This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Robert-Jan Huijsman - Founding Engineer at Reboot.dev @RobertJanHuijsman RESOURCES https://twitter.com/rjhacks https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-jan-huijsman-8a428b60 ABSTRACT When you build a company whose mission is to make developers more productive, and all its employees are themselves developers, what you get is surely the holy grail of developer experiences? Well... yes and no. Join RJ for a review of lessons learned while building Reboot.dev, of challenges Reboot.dev (and the industry!) must still tackle, and what the future of developer productivity looks like if we get it right (or wrong). [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:27 How to overcome friction in humaning 09:01 How to overcome friction in coding 16:38 Nondeterminism in humaning 20:13 Nondeterminism in coding 32:29 Summary 35:11 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3736 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Joakim Sunden & Marcus Hammarberg • Kanban in Action • https://amzn.to/3n1Fmna Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang & Ya Xu • Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments • https://amzn.to/3JlY4NZ Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/3C0Rj0C Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Lean Software Development • https://amzn.to/3CxlMUq Marty Cagan • Inspired • https://amzn.to/3dPz7iq Marty Cagan • Empowered • https://amzn.to/42kuKAj https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences DeveloperProductivity #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #RobertJanHuijsman #RJHuijsman #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble https://conissaunce.com Links https://www.iea.org/energy-system/buildings/data-centres-and-data-transmission-networks#tracking https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sustainability/report https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf https://www.epa.gov/climatechange-science/causes-climate-change https://app.electricitymaps.com/map https://www.conissaunce.com/demand-shifting-and-shaping https://thenewstack.io/why-tech-professionals-must-lead-the-charge-on-genai-safety https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6128960 https://thenewstack.io/ai-at-the-edge-federated-learning-for-greater-performance https://github.com/google/aqt https://research.google/blog/looking-back-at-speculative-decoding https://thenewstack.io/ebooks/cloud-infrastructure/developers-guide-to-cloud-infrastructure-efficiency-and-sustainability-2 ABSTRACT After considering the significance of the carbon footprint of AI, Charles will offer practical strategies to reduce environmental impact at each stage of the AI lifecycle. These strategies include using smaller datasets, leveraging transfer learning, employing model compression techniques, and considering edge computing. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:34 AI development 06:25 AI's hidden environmental cost rises 11:27 How much carbon is IT responsible for? 14:07 Embodied carbon vs. Direct emissions 17:23 Project planning 25:07 Data collection 27:10 Side quest: Data collection ethics 29:05 Training 36:00 Deployment & maintenance 38:28 4 steps to make all computing greener 40:58 Resources 42:04 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3626 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Charles Humble • Kubernetes at the Edge • https://www.conissaunce.com/kubernetes-edge-ebook Charles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers • https://conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcut Charles Humble • The Developer's Guide to Cloud Infrastructure, Efficiency & Sustainability • https://conissaunce.com/sustainability-ebook Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software • https://amzn.to/3IKopW5 Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster • https://amzn.to/4iWtvPI Hannah Ritchie • Not the End of the World • https://amzn.to/4vdcZ2N https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #GreenAI #Sustainability #GreenSoftware #SustainableAI #SustainableSoftware #AI #ML #LLM #GreenLLM #CharlesHumble #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This Q&A session was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Joanna Bryson - Professor of Ethics and Technology, Responsible Data Science for Human Development @j2bryson RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/j2bryson.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson https://twitter.com/j2bryson https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryson https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com Links https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en DESCRIPTION Joanna Bryson challenges many popular assumptions about AI and AGI. She argues that current generative AI systems are not autonomous intelligences but powerful tools that compress and reproduce human cultural knowledge at scale. While these systems can appear intelligent, they remain dependent on human-created data, corporate incentives, and carefully engineered guardrails. Bryson cautions against anthropomorphizing AI and emphasizes that many concerns about AI stem from misunderstandings about how these systems actually work. The discussion ultimately centers on responsibility and governance. Bryson argues that transparency, accountability, and democratic oversight matter far more than debates about machine consciousness. Whether discussing AI companions, recommendation algorithms, open-source models, regulation, or AI-assisted software development, her conclusion remains consistent: technology is not destiny. Engineers, companies, policymakers, and citizens all have agency in shaping how AI is deployed, regulated, and integrated into society. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:20 Is AGI just copy-paste? 07:05 Mental health, chatbots & Twitter 21:48 AI, Law & Transparency 31:00 Big data in different industries 34:34 Regulating tech giants 40:23 Teaching critical thinking to the next generations 44:47 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3783 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Chris Miller • Chip War • https://amzn.to/4aBCUKT Henry Farrell & Abraham Newman • Underground Empire • https://amzn.to/3YdXdGX Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #AI #CorporateResponsibility #DemocraticLegitimacy #DesignRequirements #DigitalSuperintelligence #Transparency #Polarization #Inequality #Diversity #GDPR #SystemsEngineering #TodayInTech #JoannaBryson #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Nicolas Fränkel - Developer & Architect @NicolasFrankel RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/frankel.ch https://mastodon.top/@frankel https://twitter.com/nicolas_frankel https://github.com/nfrankel https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasfrankel https://blog.frankel.ch Links https://kubernetes.o https://webassembly.org https://youtu.be/yabE04SD5bQ https://wasmer.io/posts/python-on-the-edge-powered-by-webassembly https://www.fermyon.com/blog/how-to-think-about-wasm https://wasmedge.org/docs/develop/deploy/intro ABSTRACT WebAssembly started as a technology tailored to web browsers and is becoming popular as a server-side technology as well. The next step is for Wasm to become a powerful tool for cloud-native applications. When combined with Kubernetes, WebAssembly can revolutionize application deployment, security, and resource efficiency in ways traditional containers cannot. This talk explores why and how to leverage WebAssembly within Kubernetes environments to create scalable, high-performance, and secure applications. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:14 WebAssembly in 2018 05:00 WebAssembly in 2020 07:30 WebAssembly now 10:05 The many moving facets of WASM on k8s 11:00 The demo points today 14:20 Demo 24:07 Just enough k8s intrinsics 25:44 WASMedge 26:11 Demo 33:32 The good, the bad & the ugly 35:44 Summary 36:21 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3619 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Kevin Hoffman • Programming WebAssembly with Rust • https://amzn.to/48msEBz Valerio De Sanctis • Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core • https://amzn.to/42MWuOq Brian Sletten • WebAssembly: The Definitive Guide • https://amzn.to/3OQdHRf Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen • Practical WebAssembly • https://amzn.to/4bK3j7s https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #WebAssembly #WASM #Kubernetes #k8s #CloudNative #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #NicolasFrankel #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

