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"You can’t change the laws of physics" — unless you’re a SW Eng with a deadline 😅 In this brilliant talk, @KevlinHenney explores the physical limits behind software, scalability, complexity & why reality always wins Smart, funny & painfully relatable 👉 youtu.be/lMZ7I3fQzVs?li…

What if the first thing you built with code was music instead of a TODO app? @samaaron joins James Lewis to talk about Sonic Pi and a surprisingly simple idea: People learn differently when coding feels creative. 🎧 Listen to this #GOTOpodcast episode: gotopia.tech/podcast

The last Java concurrency book came out 20 years ago. A lot has changed. @bazlur_rahman joins @mpredli to talk virtual threads, structured concurrency, RX — and why your framework has been hiding the hard stuff from you. Time to look under the hood 👇 youtu.be/8G8jeAUYLAQ?li…

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AI agents are cool until they: • hallucinate • loop forever • ignore your tools • confidently lie😅 @antonarhipov shows how to build more reliable AI agents in #Kotlin using typed workflows, orchestration, DSLs, structured outputs & local LLMs. Watch: youtu.be/Lq1lZRhsZjs?li…

"Serverless" used to mean uploading ZIPs in a console. 😅 Now? Remote debugging, observability, VS Code integrations, OpenTelemetry, Step Functions, Lambda Layers & far better DevEx. @zachjonesnoel explains how modern serverless development works. Watch: youtu.be/oItac1VPsso?li…

The VERY FIRST event I aver did for AWS was @GOTOcon #Chicago. Now, 9 years later I am headed back! My talk - Finding Determinism in a Non-Deterministic World

#GOTOpodcast: @willmcgugan joins @olimpiupop to talk about Toad, his terminal-based UI for AI coding agents. • proper markdown rendering • syntax highlighting • clean streaming output • AI and shell workflows in the same place All in the terminal. 🎧gotopia.tech/podcast

Richard Feldman rewrote the #Roc compiler from scratch in #Zig. @rtfeldman and @AnjanaVakil talk about Roc v1 being on the horizon — the first ever numbered release. Two smart people, no slides, no filter. 👇 youtu.be/XSXGf3oN2yU?li… #FunctionalProgramming #ProgrammingLanguages

Leadership in tech is hard… Leading in turbulent times? Even harder 👀 Daniel Terhorst-North, @sarahjwells & @patkua share hard-earned lessons on navigating uncertainty, teams & change 👇 youtu.be/wqztpXI0zJc?li… #Leadership #TechLead #TechLeadership #Change

#GOTOpodcast: @jeanneboyarsky sits down with @Ian_Darwin to talk about Java, books & AI. -> why battle-tested tools usually win -> reading the code still matters -> why AI-generated code without understanding is a bad habit waiting to scale 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

5M users refreshing for tickets. 500M streaming at once. How do you scale for THAT without outages or insane costs? Janak Agarwal explains real-world serverless patterns for extreme scale — and why sometimes the answer is literally: do nothing. Watch: youtu.be/tKO29SA7CAU?li…

The biggest impact on your career isn’t always code 👀 It’s the stuff you thought didn’t matter. @holly_cummins breaks down the hidden factors shaping your job 👇 youtu.be/OkVjqwkveiY?li… #SoftwareEngineering #Career #DeveloperLife #Tech

AI agents are everywhere… but how do you actually build them in the real world? 👀 Serverless + agents + real tooling (Strands SDK, MCP, AWS) — no fluff, just practice. Akshatha Laxmi breaks it down 👇 youtu.be/CY2VPHMhD0U?li… #AI #Serverless #Cloud #LLM #SoftwareEngineering

@MGrzejszczak & @JakubPilimon discuss how typo broke production and the fix became a framework. They also look at where this is going next. Capture real traffic, generate contracts automatically, and let people review what matters. 🎧 #GOTOpodcast: gotopia.tech/podcast

Half the industry is at level 1 of architecture diagram maturity. That means: nothing. Just vibes & boxes. @simonbrown, creator of the #C4Model, explains what lvls 2 – 5 look like & how to get there. Spoiler: you need to stop diagramming & start modeling youtu.be/FqTL-_tLf6I?li…

"A loyalty card isn't loyalty. It's entrapment." @KenHughesIE on ROI of caring, why your employee IS your first customer & the AI shift that changes everything about how we connect at scale. You won't see Customer Experience the same way after this 👇 youtu.be/qrcVvo6BQVw?li…

#GOTOpodcast: Most API problems start below the API. @samnewman & Lukasz Dynowski go deep: • network and protocol basics • public vs internal APIs • “API as a product” is not optional anymore • binary vs text is rarely a simple performance choice 🎧gotopia.tech/podcast

What really drives productivity in dev teams? 👀 It’s not what you think… Most teams focus on perks, tools, or process — but miss the 3 things that actually matter. @ledovaya explains 👇 youtu.be/y0j9rzME8YY?li… #Leadership #DeveloperExperience #Productivity

Charts look great…but can everyone use them? 👀 What if your data viz is completely inaccessible to part of your audience? At @yow_conf Frank Elavsky explored accessible & interactive data experiences — beyond the defaults 👇 youtu.be/uDrlUF-KXeY?li… #Accessibility #UX