LeadDev West Coast 2023
2023-10-16..2023-10-17
Oakland, United States
as the organisers put it
Welcome to LeadDev. Engineering leaders have never been under more pressure to deliver results with fewer resources and tighter timelines. Optimizing software delivery is both a technical and social challenge. LeadDev explores all of the ways that you can improve the effectiveness of your software delivery ecosystem: your team, working methods, and technology. Established in […]
who it's for
engineering managers, engineering leaders, technical leads, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, product managers
topics
DORA signals and metrics; cycle time measurement; GraphQL introspection; ID + __typename normalized cache; CI/CD for on-prem and SaaS; Go backend rewrite and migration; Fastly edge caching; GraphQL gateway adoption; incident responder rotation protocol; burnout mitigation with BICEPS
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Lena Reinhard at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Lena Reinhard | 34m |
Claims a shift from vague “efficiency” to concrete tradeoffs between Effectiveness and efficiency and gives a repeatable process: map the org, set clear… | ||
| Luis Vega at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Luis Vega | 25m |
Creates a team that owns and rewrites Bloomberg’s internal JavaScript/TypeScript apps used across thousands of engineers, hires mostly via internal referrals… | ||
| Scott Carey & Rebecca Murphey at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Scott Carey, Rebecca Murphey | 16m |
A new LeadDev-commissioned report presents data from 600+ engineering managers and claims teams still struggle to measure performance because common frameworks… | ||
| Jeff Auriemma at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Jeff Auriemma | 11m |
Claims that GraphQL turns APIs into self‑documenting, designer‑friendly surfaces and makes experiments fast: the introspection ability plus a GraphQL IDE lets… | ||
| Amanda Sopkin at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Amanda Sopkin | 12m |
Three concrete tactics for adapting management practices to individuals: start one on ones with personal talk and count to 15 or 20 to give slow thinkers… | ||
| Adam Berman at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Adam Berman | 24m |
Built the second product at semgrep from a small cross‑functional startup team into multiple teams, documenting the concrete trade-offs: split into two teams… | ||
| Suzanne Livingston at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Suzanne Livingston | 26m |
IBM’s Maximo product moves a 300‑developer org from long release cycles to continuous delivery by aligning 25 squads on a tight priority list, opening… | ||
| Jasmine Oliveira at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Jasmine Oliveira | 11m |
Chooses to testably reduce fear of metrics by running joint experiments with individual contributors at jellyfish and keeping outcomes concrete: adopts monthly… | ||
| Brian Genisio at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Brian Genisio | 11m |
Khan Academy completes a full backend rewrite called Goliath over 3.5 years, replacing over one million lines of code, moving from Python 2.7 to Go, monolith… | ||
| Scott Triglia at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Scott Triglia | 25m |
2016 core-system rewrite faces two straight weeks of game‑breaking rollouts and one senior engineer leaving then after a year and a half the migrated system… | ||
| Lexi Galantino at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Lexi Galantino | 10m |
Build specific habits: require stakeholders to answer when do you need this by, set and publish response targets (example: 10‑minute incident SLA), funnel true… | ||
| Shelly Stuart at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Shelly Stuart | 25m |
Claim: chronic stress is shrinking team effectiveness and 42.1% of tech workers sit at high burnout risk. Concrete tools: use one‑on‑ones as early diagnostic… | ||
| Tara Ellis at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Tara Ellis | 31m |
Claim: leading after a 12 year boom requires shifting from management to active leadership because markets reverse and hiring costs and risks spike. Evidence… | ||
| Liz Hustedt at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Liz Hustedt | 19m |
Outlines concrete steps: classify presenter and attendee archetypes, set a pre-conference goal, capture takeaways and distill each talk into one to four… | ||
| Lorenzo Saino at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Lorenzo Saino | 22m |
Asserts code-review assignments outperform live coding and long take-homes by giving a realistic task: a self-contained PR of ~300 lines of Go seeded with bugs… | ||
| Plum Ertz at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Plum Ertz | 10m |
Argues that accessibility belongs in the MVP by showing concrete wins not abstractions citing 25% of Americans as a market signal and a surprising audit… | ||
| Prashant Verma at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Prashant Verma | 11m |
Claims a repeatable onboarding playbook: create a personal user manual and share it on Google Drive, run a meetings audit that classifies meetings into email /… | ||
| Hywel Carver at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Hywel Carver | 25m |
Claims that LLMs already handle implementation and boilerplate extremely well and will make ticket-to-code work near-instant, while humans must keep… | ||
| Erin Sardo LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Erin Sardo | 10m |
Claims a clear operational role: a Release Captain owns engineering milestones, rollout and rollback plans, and aggregates feature owners rather than doing… | ||
| Sanghamitra Goswami at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Sanghamitra Goswami | 22m |
Claims that a small team moved from “scrappy to scale” in 3–6 months, leveraging existing investments: a data Lake and an ML pipeline that cut model-to-prod… | ||
| Jemiah Sius at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Jemiah Sius | 22m |
A team migrates a legacy PHP system to Laravel and React in an API-first design, grows to 10,000 users, then discovers outages via Twitter and decides to shift… | ||
| Davy Stevenson at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Davy Stevenson | 10m |
Lists five failure modes — uneven participation, topic too broad, unprepared attendees — and prescribes concrete fixes: pick one meeting purpose, publish an… | ||
| Thayse Onofrio at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Thayse Onofrio | 23m |
Starts by extracting a small feature: extract to separate repo and publish as npm package which cuts PR conflicts but keeps version and deployment coupling… | ||
| Francisco Trindade at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Francisco Trindade | 30m |
Teams behave as systems: measuring ticket lifecycles in GitHub and JIRA shows a ticket spending more than 50% of its seven‑day life waiting; introducing… | ||
| Matthew Hawthorne at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Matthew Hawthorne | 22m |
Argues concrete power moves: ask questions instead of statements to postpone a meeting (moves a “no‑meetings” day by one day), I'll take the blame if something… | ||
| Emily Thomas at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | Emily Thomas | 14m |
New manager steps into a troubled Scala team and uses four concrete tactics to turn things around: connect (personal one‑on‑ones), gain technical respect (read… | ||
| How much is that API call in the window? | Mark Robinson | 22m |
Cloud spend basics and hard numbers: a $30/hr instance equals one engineer salary, 10% savings funds hires, and at ~$100k/month start now while at ~$1M/month… | ||
| Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT | Evan Morikawa | 27m |
Launch day is November 30 2022 then Japan and an Elon tweet spike traffic the next day exposing a hard GPU cap that shows up as a visible fail whale page… | ||
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