Videos. (Sponsored)

You can watch the tech talks on LLMs and scalable architectures. What’s harder to find: the post-incident discussion, the trade-offs made, and what teams would do differently.

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Happy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #91!

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🏆 Featured this week

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  1. “Building a Serverless Database on S3: Lessons from Man Group” from QCon London 2025
    Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jan 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 26s

    tldw: A hedge fund ditched a huge MongoDB cluster and built a time series database straight on S3 with a thick client pushing 40GB/s. This talk explains the tradeoffs around atomicity, versioning, metadata, etc.

  2. “Estimation is a waste of time | Maria Chec” from LeadDev New York 2025
    Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jan 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 37s

    tldw: Story points and “perfect” estimates mostly turn into fake deadlines. This talk shows how a team switched to forecasting with real cycle time data to give ranges instead.

  3. “Building and Securing MCP Servers in Java” from jChampions 2026
    Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 59m 40s

    tldw: A live coding session showing how to build and secure MCP servers in Java.

  4. “Spec-driven Development: How AI Changed Everything (And Nothing)” from jChampions 2026
    Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 27, 2026 ⸱ 01h 04m 39s

    tldw: AI makes coding faster, but code still becomes the source of truth. This talk argues for spec first development where you write requirements once and let AI generate the diagrams, code, and tests.

  5. “From Scripts to Buy-In: How Small Clojure Wins Create Big Opportunities - Choomnuan” from Clojure/Conj 2025
    Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jan 21, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 31s

    tldw: If you want to sneak Clojure into your team, this talk shows how to win a buy-in by shipping tiny tools that fix real problems.

  6. “Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman” from QCon London 2025
    Podcast ⸱ Jan 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 00s

    tldl: This podcast is about making decisions with imperfect/unclear information and why you almost never throw away working code as the system grows. I recommend listening this one if you have ever wondered how to steer a messy early architecture without rewriting everything :)

  7. “How S3 is built” from The Pragmatic Engineer
    Podcast ⸱ Jan 21, 2026 ⸱ 01h 18m 14s

    tldl: S3 is one of the biggest distributed systems around (if not the biggest!), and this talk explains how it hits durability and availability across millions of servers, why it assumes failure by default. Watch it if you want to learn about large scale systems tradeoffs.

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  1. ACM SIGPLAN 2026 (233)

  2. CITYJS LONDON 2025 (1)

  3. CSS Day 2025 (1)

  4. CityJS Athens 2025 (4)

  5. Clojure/Conj 2025 (5)

  6. Code BEAM Europe 2025 (2)

  7. Conf42 DevOps 2026 (42)

  8. CppCon 2025 (5)

  9. DDD Europe 2025 (1)

  10. Devoxx Poland 2024 (3)

  11. DjangoCon US 2025 (14)

  12. EuroRust 2025 (1)

  13. GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1)

  14. GeeCON 2025 (5)

  15. LeadDev Berlin 2025 (2)

  16. LeadDev New York 2025 (2)

  17. MQ Summit 2025 (1)

  18. Meeting C++ 2025 (3)

  19. NDC AI 2025 (2)

  20. NDC Copenhagen 2025 (15)

  21. QCon London 2025 (2)

  22. React Advanced 2025 (1)

  23. RustConf 2025 (2)

  24. Seattle Rust User Group 2026 (1)

  25. StaffPlus New York 2025 (2)

  26. Swift Craft 2025 (2)

  27. jChampions 2026 (27)

  28. ng-conf 2025 (1)

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  1. AI Engineering (8)

  2. AWS (8)

  3. Angular (3)

  4. C# / .NET (4)

  5. C++ (36)

  6. Clojure (5)

  7. Data Engineering (1)

  8. Data Science / Machine Learning (2)

  9. Databases (4)

  10. DevOps (42)

  11. Django (14)

  12. Elixir (1)

  13. Java (31)

  14. Kotlin (1)

  15. Kubernetes (2)

  16. Leadership (6)

  17. Misc (219)

  18. Mobile (4)

  19. Python (3)

  20. React (4)

  21. Ruby / Rails (1)

  22. Rust (7)

  23. Security (13)

  24. Software Architecture (19)

  25. Swift (2)

  26. Vue (1)

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 90: Are your access tokens secure?!, Rust beyond memory safety, Leading teams in the GenAI era, Semantic search, ADHD productivity hacks, Evolution of security attacks ]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-90https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-90Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:01:04 GMTHappy Wednesday 👋 and a warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #90!