Check out the full version on our YouTube channel now! #GOTOcon #SoftwareEngineering #SonicPi #LiveCodingMusic #CodingMusic #EducatingKids #SonicPiTutorial #SamAaron #SoundOfCode #CodeBasedMusic #SCSynth #SoftwareEngineering #Code #Technology #TeachingKidsToCode #TeachingKidsProgramming #TodayInTech #Programming #ViralProgrammingShorts #Viral #ViralShorts #TodayInTech #GOTO Sam Aaron - Live Coding Musician & Creator of Sonic Pi @SamAaron Full version available here: https://youtu.be/-L4OoOgQ5Wk Links https://www.patreon.com/samaaron https://sonic-pi.net RECOMMENDED BOOK Sam Aaron & Russell Barnes • Code Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/4hBRYtC Hans Gruendel • Making Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/3oVxGV7 Hans Gruendel • Learn to Program with Sonic PI • https://amzn.to/3qCrLEO Simon Monk • Raspberry Pi Cookbook • https://amzn.to/43AGPRX CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Patrick Kua - Founder of the Tech Lead Academy @thekua RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/patkua.bsky.social https://hachyderm.io/@patkua https://twitter.com/patkua https://www.linkedin.com/in/patkua https://github.com/thekua https://patkua.com ABSTRACT Do you want to have more impact in your work? Do you want to grow in your career? Do you want to know what "good" technical leadership looks like? Then come along to this talk where Pat Kua, who has been growing technical leaders for more than a decade, will share some practical advice on what it means to be a good technical leader, where to get started and how you can level up. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:23 Agenda 01:44 Exploring technical leadership 25:15 Reasons for you 32:12 How to get started 40:11 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3638 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Patrick Kua • Talking with Tech Leads • https://amzn.to/3ECO3xB Patrick Kua • The Retrospective Handbook • https://amzn.to/4jpxxQN Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons & Patrick Kua • Building Evolutionary Architectures • https://amzn.to/42qXJV2 Roger Fisher, William L. Ury & Bruce Patton • Getting to Yes • https://amzn.to/4iWdh8e Jon Gordon • The Power of Positive Leadership • https://amzn.to/3RTQLC0 Jean Greaves, Travis Bradberry & Patrick M. Lencioni • Emotional Intelligence 2.0 • https://amzn.to/3RWeSQy Michael Bungay Stanier • The Coaching Habit • https://amzn.to/3RQNzah Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen • Thanks for the Feedback • https://amzn.to/3GJwCfD Grenny, Patterson, McMillan, Switzler & Gregory • Crucial Conversations • https://amzn.to/44ZKjAZ https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #TechLeads #Teams #Culture #CompanyCulture #TeamCulture #Leadership #TechLeadership #TechnicalAlignment #PatrickKua #TodayInTech CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Sam Aaron - Live Coding Musician and Creator of Sonic Pi @SamAaron RESOURCES https://www.patreon.com/samaaron https://bsky.app/profile/samaaron.bsky.social https://twitter.com/samaaron https://github.com/samaaron https://linkedin.com/in/samaaron Links https://sonic-pi.net https://sonic-pi.net/supersonic/demo.html ABSTRACT For over a decade, Sonic Pi has been used in classrooms around the world to teach programming through music. Students learn sequencing, loops, data structures, and algorithms while coding beats, basslines, and shimmering synths. At the same time, professional musicians have taken Sonic Pi to stages and concert halls, using programming itself as an instrument of musical expression. Now the story continues with Tau5, a new live coding system focused on collaboration. In music, concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance aren’t just safety nets - they are uncompromising demands. When harnessed, they can be transformed into powerful creative possibilities for human expression and connection. Collaboration isn’t limited to humans. Tau5 also experiments with AI as a creative partner, asking not what machines can replace, but how they might improvise with us. This keynote reflects on the lessons these explorations in music and code can teach us about collaboration, creativity, and education in the age of AI. Along the way, we’ll explore concurrency, rhythm, and the subtle but critical difference between working at the same time and working truly in time. Don't just pattern match - rhythm catch! [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:12 DJ set with Sam Aaron feat. Sonic Pi 09:29 Intro No. 2 13:18 Teaching kids to code 18:27 Sonic Pi demo 41:14 The Black Dog 44:11 Tau5 & Visuals 58:26 Collaborative jamming with SuperSonic 01:00:42 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3907 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Sam Aaron & Russell Barnes • Code Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/4hBRYtC Hans Gruendel • Making Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/3oVxGV7 Hans Gruendel • Learn to Program with Sonic PI • https://amzn.to/3qCrLEO Simon Monk • Raspberry Pi Cookbook • https://amzn.to/43AGPRX https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SonicPi #LiveCodingMusic #CodingMusic #EducatingKids #SonicPiTutorial #SamAaron #SoundOfCode #CodeBasedMusic #SCSynth #Ruby #Erlang #Cpp #TodayInTech #Tau5 #Hydra #Erlang #Elixir #BEAM #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

Check out the full version on our YouTube channel now! #GOTOcon #PlatformEngineering #PlatformTeam #PlatformAsAService #DevOps #Programming ##AjayChankramath #KasparVonGrünberg #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #ViralProgrammingShorts #Viral #ViralShorts #TodayInTech #GOTOcon Ajay Chankramath - Founder & CEO at Platformetrics & Co-Author of "The Platform Engineer’s Handbook" @achankramath452 Kaspar von Grünberg - Founder & CEO at Stealth & Author of "Thinking in Platforms" Full version available here: https://youtu.be/0yxCKAMK3nk RECOMMENDED BOOKS Ajay Chankramath • The Platform Engineer's Handbook • https://amzn.to/4eCSibM Kaspar von Grünberg & Luca Galante • Thinking in Plat­forms • https://weaveintelligence.io/thinking-in-platforms-book CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Sara Bergman - Co-Author of "Building Green Software" & Software Engineer at Microsoft @sarabergman1396 RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/saraemilybergman.bsky.social http://twitter.com/SaraEbergman https://github.com/SaraEmilyBergman https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-bergman1 Links https://ourworldindata.org/energy https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix https://blog.cloudflare.com/designing-edge-servers-with-arm-cpus https://amperecomputing.com/assets/amadeus_case_study_8794122fe5.pdf https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cobalt-100-based-virtual-machines-are-now-generally-available https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-googles-new-arm-based-cpu https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-9 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-9/#arm64 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/sdk/6.0/path-x64-emulated https://github.com/danielmarbach/beyondsimplebenchmarks https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/04/14/github-actions-now-supports-windows-on-arm-runners-for-all-public-repos https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/arm64-on-github-actions-powering-faster-more-efficient-build-systems ABSTRACT As the tech industry faces increasing pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, software engineers are well positioned to drive change—not just through efficient code, but by making smarter architectural choices. This talk is a practical guide for engineers looking to port .NET services across architectures, particularly toward ARM-based platforms, to unlock energy efficiency and performance gains. We’ll walk through the real-world journey of moving services from traditional x86 and x64 to ARM, highlighting the common roadblocks and how to overcome them. This session is not just about theory—it’s a how-to for engineers who want to make their services greener without sacrificing quality or velocity. Whether you're working on microservices, APIs, or backend systems, you’ll leave a notion of what to watch out for and a clear understanding of the potential wins—both for your service and the planet. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:28 What makes software green? 06:00 Energy efficiency 08:09 CPU: RISC vs. CISC 11:36 Why should you change? 