Managing toil as you scale
Create a healthy balance for SRE teams when scaling as an engineering org


Episodes
How to manage toil as you scale

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Fixing and preventing high-toil environments

Three steps for managing toil as you scale

What is toil and why is it damaging your engineering org?

Four things you need to know about managing toil as you scale
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Using observability to detangle and understand production
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Documenting and communicating architectural decisions
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The future of cross-platform is native
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Breaking down our understanding of system resilience

Principles for managing product quality

Designing software to maximize developer productivity

Navigating front-end architecture like a Neopian

Shor's algorithm and how to avoid oncoming catastrophes

Building a culture of security for your infrastructure teams

Mobile development 10 years on: native vs. cross-platform

Rejecting the black box: examining the implications and practicalities of testing AI

Identifying and articulating the role of AI in your software design process

The possibility of AI-powered Javascript apps

The benefits of delivering imperfect software

Introduction to functional programming

Using an 'architectural North Star' to align your engineering team with your organization

Handling security issues as an engineering team

Lessons for frontend development at scale
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Scaling at the speed of COVID-19: lessons from the front lines of virtual healthcare

The Boring Stack

The problem with "the platform"
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How demand shaping can reduce the carbon cost of our applications

How simplifying software can save your engineering teams' time
Changing attitudes toward legacy code


Living without pre-production environments
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Supporting employees through redundancies and business closures
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Hypothesis-driven development

Better Allies: Karen Catlin in conversation
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A primer on engineering delivery metrics
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Accessibility from the start

How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage

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Working in public: Nadia Eghbal in conversation
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Writing accessible code

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How to unify speed and quality in software engineering
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Scaling held knowledge to unblock teams and untangle software complexity

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Learnings from 'Managing complexity at scale'

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Measuring app stability to reduce technical debt
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Building realistic roadmaps for tech debt cleanup

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Evaluating when it’s time to tackle technical debt


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Learnings from 'Tackling technical debt'

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Implementing a plan to clean up technical debt

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Achieving speed and quality without sacrifice in engineering
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Learnings from 'Maintaining speed while minimizing risk'

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Getting GitOps right

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Delivering frontend experiences safely and continuously

Gathering requirements: techniques for building a solid backlog
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Embracing simplicity in your engineering team

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Streamlining the management of multiple websites and apps

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ICON Framework: Creating Value From Machine Learning

A tour of decisions in event-driven architecture

What VCs want us to know as technical leaders
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Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy


The Container Operator's Manual
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Developing Single Page Apps in mid-sized companies
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Legacy code: Big Rewrite or Progressive Rejuvenation?

Strategies to Edit Production Data

An intro to functional programming

Improving Reliability with Error Budgets and Site Reliability Engineering
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Better Incident Management to Reduce MTTR

Creating Architecture and Teams at Less-than-Google Scale

Everything You Need to Know About OpenAPI 3.0 in Ten Minutes or Less

Planning, executing, and landing refactoring

Vault and Security as a Service

Building Tech for the Non-Technical

Case studies in building microservices

Intro to test-driven development

Dealing with deprecated codebases

How to build a fully serverless application

Creating observable microservices
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The challenges and rewards of distributed teams


What engineering leaders need to know about blockchain

Starting, executing, and landing big rewrites

The journey from monolith to microservices

Writing Modular CSS with CSS modules

Telling stories through your commits

The importance of pragmatism when building and maintaining systems

The technical journey to microservices

Building replicable dev environments with Docker
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Cheerful deployments with CI/CD pipelines

Investing in your accessibility workflow
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Avoiding the pitfalls of rebuilding software


Tradeoffs on the road to observability
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Conversations you need to have before moving from monoliths to microservices

Avoiding “shiny object” syndrome when building software
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Building and conveying vision


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Creating technology products that your customers love


Managing technical risk
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Four key metrics for measuring DevOps success
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Measuring and improving the efficiency of software delivery


Carbon proxies: measuring the greenness of your application

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Five ways data make engineering teams stronger

