The Lead Developer Austin 2018
2018-12-06
Austin, United States
[The Lead Developer London 2015, The Lead Developer New York 2017, The Lead Developer New York 2018, The Lead Developer London 2018, The Lead Developer Austin 2018, The Lead Developer New York 2019, The Lead Developer London 2019]
who it's for
technical leads, engineering managers, team leads, senior software engineers, platform engineers, developer experience leads
topics
Kotlin on the JVM; code review workflows; incremental refactoring strategies; team conflict resolution techniques; running effective retrospectives; building globally distributed teams; interviewing and hiring for inclusion; GraphQL client-driven APIs; Apache Pulsar architecture; streaming data with Kafka; data warehouse choices; feature-flagged large rewrites
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Navigating team friction | Lara Hogan | 30m |
Team friction is normal yet costly and fixable: teams of 2–200 repeatedly cycle through forming–storming–norming–performing, and unresolved conflict can lead… | ||
| Is Kotlin right for you? | Todd Ginsberg | 11m |
Kotlin is a pragmatic JVM language that claims to eliminate whole classes of defects by design, most notably null safety via safe-call and Elvis operators, and… | ||
| Code reviews, for the culture | Erica Stanley | 28m |
Company uses SalesLoft workflow where code reviews are the engineering workflow and shape culture: pull requests with labels and emojis, code owners github… | ||
| How to get away with refactoring | Maude Lemaire | 28m |
Slack faces escalating scale from 2M to 6M DAUs and fixes a chronic morning-outage pattern by changing the data model for channels and membership. Key outcomes… | ||
| Building and scaling distributed teams | Katie Womersley | 15m |
Buffer builds a globally distributed engineering org that yields 40%+ team growth while hiring from pools of up to 1,500 applicants and reaching 40% women… | ||
| Bootstrapping inclusion | Jason Wong | 25m |
An engineering org of 35 with five women four Hispanics one LGBTQ and no Black engineers becomes the baseline; cited studies (McKinsey 21% profitability… | ||
| Suplexes and superpowers | Kevin Stewart | 20m |
Shows that storytelling maps to concrete leadership moves: uses Tuckman's stages by tracing the Avengers to forming storming norming performing, treats… | ||
| Why GraphQL? | Chris Arcand | 12m |
GitHub’s GraphQL API shows that clients request exact shapes and get matching JSON, enabling a client-centric workflow rather than fetching whole resources… | ||
| Zero to data infrastructure | Brad Urani | 31m |
Explains how streaming with Kafka gives multiplexing, replay and a two-week retention window, recommends managed Kafka and S3 as cheap immutable backups, lays… | ||
| A retro of retros: how Sprint retrospectives can be both fun and productive | Cecy Correa | 09m |
Team runs a quarterlong experiment where each member leads a different retro format, trying Three Little Pigs, hot‑air balloon, Story Oscars, and confidence vs… | ||
| Experiential learning for developers | Allison McMillan | 22m |
A concrete six‑part formula claims to let anyone design a workshop fast: goals trigger discussion conclusion plus clear supporting materials and a full… | ||
| A tour of Apache Pulsar | Jowanza Joseph | 10m |
Apache Pulsar is a distributed pub/sub system develop at Yahoo! Architecture splits state in Apache Zookeeper, processing on Pulsar nodes and long‑term logs in… | ||
| Eiffel's tower | Nickolas Means | 37m |
A concrete checklist of what happened and why it mattered: Gustave Eiffel delivers a 300‑meter iron tower in 22 months using precise factory drawings, on‑site… | ||
| nothing matches | ||