13:49 The green wins 17:46 Hardware efficiency 24:49 The migration journey 42:01 Takeaways 42:27 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3745 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software • https://amzn.to/3IKopW5 Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software • https://www.kolaxis.dev/book-green-software Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster • https://amzn.to/4iWtvPI Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability • https://amzn.to/2YXbI7j Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability • https://amzn.to/3APBW8r Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization • https://amzn.to/3pkRVsS Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability • https://amzn.to/2YXfPQM Carola Lilienthal • Sustainable Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3yFXxoS https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #dotNET #GreenShift #SoftwareArchitecture #x86 #x64 #ARM #Microservices #BuildingGreenSoftware #Sustainability #SustainableSoftware #CarbonEfficiency #GreenSoftwareFoundation #Decarbonization #GreenCloud #GreenComputing #Programming #GreenSoftware #SaraBergman #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Paul Roe - Dean Research at James Cook University @jamescookuniversity RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-roe-24724913 https://portfolio.jcu.edu.au/Researchers/paul.roe Links https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/conservation/publications/australias-strategy-for-nature https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals https://acousticobservatory.org https://xeno-canto.org https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03071 ABSTRACT Ecoacoustics is transforming how we explore and understand our natural world by capturing the rich soundscape of our environment, from the songs of birds and the calls of frogs to the deep bellows of koalas. We’ve built the Australian Acoustic Observatory, a continent-wide network of hundreds of autonomous sound recorders, collecting the equivalent of over a thousand years of continuous audio. In this talk, I’ll share our journey of listening to nature at scale — and how we’re harnessing the power of cloud computing and artificial intelligence to reveal the health of Australia’s ecosystems. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:44 Agenda 02:02 1. Ecoacoustics 11:24 2. My ecoacoustics odyssey 27:24 3. What did I learn? 39:32 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3833 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Karen Bakke • The Sounds of Life • https://amzn.to/4vOGGIL Grainne Cleary • Why Do Birds Sing? • https://amzn.to/4vbfT8p Christopher Nolan • The Odyssey • https://amzn.to/4oTFiBY Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley & Kristin Tolle • The Fourth Paradigm • https://amzn.to/4vI9vGS Sam Aaron & Russell Barnes • Code Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/4hBRYtC Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Ecoacoustics #Environment #Soundscape #AustralianAcousticObservatory #NatureSounds #AI #TodayInTech #PaulRoe #JamesCookUniversity #JCU #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

Check out the full version on our YouTube channel now! #GOTOcon #YOWcon #SustainableDevelopment #SoftwareDesign #XP #TDD #JUnit #EmpiricalDesign #ExtremeProgramming #Explore #Expand #Extract #3X #GenAI #Programming #KentBeck #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #ViralProgrammingShorts #Viral #ViralShorts #TodayInTech #GOTOcon Kent Beck - Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming @KentLBeck Full version available here: https://youtu.be/sMujMp4h_EY RECOMMENDED BOOKS Kent Beck • Tidy First? • https://amzn.to/4gscjjK Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3sBASDG Kent Beck • Test Driven Development • https://amzn.to/3U4AXLs Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN Kent Beck • Implementation Patterns • https://amzn.to/3sBlCGL CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/451 Ajay Chankramath - Founder & CEO at Platformetrics & Co-Author of "The Platform Engineer’s Handbook" @achankramath452 Kaspar von Grünberg - Founder & CEO at Stealth & Author of "Thinking in Platforms" RESOURCES Ajay https://www.linkedin.com/in/chankramath https://github.com/achankra https://x.com/ajchantw https://chankramath.com https://platformetrics.com Kaspar https://www.linkedin.com/in/kvgruenberg https://github.com/Kasparvongruenberg https://kasparvongruenberg.com Links https://peh-packt.platformetrics.com https://youtu.be/BPCcxYHLzkI https://youtu.be/ajX56E4G5qk https://youtu.be/gLMe85XyXhI DESCRIPTION Ajay Chankramath — author of The Platform Engineer’s Handbook — joins Kaspar von Grünberg to unpack why he wrote a 14-chapter, code-first practitioner's guide instead of another theory-heavy platform book. The conversation's core thesis: the reason developers don't adopt platforms isn't a technology gap, it's a product discipline gap — a failure to treat developer experience as a first-class outcome with a real feedback loop. Ajay walks through the book's arc, from Kubernetes and service-mesh foundations through self-service portals to enterprise-grade concerns like policy-as-code and FinOps, and makes a pointed case for building on 100% open-source, vendor-agnostic tooling as a hedge against geopolitical and licensing whiplash. The most relevant thread for engineers building with AI today: citing a McKinsey finding that only 6% of AI initiatives show real productivity gains, Ajay argues that agentic AI doesn't reduce the need for platform engineering — it raises the stakes. As coding agents become genuine actors in the SDLC rather than tools, IDPs need a new layer for agent context, memory, tool registries, and guardrails, and that layer "must be built, owned, and operated by you," not bought off the shelf. His conclusion: the differentiator in the AI era isn't which frontier model you use — it's whether your platform foundations are solid enough to make agents safe and productive at all. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:35 Why this book exists 04:17 From chip design to Platform Engineering 07:12 Platform as a product, not a tool 09:37 Inside the book: From foundations to enterprise-grade 15:17 Built for any industry — Almost 19:05 Sovereignty & going 100% vendor-agnostic 23:27 What happens when agents enter the SDLC 28:00 How to write a practical Platform Engineering book 31:07 Outro RECOMMENDED BOOKS Ajay Chankramath • The Platform Engineer's Handbook • https://amzn.to/4eCSibM Ajay Chankramath & Eamonn Ryan • Domain-Driven Platform Engineering • https://amzn.to/3TdiC3J Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver & Alvarez • Effective Platform Engineering • https://amzn.to/3OnxN8i Kaspar von Grünberg & Luca Galante • Thinking in Plat­forms • https://weaveintelligence.io/thinking-in-platforms-book Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #PlatformEngineering #PlatformTeam #PlatformAsAService #DevOps #ControlPlanes #APIfirst #Backstage #SpotifyBackstage #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #Programming #AjayChankramath #KasparVonGrünberg #GOTO #BookClub CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Trisha Gee - Head of Developer Advocacy at Gradle, Java Champion & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA" @TrishaGee RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/trishagee.bsky.social https://twitter.com/trisha_gee https://github.com/trishagee https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishagee https://trishagee.com Links https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai https://organizationalphysics.com/2023/03/31/what-is-psiu-chatgpt https://research.facebook.com/publications/predictive-test-selection https://landing.gravitee.io/gravitee-edge-stack-unified-api-visibility-and-governance https://youtu.be/guycIP56YeY https://youtu.be/vHBzZHE4tJ0 ABSTRACT How a Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) approach can speed up writing, running and debugging tests. Testing is a Good Thing, right? Especially automated testing. But "Good things come to those who wait" is not something that's going to appeal to the busy developer. You want results, and you want them now. You're in The Zone working on a problem, and the last thing you want is to break your flow wrestling with your testing framework or waiting for the tests to finish running. More code means more tests. More coverage means more tests. More tests mean more time. Time that you want to spend being productive, creative, innovative. How can you balance the need for quality with the need for speed? In this talk, Trisha will identify issues that slow down developers when writing, running and debugging tests, and look at tools that can help developers with each of these problems. There will be live coding, analysis of social media poll results, an overview of solutions in this space, "best practice" recommendations, and machine learning will be mentioned at some point. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:46 Agenda 02:55 1. Writing tests takes time 03:14 Demo 10:08 1. Writing tests takes time continued 14:58 2. Troubleshooting takes time 28:42 3. Running tests takes time 38:40 Write better tests 40:45 Summary 42:42 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3654 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Trisha Gee & Helen Scott • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA • https://amzn.to/3ZBgnGc Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ Trisha Gee, Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates • Head First Java • https://amzn.to/3k59BJ6 https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Tests #Testing #SoftwareTests #DeveloperProductivityEngineering #DPE #DeveloperProductivity #TDD #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #TrishaGee #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Kent Beck - Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming @KentLBeck RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/kentbeck.bsky.social https://www.kentbeck.com https://github.com/KentBeck https://twitter.com/KentBeck https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbeck https://tidyfirst.substack.com/about ABSTRACT Genies are great at cranking out features. Unfortunately they don’t clean the kitchen as they cook. Progress slows then stops as yesterday’s expedient decision becomes today’s roadblock. What would it take to get the trajectory in red instead of the one in blue? • Development in small steps validated by automated tests • Periodic pauses in feature development to improve structure and thus increase optionality • Potentially a new approach to augmented coding manipulating the tree structure of the code, not just the tokens Sound familiar? [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 06:26 Cello-Story 08:10 Programming in uncertain times 13:03 3X: Explore Expand Extract 27:20 Feature drag 43:52 Junior developer: Profit over time 49:25 Closing thoughts 58:26 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3896 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Kent Beck • Tidy First? • https://amzn.to/4gscjjK Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3sBASDG Kent Beck • Test Driven Development • https://amzn.to/3U4AXLs Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN Kent Beck • Implementation Patterns • https://amzn.to/3sBlCGL https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SustainableDevelopment #SoftwareDesign #XP #TDD #JUnit #EmpiricalDesign #ExtremeProgramming #Explore #Expand #Extract #3X #Ergodicity #Coupling #ConstantinesEquation #TodayInTech #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #KentBeck CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Gregor Hohpe - Author of "Platform Strategy", "The Software Architect Elevator", et al. RESOURCES https://twitter.com/ghohpe https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghohpe http://eaipatterns.com https://architectelevator.com Links https://twitter.com/ghohpe/status/1513362076990803969 https://github.com/97-things/97-things-every-programmer-should-know https://youtu.be/Zrj7RD7G24Q https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6513 ABSTRACT Let’s be honest, the tech we use today is amazing, but it can also be complex. It’s only natural that teams want to build platforms that hide this complexity to improve productivity, avoid mistakes, and reduce cognitive load. But they may be misled to believe that the more complexity they hide, the better their platform is. Instead, they end up creating dangerous illusions! This talk reflects on two decades of building complex distributed systems, highlighting where abstractions helped and where illusions led to major disappointments. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:03 We shifted everything so far left, it piled up 04:12 Economies of scale & speed 14:23 Platform # IT service 16:0 Overcoming constraints 22:52 Standing on shoulders of giants 27:48 Abstractions vs. Composition 45:52 Outro 30:53 Build abstractions, not illusions! Read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3672 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2ax Gregor Hohpe • Cloud Strategy • https://amzn.to/3TOS3Nv Gregor Hohpe • Enterprise Integration Patterns, Vol 2 • https://amzn.to/3TNedQ3 Gregor Hohpe & Bobby Woolf • Enterprise Integration Patterns • https://amzn.to/3DqII9l Gregor Hohpe • 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation • https://amzn.to/3z8uhnw Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SoftwareArchitecture #PlatformEngineering #PlatformAsAProduct #ComplexDistributedSystems #DistributedSystems #PlatformAbstraction #ControlFlow #Abstraction #GregorHohpe #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

Check out the full version on our YouTube channel now! #GOTOcon #AgileDevelopment #Value #Velocity #Agile #SystemsThinking #Signal #Levers #Programming #ElisabethHendrickson #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #ViralProgrammingShorts #Viral #ViralShorts #TodayInTech #GOTOcon Elisabeth Hendrickson - Advisor, Coach, Speaker & Co-Author of "Signals & Levers" @curiousduckdev Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant Full version available here: https://youtu.be/8tNtZMm3Hyc RECOMMENDED BOOK Elisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi • Signals & Levers • https://amzn.to/4g6Fb3C CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates @daniel-terhorst-north RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod https://github.com/tastapod https://mastodon.social/@tastapod http://dannorth.net/blog https://goalwards.co Links https://xkcd.com/974 https://adventofcode.com ABSTRACT Software teams often face a false choice: move fast and accumulate technical debt, or build the perfect system and miss the deadline. But there may be a third path, the Best Simple System for Now (BSSN). This session introduces a pragmatic yet principled approach to software design: systems that are as simple as possible but no simpler. You’ll learn how to design code that is robust, change-friendly, and fit for purpose, while avoiding both gold-plating and corner-cutting. Through practical examples, we explore how to manage complexity, embrace uncertainty, and make sound decisions using concepts like Cost of Delay and RAROC. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 03:44 Agenda 05:05 Defining the best simple system for now 26:17 Do not try this at home 34:41 Why no one else is doing this 40:09 And then what? 43:00 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3737 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow • https://amzn.to/3hJ2Ye2 Eliyahu M. Goldratt • Beyond the Goal • https://amzn.to/3wDbAL1 Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3KeL5P5 Jez Humble & Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd Robert B Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded • https://amzn.to/3tL8GxB Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospective Antipatterns • https://amzn.to/3naFk84 Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • https://amzn.to/2XjbWor https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #Polyglot #Patterns #AntiPaterns #BuildTheRightProduct #GoodProgrammers #Change #CUPID #VESPA #Team #TechTeam #TodayInTech #DanNorth #DanielTerhorstNorth #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Ken Pfeuffer - The Mastermind Behind Apple's Gaze-and-Pinch Technology @kenpfeuffer3002 RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/kenpfeuffer.bsky.social https://twitter.com/KenPfeuffer https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-pfeuffer-404377129 https://medium.com/@ken.pfeuffer https://kenpfeuffer.com Links https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3131277.3132180 https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/gestures#visionOS https://youtu.be/RVMf_SP7iTc https://cs.au.dk/news-events/ken-pfeuffers-research-comes-to-life-in-apples-vision-pro-headset ABSTRACT The user interface—what connects you, me, and the digital world—has evolved remarkably from 2D GUIs with keyboards and mice to multi-touch, wearables, and now spatial computing (AR/VR/XR), reaching billions of people worldwide. Major shifts in interface paradigms are rare and often occur only once in decades, yet we may be on the cusp of one that could fundamentally transform everything we do with our hands on computers. In this talk, I will trace this evolution and introduce Eye-Hand Symbiosis—my decade-long vision and research project exploring the fusion of eyes and hands for interaction. It is showing first signs of becoming reality, and I will share where this path might lead in the years ahead. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 03:21 AR/VR today 08:50 Agenda 09:10 How did we get here? 20:22 Where does eye input come from? 38:01 What's ahead? 