This week, we’ve got 128 talks from 34 conferences and 78 new podcast episodes.

I also decided to improve the structure of the newsletter. From now on, it includes:

  1. 🏆 Featured this week. Nothing changed here. For those of you who recently joined, it features the must-watch talks and podcasts of the week. It also contains a short hand-written summary which readers love as it saves them time!

  2. 📆 New talks now includes links to conferences where you can see all the recent talks ordered by number of views.

  3. 📆 New podcasts now includes a link to all the recent podcasts ordered by date.

  4. 🗄️ New talks & podcasts by category* now includes links to all the categories in this issue.

  5. 📈 Most-watched talks* includes a link to the most-watched talks in the past 7, 30, 90, 180, and 360 days.

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  1. “Are you sure your access tokens are really secure? - Wesley Cabus - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Jan 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 36s

    tldw: This talk exposes common validation mistakes that let attackers use forged tokens and shows the tests you can write to stop them.

  2. “Keynote: Rust is not about memory safety - Helge Penne - NDC TechTown 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jan 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 46m 06s

    tldw: This keynote argues that Rust’s type system (which is imo great) that includes typed error handling, lack of implicit conversions, Option and Result APIs, sum types, ... makes incorrect programs harder to write. Worth watching if you want to know why Rust community is so enthusiastic :)

  3. “Beyond the code: Leading engineering teams in the GenAI era | Addy Osmani | LeadDev New York 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 26m 20s

    tldw: The narrative that AI will replace engineers or solve all our problems is misleading. You’ll learn how engineering leaders should approach the “70% Problem”, i.e. how AI excels at routine coding tasks but still requires significant human expertise for the critical remaining 30% that makes the difference between functional code and excellent software.

  4. “Supercharged Search with Semantic Search and Vector Embeddings - Giorgi Dalakishvili”
    Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jan 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 55m 00s

    tldw: A hands-on walk through semantic search and vector embeddings. You will learn how to generate embeddings using large language models with OpenAI. Watch it if you want a really good getting started guide to building similarity search.

  5. “The Art of Focus: Managing Productivity with an ADHD Brain - Alyssa Nicoll - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Jan 19, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 45s

    tldw: People with ADHD have some really good ways to manage focus that everyone should know. You’ll learn practical tools like the Eisenhower Matrix, time blocking and yes bribery.

  6. “Leading without committing: Managing teams outside your tech stack | Robin Bonatesta | LeadDev NYC”
    Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jan 16, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 55s

    tldw: You don’t need to be the most technical person to lead an engineering team well. This talk shows how to build technical trust without being the deepest expert, set team processes that work across stacks and support engineer growth.

  7. “The Evolution of Security Attacks and Threats - Niall Merrigan - NDC Copenhagen 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 20, 2026 ⸱ 00h 54m 48s

    tldw: This talk will take you to the journey through the history of security attacks and will show you the evolution of security attacks and people’s response. You will learn that history repeats itself and how some of the most simple things in the world can be used to hack all the things.

  8. “How to Decentralize Architecture Decisions (Without Chaos)”
    Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Jan 15, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 40s

    tldw: See a practical case study of moving from “ivory tower” architecture to a decentralized decision process. It shows how Team Topologies, DDD context maps and ADRs helped six teams make decisions independently and what role “Architecture Advisory Forum” played.

