Topics

Designing systems that hold up over time — distributed systems, DDD, event sourcing, API design, and managing technical debt.

• system design
• distributed systems
• domain-driven design
• DDD
• event sourcing
• CQRS
• +12

Deep dives into the languages and frameworks teams actually ship — syntax, runtime internals, compiler design, and language evolution.

• Rust
• Go
• Python
• TypeScript
• Java
• C++
• +15

Catching defects before users do — TDD, fuzzing, property-based testing, code review practices, and the broader quality discipline.

• test-driven development
• TDD
• unit testing
• integration testing
• end-to-end testing
• property-based testing
• +13

Making engineers fast and happy — tooling, AI-assisted coding, monorepos, build systems, docs, and the platforms behind them.

• developer productivity
• developer tooling
• IDE plugins
• AI-assisted coding
• Copilot
• Cursor
• +13

Pipelines, warehouses, and lakes — moving data reliably between systems, with quality, governance, and orchestration along the way.

• data pipelines
• ETL
• ELT
• stream processing
• Kafka
• Flink
• +21

Making software faster, leaner, and more concurrent — profiling, caching, query tuning, runtime tricks, and Core Web Vitals.

• application performance
• profiling
• benchmarking
• load testing
• stress testing
• optimization techniques
• +12

Leading technical teams — managers and staff engineers, hiring, culture, organization design, and engineering metrics that matter.

• engineering management
• VP of Engineering
• Director of Engineering
• CTO strategy
• team building
• hiring engineers
• +15