42:49 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3666 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Drew Reeves • X/UI Graphic Design For Beginners Made Simple • https://amzn.to/49t6Tmf Jenifer Tidwell, Charles Brewer & Aynne Valencia • Designing Interfaces • https://amzn.to/3L5HHKB LaViola Jr., Kruijff, Bowman, McMahan & Poupyrev • 3D User Interfaces • https://amzn.to/4aQVn6E https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #UserInterface #UserExperience #GazePinch #UX #UI #DevEx #AR #VR #XR #AppleVisionPro #VisionOS #GazeComputerControl #EyeHandSymbiosis #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #KenPfeuffer #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture" @AndrewHarmelLaw ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.social https://twit.social/@ahl https://x.com/al94781 https://github.com/andrewharmellaw https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellaw https://andrewharmellaw.github.io Links https://facilitatingsoftwarearchitecture.com https://martinfowler.com/articles/scaling-architecture-conversationally.html ABSTRACT In this talk, Andrew explores key concepts from his book, fostering decentralized sociotechnical systems, emphasizing the importance of embracing imperfection in decision-making, and combating cognitive biases like the framing effect. He will highlight the shift to prioritizing learning, adaptability, and small, fast iterations in socio-technical systems. Andrew will also discuss psychological safety as vital for empowering teams to innovate while maintaining accountability, advocating for experimentation and collective ownership of evolving codebases. He will underline the importance of balancing creativity and structure to build resilient, adaptive systems that thrive in complexity. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 05:02 Short version:Thinking like a software architect 15:56 Long version 18:24 Lightweight ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) 29:22 Architectural advice forum 36:19 How to fail 40:30 Summary 41:35 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3886 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfU Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2ax Barry O'Reilly • Residues • https://leanpub.com/residuality Barry O'Reilly • The Architect's Paradox • https://leanpub.com/architectsparadox https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SoftwareArchitecture #ArchitectureTeam #ADR #ArchitectureDecisionRecord #Microservices #ContinuousDelivery #PlatformEngineering #ArchitectsParadox #EmpoweringTeams #FacilitatingSoftware #TodayInTech #AndrewHarmelLaw #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in April 2026. https://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/450 Abby Bangser - Principal Engineer at Syntasso & Team Topologies Advocate @SyntassoAbby Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant RESOURCES Abby https://bsky.app/profile/abangser.bsky.social https://twitter.com/a_bangser https://github.com/abangser https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser https://www.syntasso.io/members-area/abby/profile Charles https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble https://conissaunce.com Links https://blog.container-solutions.com/paula-kennedy-on-platform-team-responsibilities-patterns-and-anti-patterns http://sites.libsyn.com/406853/syntasso-coo-paula-kennedy-on-platform-team-responsibilities-patterns-and-anti-patterns https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/platform-as-a/0642572243777 https://github.com/Cloud-Native-Platform-Engineering/cnpe-community/issues/79 https://www.kratix.io https://leaddev.com/ai/nobody-knows-what-programming-will-look-like-in-two-years https://leaddev.com/ai/shipping-faster-thinking-less-the-ai-code-verification-trap https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/20/announcing-the-platform-engineering-maturity-model https://platformengineering.com/features/portals-and-pipelines-arent-enough-avoiding-the-platform-facade https://youtu.be/D8AxI-0L3oc https://youtu.be/IW-cPuydd5s https://youtu.be/-5kK50d-duc https://youtu.be/tWw7Eocjl-c https://youtu.be/DgsIDqkvLME https://youtu.be/gWPPnuQB4co https://youtu.be/nUoEN8zsJr0 https://youtu.be/EGSMP2UodKM https://youtu.be/SrA543HT3bA https://youtu.be/siEtKc6Sq2Y https://youtu.be/hIwVqt6qtc4 https://youtu.be/70hmVqBO1gI https://youtu.be/VhloarnpxVo https://youtu.be/0vkY2H2QDC8 https://youtu.be/-QF-MLCo_pA https://youtu.be/zOP_Dtwo1gs https://youtu.be/hBxV3Cr0lXY https://youtu.be/Th4MFWJmlsc DESCRIPTION Abby Bangser opens with a clear-eyed status report on platform engineering: the concept of centralizing shared capabilities with self-service delivery is well understood, but the execution keeps going wrong in the same way. Organizations move from DevOps to platform engineering, but their platform teams end up becoming the new bottleneck — a centralized group drowning under the weight of the entire organization's requests, which is exactly what DevOps was supposed to fix. Abby traces this to an architectural problem: too many platforms are still built as centralized Terraform machines rather than as a marketplace of composable offerings. Her "platform as a product" test is blunt and useful: has the team ever said "no" to a feature request, or deprecated something? If not, they don't have a product — they have a request queue. The AI dimension is where the conversation gets most urgent. Abby's position is direct: AI agents are the new forcing function for platform maturity. The biggest misconception she wants to dismantle is the persistent equation of platform engineering with infrastructure-as-code: renaming your Terraform team doesn't count. Platform engineering is about building an experience — for human developers and increasingly for AI agents — that is self-service, compliant, and coherent at organizational scale. The Team Topologies model of interaction modes (from high-collaboration to fully automated on-demand APIs) gives a useful health check for where a platform actually sits on that maturity curve. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:53 Where does Platform Engineering stand today? 04:14 What does a mature Platform Team look like? 06:48 Platform façades & platform decay 16:42 How do AI agents change the Platform equation? 26:17 Meaning of capabilities & marketplace 41:32 Biggest misconception 44:18 What does Platform Engineering look like in 2–3 years? 45:53 Outro RECOMMENDED BOOKS Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver & Alvarez • Effective Platform Engineering • https://amzn.to/3OnxN8i Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #PlatformEngineering #PlatformAsAProduct #PlatformTeams #PlatformStrategy #DevEx #DeveloperExperience #FeedbackLoops #Terraform #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #TodaInTech #AbbyBangser #CharlesHumble CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

Check out the full version on our YouTube channel now! #GOTOcon #SovereignCloud #Infrastructure #ControlPlane #Cycle #EuropeanControlPlane #SovereignCloudOperations #PostKubernetes #Kubernetes #JakeWarner #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #ViralProgrammingShorts #Viral #ViralShorts #TodayInTech #GOTOcon Jake Warner - Co-Founder & CEO at Cycle @JakeWarner Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant Full version available here: https://youtu.be/ajX56E4G5qk RECOMMENDED BOOKS Alan Hamilton • Sovereign Cloud Operations • https://amzn.to/4dqYAe4 Leonard J. Horta • The Cloud Exit Strategy • https://amzn.to/4dXqeiN CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/449 Simon Brown - Author & Creator of "The C4 Model" @simonbrown4821 Susanne Kaiser - Independent Tech Consultant & Author of "Architecture for Flow" @architectureforflow RESOURCES Simon https://simonbrown.je https://bsky.app/profile/simonbrown.je https://twitter.com/simonbrown https://linkedin.com/in/simonbrownjersey https://c4model.com Susanne https://bsky.app/profile/suksr.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@suksr https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannekaiser1 https://susannekaiser.net Links https://structurizr.com https://youtu.be/3Gc5pN9sGzw https://youtu.be/5OjqD-ow8GE https://youtu.be/NwtE82Wzs_U https://youtu.be/b8WI1QYP0Zk https://youtu.be/Za1-v4Zkq5E https://youtu.be/FqTL-_tLf6I DESCRIPTION Simon Brown explains that the C4 Model started not as a grand design theory, but as a practical answer to an embarrassing problem: running a workshop on architecture diagramming, he realized he couldn't understand any of the diagrams being produced. The model formalized his own consulting practice of hierarchical handover documentation — context diagram at the top, containers below, components and code at the bottom — giving it a name and making it teachable. His core advice is to start with just the top two levels: context and container diagrams. These change infrequently, are quick to draw, and deliver immediate value. Levels three and four — components and code — are included for completeness but age rapidly with every commit, and in most cases aren't worth the maintenance overhead. Two especially practical insights emerge from the conversation. First, how to handle microservices: if your team owns all the services inside a system boundary, each service is a collection of C4 containers; if you depend on another team's service that you can't see inside, model it as an opaque software system. This maps naturally to how domain boundaries and team ownership actually work in practice. Second, the surprisingly important distinction between modeling and diagramming: C4's real value is the shared vocabulary — systems, containers, components, code — not the visual notation itself. Teams using entirely different tooling can communicate clearly because they've agreed on what the words mean. Simon is firm that there will be no C4 v2; the model is intentionally lightweight, and adding more would risk turning it into the next UML — comprehensive, heavy, and largely abandoned. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:57 What problem Does the C4 Model solve? 02:04 The origin story: From workshop chaos to C4 Model 04:34 The 4 levels — And why you probably only need 2 07:03 Containers 07:44 Should architecture diagrams show technology? 09:51 How to get started with the C4 Model 19:23 How to model microservices in C4 21:55 Where does C4 not work? 24:07 What's the 1 thing to take away from the book? 26:15 Outro RECOMMENDED BOOKS Simon Brown • The C4 Model • https://amzn.to/4xB9V33 Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCc Nick Rozanski &, Eóin Woods • Software Systems Architecture • https://amzn.to/4cOLtTv van Kelle, Verschatse &Baas-Schwegler • Collaborative Software Design • https://amzn.to/4iv0N8I https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SoftwareArchitecture #C4Model #Sturcturizr #Monolith #ModularMonolith #Microservices #UML #DDD #MessageDrivenArchitectures #Abstractions #Microfrontends #SimonBrown #SusanneKaiser #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #TodayInTech #BookClub CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Alberto Brandolini - Creator of EventStorming @AlbertoBrandolini RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/ziobrando.bsky.social https://twitter.com/ziobrando https://github.com/ziobrando https://www.linkedin.com/in/brando http://www.avanscoperta.it/en/trainer/a-brandolini Links https://blog.avanscoperta.it https://www.avanscoperta.it/en/context-mapping https://blog.avanscoperta.it/2020/04/21/context-mapping-on-a-business-grid ABSTRACT Without a constant design effort, models will tend to rot, irresistibly attracted to the Big Ball of Mud. Partitioning the model early on could be the solution, but many forces are conspiring in the wrong direction. • How can we establish solid foundations for our software to avoid becoming bloated and unmanageable? • How can we detect the signals we need to split a model? How and where should we split? In this talk, we’ll see how practices for model decomposition need to consider the whole socio-technical stack, including architecture, domain, organization, teams and human brain, and how different strategies will fit in at different moments of our software evolution. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:44 Part 1: Good old times 06:10 Summary: Good old times 07:14 Starting with the right foot 08:11 Bounded context 11:04 Discipline isn't free 26:16 Running faster 28:44 When to split? 34:39 Detecting where to start 37:51 Multi-country 44:03 Poking the landscape 45:02 Summary 47:37 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3866 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Alberto Brandolini & various Authors • Cronache di Domain-Driven Design (Italian Edition) • https://amzn.to/4aDGlAK Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwm Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow • https://amzn.to/2XmJEtf Charles Duhigg • The Power of Habit • https://amzn.to/4ayeHEy Andy Hunt • Pragmatic Thinking & Learning • https://amzn.to/4xBioDu Carola Lilienthal & Henning Schwentner • Domain-Driven Transformation • https://amzn.to/48CCxNR Nick Tune & Jean-Georges Perrin • Architecture Modernization • https://amzn.to/4rAIeEJ https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SoftwareDesign #EventStorming #EventStreaming #DDD #BoundedContext #SoftwareDelivery #TodayInTech #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #AlbertoBrandolini CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Scott Shaw - Crew Lead, GenAI Platform at Commonwealth Bank ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Mission-Critical Generative AI in Action: Delivering Safety, Reliability, and Customer Value RESOURCES https://github.com/scottwshaw https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-shaw-b4003a4 Links https://www.cio.com/article/3850763/88-of-ai-pilots-fail-to-reach-production-but-thats-not-all-on-it.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ninety-percent-of-ceos-are-waiting-for-genai-to-move-past-the-hype-or-experimenting-in-small-ways-302033314.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/08/26/mit-finds-95-of-genai-pilots-fail-because-companies-avoid-friction https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirements ABSTRACT In the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI, financial services organisations face unique challenges when implementing these technologies at enterprise scale within Australia's regulated environment. This presentation explores deploying mission-critical generative AI applications that balance safety and regulatory requirements with tangible customer value, addressing the practical realities of resilience, cost efficiency, model selection optimisation, and ensuring high availability in resource-constrained environments. Drawing from real-world experiences, we'll tackle the often-overlooked challenge of resource scarcity while examining effective approaches to navigating complex organisational dynamics, managing stakeholder expectations, and cutting through the hype surrounding generative AI. Throughout, our focus remains on the ultimate goal: creating superior customer experiences in financial services where trust, service excellence, and operational stability must coexist. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 05:01 GenAI goldrush 06:30 Platform problem space 11:16 Platform 18:53 Engineering under new constraints 26:22 Evolving engineering practice 33:00 What this means for organisations 36:00 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3901 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Jay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering • https://pragprog.com/titles/jwpaieng Kurt Dowswell • Programming with GitHub Copilot • https://amzn.to/3TM2HaL https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIChallenges #LLM #ScottShaw CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Adrian Mouat - Developer Relations at Chainguard & Author of "Using Docker" @AdrianMouat Kief Morris - Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks & Author of "Infrastructure as Code" @KiefMorris Sam Newman - Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices" @SamNewmanWork ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Cloud, Containers, Security & AI - What’s Now, What’s Next? RESOURCES Adrian https://bsky.app/profile/adrianmouat.com https://twitter.com/adrianmouat https://github.com/amouat https://linkedin.com/in/adrianmouat http://www.adrianmouat.com Kief https://bsky.app/profile/kief.com https://twitter.com/kief https://github.com/kief https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiefmorris https://infrastructure-as-code.com https://kief.com Sam https://twitter.com/samnewman https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewman http://samnewman.io http://samnewman.io/blog https://github.com/snewman ABSTRACT In this session, Sam Newman will interview Kief Morris and Adrian Mouat, both experts in their field. We will explore the current reality of security in the container world, how infrastructure automation is impacted by AI, and whether platform teams are actually working. We’ll also be taking lots of questions from the audience! [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 03:11 Cloud lessons learned 09:06 Containers: Mature or still evolving? 17:17 Security in a cloud native world 27:10 Infrastructure as code today & audience Q&A 44:20 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3938 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Adrian Mouat • Using Docker • https://amzn.to/3PEYIJL Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc Sam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-resilient-distributed/9781098163532 Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Cloud #Containers #Security #AI #DevEx #SoftwareDesign #SoftwareArchitecture #InfrastructureAsCode #CloudNative #Kubernetes #k8s #Chainguard #Cybersecurity #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #AdrianMouat #KiefMorris #SamNewman #TodayInTech CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