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To build, or to buy, that is the question

Traps on the Path to Microservices
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Traps on the Path to Microservices
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Universal Apps: Architecture for the Modern Web
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How to fix a terrible on-call system
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Designing for money and happiness in large-scale open source

The thin line between technology advocacy and ideology
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The migration trap in software engineering

Strategies for inclusive product design
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Carving a modern engineering org out of an enterprise


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Living with legacy: landing boring change smoothly
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Forging the path to faster shipping in enterprise orgs
Driving inclusion with explainable artificial intelligence

Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production

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Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs buy
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Accelerating the journey from monolith to microservices

Fostering a sustainable scaling strategy


Serverless is the new LAMP stack
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Laying the foundations for a successful build

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Sourcing the perfect product for your team
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Best practice for seamless product integration
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A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack

When planning long-term, favor accuracy over precision

Making ‘Big Changes’ Successfully
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Building a successful and sustainable CI/CD pipeline


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Getting your engineers on board with observability

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Scaling engineering in tough times
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Outages are coming for you

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Building security into your engineering workflow


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Learnings from 'Carving a modern engineering org out of an enterprise’
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How low (level) can you go
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Executing and evaluating a technical strategy at scale

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Using Open Source safely and effectively


Top 10 ideas to take into 2022
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How to build software that’s ready for the handoff

The principles and habits of healthy software

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How to manage toil as you scale

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How technologists can reduce our ecological footprint
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Four ways to empower your team through data

How to empower your open source users and contributors

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Four things you need to know from ‘Using open source safely and effectively’
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How to redesign your architecture to reduce technical debt

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How to make your team fall in love with legacy code

Five ways to care for your open source contributors

How to break the cycle of tech debt

How to estimate and communicate timelines when building software

Introducing quality ratchets: A tool for managing complex systems

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How Eve Online uses observability to ease migrations
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How to refactor legacy systems by creating application seams

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Introducing AIOps: The new trend for repairing software issues

How to get engineering teams on board with accessibility
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What is tech debt and how can you explain it to non-technical peers?

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Ways your teams can (realistically) prioritize code quality


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The five stages of digital maturity

Fixing broken windows: How to deal with legacy systems

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Switching cloud infrastructure solutions? Follow these three steps.

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A guide to measuring and improving code quality
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How to bring order to chaos engineering
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Five reasons you shouldn’t rewrite that code

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The four pillars of code health

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The workflow metrics that make elite dev teams

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Using cooperative gaming to drive positive engineering change

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How to pay down your monitoring debt

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What makes a front-end developer in 2023?

The case for and against building ChatGPT into your developer workflow

Observability for engineering managers

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Will ChatGPT and generative AI replace internal code documentation?

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Riding the ever-changing waves of front-end development

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The business case for headless CMS - a quick guide for developers

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The relationship between observability, OpenTelemetry, and UX

Kubernetes for engineering managers

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Solving the mean time to repair problem

The essential tools for software engineering managers

Let's mitigate bias in tech

When to migrate from a monolithic to a distributed frontend architecture

Can platform engineering help you do more with less?

SRE for engineering managers

7 generative AI productivity hacks for developers

The 6 biggest generative AI risks for developers

Tech debt traps to avoid
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11 generative AI programming tools for developers

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What AI has to offer: Using LLM tools in interviews


Tech debt for engineering leaders: How a shortcut today impacts tomorrow

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How are engineering orgs achieving reliability in 2023?


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Architecting for profit: A blueprint for modern cloud economics

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3 strategies for maximizing your cloud savings

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Building a cloud architecture that can scale to any challenge

Balancing build vs buy decisions in a post-boom world

How OpenAI fought off security threats and GPU shortages to scale ChatGPT


What you need to know about Biden’s AI executive order

How test coverage can improve code quality
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6 steps to addressing legacy enterprise code

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A journey to tackle legacy code in online travel

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Learning to live with legacy code

Whatever happened to Big Data?

Leading open-source teams in large organizations
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