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]]><![CDATA[💥 Issue 89: Web scraping in Python, Future of React, Hacking AI, Micro-frontends scalability, Rust @ Volvo, Pub/Sub security, DSPy, Interviewing in AI era, Leading when everything is on fire]]>https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-89https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/issue-89Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:17:43 GMTHappy Thursday 👋 and warm welcome to Tech Talks Weekly #89!

Last week, I launched Tech Talks Weekly Plus and your response has been incredible! More than 2200 of you have already visited it, and it’s been awesome to see so many of you decide to subscribe and support the project.

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  1. “Vladimír Dušek - Dealing with today’s web scraping challenges in Python (PyData Prague #32)”
    Conference ⸱ +600 views ⸱ Jan 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 47s

    tldw: Web scraping keeps getting tougher with IP and geographic blocking, JavaScript rendering, device and browser fingerprinting and CAPTCHAs. This talk shows how Crawlee, an open source Python library from Apify, helps you work around those mechanisms.

  2. “Hacking AI Systems: How to (Still) Trick Artificial Intelligence • Katharine Jarmul • GOTO 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Jan 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 35m 21s

    tldw: See how easy it still is to fool modern AI, with attack examples and notebooks to try yourself.

  3. “Rust at Volvo Cars - Julius Gustavsson - NDC TechTown 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +4k views ⸱ Jan 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 04s

    tldw: Volvo Cars shipped an ECU fully written in Rust; this talk shows how they did it and why Rust belongs in cars.

  4. “Scaling Micro‑Frontends Without Coupling | AWS Strategies | Luca Mezzalira”
    Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Jan 12, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 28s

    tldw: Scaling micro frontends across hundreds of teams without tight coupling is possible. Tips: favor team independence over shared code, use coarse-grained splitting, build tech-agnostic “shells”, move discovery to the edge with CDN, ...

  5. “Predictable is better than fast | Chris Bigelow | LeadDev New York 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 08, 2026 ⸱ 00h 11m 39s

    tldw: Choosing predictability over raw speed actually makes teams faster and systems easier to work with. This talk walks through real examples and concrete tactics for building stable workflows, tooling and team practices.

  6. “Leading sustainably when everything is on fire | Denise Yu | LeadDev New York 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 27m 19s

    tldw: This talk explains how to build and spend organizational capital to keep teams afloat when layoffs and hiring freezes make everything feel chaotic. Watch it if you lead engineers or want practical “real-world” ways to keep your team functioning under pressure.

  7. “Securing your messaging networks: What needs protecting and how? - Rob Parker | MQ Summit 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 46s

    tldw: This talk shows which parts of your messaging network actually need protecting and gives concrete steps to secure brokers, topics and connections.

  8. “DSPy: The End of Prompt Engineering - Kevin Madura, AlixPartners”
    Conference ⸱ +24k views ⸱ Jan 08, 2026 ⸱ 01h 13m 13s

    tldw: This talk shows how DSPy replaces fragile prompt engineering with typed Signatures, modular Modules and Optimizers that automatically tune programs for real-world tasks.

  9. “7 Painful and Funny Tech Lead Stories to Improve Productivity • Marek Dominiak • Devoxx Poland 2024”
    Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Jan 09, 2026 ⸱ 00h 51m 42s

    tldw: Seven funny and painful tech lead stories about seniority, questioning requirements and talking to business.

  10. “Rethinking interviewing in an AI era | Justin Lee | LeadDev Berlin 2025”
    Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Jan 13, 2026 ⸱ 00h 25m 59s

    tldw: AI is making many classic interview puzzles meaningless so this talk shows how to design human centered interviews that reveal how candidates think through ambiguity, weigh trade offs and communicate decisions. Worth watching if you interview or hire engineers.

  11. “What’s The Framework of the React Future?”
    Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Jan 07, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 54s

    tldw: Framework builders and tool authors argue which React framework patterns will win, compare routing, bundling and server rendering and show what changes for building real apps.

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