Check out the full version on our YouTube channel now! #GOTOcon #AgileDevelopment #Agile #SystemsThinking #Signal #Levers #Programming #ElisabethHendrickson #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #ViralProgrammingShorts #Viral #ViralShorts #TodayInTech #GOTOcon Elisabeth Hendrickson - Advisor, Coach, Speaker & Co-Author of "Signals & Levers" @curiousduckdev Full version available here: https://youtu.be/8tNtZMm3Hyc RECOMMENDED BOOK Elisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi • Signals & Levers • https://amzn.to/4g6Fb3C CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Elisabeth Hendrickson - Advisor, Coach, Speaker & Co-Author of "Signals & Levers" @curiousduckdev Joel Tosi - Co-Founder & CTO at Dojo & Co & Co-Author of "Signals & Levers" Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/448 RESOURCES Elisabeth https://ruby.social/@testobsessed https://github.com/testobsessed https://www.linkedin.com/in/testobsessed https://curiousduck.io Joel https://mastodon.social/@joeltosi https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-tosi-531a3b Charles https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble https://conissaunce.com Links https://ruthmalan.com http://www.ask-force.org/web/Discourse/Rittel-Dilemmas-General-Theory-Planning-1973.pdf https://youtu.be/9w6YeNNJLkg https://youtu.be/m7cWdYVAzX0 https://youtu.be/WazqgfsO_kY https://youtu.be/lpNzR0fvxDw https://youtu.be/OkVjqwkveiY https://youtu.be/j2AQ9eTZ3-0 https://youtu.be/BvJ0XLyCQsw https://youtu.be/RNdspOqbBEk https://youtu.be/qjJ6LvOU7q0 https://youtu.be/p-R7Doigqzc DESCRIPTION Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi open by explaining why systems thinking is having a moment right now: organizations that went all-in on Agile and DevOps are finding those returns plateauing, and the rise of AI is forcing engineering teams to reexamine where their real bottlenecks are. The book, Signals & Levers, gives software engineers a practical vocabulary and toolkit for that examination. A core insight is that most organizational dysfunction isn't caused by bad people or bad intentions, but by systems that produce bad outcomes predictably and structurally. The named archetypes in the book — over 20 of them, covering patterns like escalating technical debt, the "fixes that fail" loop, and the boiling frog — give teams a shared language to recognize and reason about those patterns without having to discover them from scratch. The most practically actionable section of the conversation covers signals versus levers: understanding the difference between information (a signal) and an intervention point (a lever) is the foundation for making changes that actually work rather than changes that feel productive and achieve nothing. On AI, both authors are cautious in the right ways: Elisabeth uses it daily as a thinking partner but keeps herself firmly at the steering wheel. Joel's warning is starker — AI amplifies whatever is already true about your organization, including dysfunction, and if it lets you ship faster than you can learn, the consequences may be severe. The book closes with an exercise for the reader: if AI doubles your delivery speed, what happens when you can ship faster than you can adapt? TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:29 Why is Systems Thinking having a moment? 07:02 Once you see the system, you can't unsee it 13:40 The importance of storytelling 17:14 Agile, Lean, XP... Why are we still missing deadlines? 21:58 Illusions of progress, predictability & control 26:16 Signals vs. Levers: The core distinction 30:11 Why does fixing the wrong thing feel like progress? 36:27 How do leaders separate signal from noise? 40:21 What is causal modeling? 46:16 Culture vs. Policy 55:43 AI as thinking partner & amplifier of dysfunction 59:36 Resources 01:01:50 Outro RECOMMENDED BOOKS Elisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi • Signals & Levers • https://amzn.to/4g6Fb3C Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJ Don Norman • The Design of Everyday Things • https://amzn.to/4fV6QVl Gene Kim • The Unicorn Project • https://amzn.to/3woXQDz Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford • The Phoenix Project • https://amzn.to/3X9cYxa Peter Degrace & Leslie Hulet Stahl • Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions • https://amzn.to/3ScP0D9 Frederick Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month • https://amzn.to/4gd10OV Gerald Weinberg • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/4dZCsaO Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems • https://amzn.to/3XtqYCV https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SystemsThinking #Signal #Levers #CompanyCulture #CompanyPolicy #Programming #TodayInTech #ElisabethHendrickson #JoelTosi #CharlesHumble #BookClub CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Alexander Chatzizacharias - Software Engineer at JDriven RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/glycin.bsky.social https://twitter.com/glyc1n https://github.com/glycin https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-chatzizacharias ABSTRACT Vector databases have emerged as an exciting new tech in the world of data storage. Unsurprisingly enough, they have become the go-to choice for storing vectors (who would have thought?!) and are widely used in conjunction with generative AI. Apart from their use in AI applications, they can also be extremely handy as search engines, especially if you are looking to implement natural language interfaces. If you're reading this and eager to harness the power of vector databases to bring your application to the next level, then this talk is tailor-made for you! Whether you're an experienced database professional or an adventurous developer seeking fresh perspectives, Alexander will guide you through the process of getting started with a Vector Database. He will demonstrate how to translate your data into vectors and master the art of querying that data. From text search to image search to generative search, Alexander's goal is to provide an engaging introduction to Vector Databases and, hopefully, inspire you to explore their full potential. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:28 Goal of this talk 02:54 Vectors 05:47 Machine learning 09:05 Vector databases 14:53 Demo 16:45 Vector databases continued 19:16 Implementing our own search 21:40 Demo: HNSW 25:04 Demo: Matrix 28:17 Demo: D&D 31:49 Demo: Pokemon 36:34 Demo: D&D 41:55 Demo: Duncan Hills 45:07 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3588 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning • https://amzn.to/3JVngcx Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) • https://amzn.to/3AQmIRg Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • https://amzn.to/2ZD7t0x Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • https://amzn.to/3m9HNjP https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #VectorDatabase #Vectors #DataStorage #Weaviate #Elastic #GenerativeAI #Database #TodayInTech #AlexanderChatzizacharias CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Derek Bingham - Senior Developer Advocate at AWS @DerekBingham RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/deekob.bsky.social https://github.com/deekob https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekwbingham https://dev.to/deekob ABSTRACT The developer landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. What began with coding assistants has rapidly evolved into AI agents and autonomous systems that are reshaping how we build software. However, this evolution isn't slowing down—it's accelerating. In this forward-looking session, we'll examine the current state of the developer ecosystem and how AI is fundamentally changing what it means to be a developer. With the use of real practical demos and examples we will explore : • The trajectory from coding assistants to AI agents. • How modern developer workflows are being reimagined • The shifting balance between human creativity and machine capabilities • Critical skills developers need to thrive in this new paradigm • Practical strategies for navigating this rapidly evolving landscape Whether you're concerned about keeping pace with change or excited about the possibilities ahead, this session is for you. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 05:50 [404] – Developer not found 06:20 Evolution: The evolution of developers tools 10:06 State: What is an agent? 11:42 Prompt engineering 12:35 Context engineering 14:17 Context management 101 17:59 Fears: The false fears 22:28 Spec-driven development 27:13 Opportunities 30:52 Challenges 33:19 Future 37:40 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3836 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Pete McBreen • Software Craftsmanship • https://amzn.to/456einq Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Jay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering • https://pragprog.com/titles/jwpaieng Kurt Dowswell • Programming with GitHub Copilot • https://amzn.to/3TM2HaL https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #AI #DeveloperEvolution #DeveloperEcosystem #AIAgents #AISkills #VibeCoding #Kiro #AgenticWorkflows #PromptEngineering #ContextEngineering #SpecDrivenDevelopment #DerekBingham #TodayInTech #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Luca Mezzalira - Solutions Architect, Consultant, International Speaker & Author of "Building Micro-Frontends" @My50c Teena Idnani - Senior Solutions Architect at Microsoft & Woman in Tech Leader Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/447 RESOURCES Luca https://www.buildingmicrofrontends.com https://twitter.com/lucamezzalira https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamezzalira https://linktr.ee/lucamezzalira https://lucamezzalira.com Teena https://www.linkedin.com/in/teenaidnani Links https://youtu.be/2DciND0Ng4w https://youtu.be/ZCrCqbblXjk https://youtu.be/6mLYZF97oaU https://youtu.be/p-R7Doigqzc https://youtu.be/yMDw0nlWd7s https://youtu.be/t67oWHa00iE https://youtu.be/D8qQUHrksrE https://youtu.be/kb-m2fasdDY https://youtu.be/zl5U8KO28rM https://youtu.be/C8hma_YSBX0 https://youtu.be/Z5OrR99OpiY https://youtu.be/rbTaEsieWsU https://youtu.be/MNUlTHIPLEw https://youtu.be/AqB6u7isTOw https://youtu.be/fROpZ6EYa54 https://youtu.be/GKgE4qfAppI https://youtu.be/DrBPXSiUWbI https://youtu.be/8oqT5tjqf-0 https://youtu.be/hhlxFtV_tZo DESCRIPTION Luca Mezzalira and Teena Idnani open with a clear framing: AI is accelerating certain tasks architects do, but the fundamentals — understanding context, connecting technical decisions to business capability, designing for evolutionary systems — are unchanged and arguably more important than ever. Luca identifies what he calls the shift from a T-shaped to an "M-shaped" architect: broader and deeper simultaneously, using AI as a research accelerator that collapses days of trade-off analysis into hours. Both agree that the biggest current risk isn't that AI will replace architects, but that AI-generated code can look convincingly correct and pass initial testing while concealing edge-case failures that only surface under load, regulatory audit, or upstream change — particularly dangerous in regulated industries like finance. The conversation sharpens around what architects must double down on to stay relevant. Luca advocates for merging deterministic and probabilistic systems through harness engineering — combining linters, static analysis, and deterministic guardrails with AI code assistants to produce more predictable outcomes. More broadly, both conclude that empathy is now a core technical skill: the architect's real job is riding the "elevator" between the engine room and the C-suite, translating freely in both directions. Luca's rule of thumb has shifted from 70% people and context, 30% technical — to nearly 90/10 in the AI era. The competitive edge for architects, they agree, is not in generating code, but in knowing which problems are worth solving and why. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:21 What changes for SW architects with AI? 03:52 What's overhyped about AI in SW architecture right now? 06:53 Is AI-generated code production-ready? 13:29 What skills are relevant today? 25:57 How to stay relevant as an SW architect in the AI era? 32:09 The elevator skill: Engine room to C-suite 33:08 Outro RECOMMENDED BOOKS Luca Mezzalira • Building Micro-Frontends • https://amzn.to/4ekqV5Y Luca Mezzalira • Front-End Reactive Architectures • https://amzn.to/43a8VVJ Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2ax Gregor Hohpe • Enterprise Integration Patterns, Vol 2 • https://amzn.to/3TNedQ3 https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SoftwareArchitecture #AISkills #ArchitectureSkills #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #TodayInTech #LucaMezzalira #TeenaIdnani #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Rod Johnson - Building the Future of Agent Frameworks at Embabel RESOURCES https://twitter.com/springrod https://github.com/johnsonr https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsonroda https://the-composition.com/@springrod ABSTRACT Aren’t LLMs smart enough to solve our problems directly? Aren’t MCP tools all we need to allow them to solve complex problems? The founder of Springsource Rod Johnson has a new Open Source project: Embabel; an agent framework, initially for the JVM, that is intended not just to play catchup with Python agent frameworks, but to leapfrog them. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:30 Gen Al: Some things work, some things don't 04:31 Why do Gen Al projects fail? 09:48 How do we fix this? 21:05 Demo 44:05 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3922 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Reynolds T. Smith • Hands-on Spring AI Projects • https://amzn.to/47eFR23 Sebastian Raschka • Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) • https://amzn.to/3WpVP3g Banu Parasurama • Mastering Spring AI • https://amzn.to/4oLWiZK https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #AgentFramework #AgenticAI #SpringAI #GenAI #JVM #JavaAI #Embabel #PromptEngineering #EnterpriseAI #LLM #TodayInTech #RodJohnson #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

Check out the full version on our YouTube channel now! #GOTOcon #AgileDevelopment #Agile #ObjectOrientedProgramming #SoftwareDesign #XP #EmpiricalDesign #ExtremeProgramming #LLM #GenAI #Programming #MartinFowler #KentBeck #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #ViralProgrammingShorts #Viral #ViralShorts #TodayInTech #GOTOcon Martin Fowler - Pioneer of Various Topics around Object-Oriented Technology & Agile Methods Kent Beck - Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming @KentLBeck Full version available here: https://youtu.be/ii_rLjQfjp0 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Martin Fowler • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3EVcHXQ Martin Fowler & Pramod Sadalage • NoSQL Distilled • https://amzn.to/3ChIpu7 Martin Fowler • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture • https://amzn.to/3lp4sIq Martin Fowler • Domain-Specific Languages • https://amzn.to/3nzOIFk Martin Fowler • UML Distilled • https://amzn.to/3kahjyA Kent Beck • Tidy First? • https://amzn.to/4gscjjK Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3sBASDG Kent Beck • Test Driven Development • https://amzn.to/3U4AXLs Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN Kent Beck • Implementation Patterns • https://amzn.to/3sBlCGL CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Roy van Rijn - Experienced Developer & Architect, Robotics Enthusiast & Hobby Mathematician @royvanrijn ORIGINAL TALK TITLE How Fast Can You Parse a File with 1 Billion Rows of Weather Data Using Java? RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/royvanrijn.com https://x.com/royvanrijn https://www.linkedin.com/in/royvanrijn https://github.com/royvanrijn https://royvanrijn.com Links https://adventofcode.com https://x.com/gunnarmorling https://www.morling.dev https://github.com/thomaswue/1brc-steps https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/blob/main/README.md#1brc-on-the-web https://thomaswue.dev ABSTRACT Last January a challenge was posted online by Gunnar Morling: How fast can you parse a file with 1 billion rows of weather data using Java? Little did I know this deceivingly simple question would lead me down a path that taught me all about: parallelism, memory mapped files, SWAR techniques (SIMD as a register), bit twiddling, branchless code, mechanical sympathy, Graal native compilation and finally... I even turned to the dark side: using sun.misc.Unsafe. Join me in this deep dive where I'll explain all the code changes and tricks that took me from the reference implementation which processes the billion records in 4+ minutes, to processing everything in under 2 seconds. Who knew Java could be this fast? [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:00 The challenge 04:07 Watch, learn, adopt, experiment 05:35 Which JVM? 07:03 Temperature as integer 08:01 Memory mapped files 09:35 Getting unsafe 11:04 SWAR 14:08 Stringless 14:55 Branchless programming 16:52 Parse the temperature 24:22 Exploit the data 25:22 Mechanical sympathy 26:32 Keeping track 34:59 Remember this? 36:40 Results 37:05 Summary 38:39 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3671 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Monica Beckwith • JVM Performance Engineering • https://amzn.to/3zuJ7Ig Scott Oaks • Java Performance • https://amzn.to/4eNhlH4 Trisha Gee, Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates • Head First Java • https://amzn.to/3k59BJ6 Trisha Gee & Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Java #JVM #GraalVM #JavaProgramming #JavaProgrammingTutorial #Parsing #Parallelism #MemoryMappedFiles #SWAR #BitTwiddling #BranchlessCode #MechanicalSympathy #GraalNative #JavaProgramming #AdventOfCode #1BillionRowChallenge #GunnarMorling #RoyvanRijn #TodayInTech #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Nada Amin - Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS RESOURCES https://github.com/namin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitnamin https://cv.namin.org Links https://namin.seas.harvard.edu https://github.com/namin/dafny-sketcher https://github.com/namin/staged-miniKanren https://github.com/namin/llm-verified-with-monte-carlo-tree-search https://github.com/namin/holey https://github.com/metareflection/dafny-annotator https://github.com/namin/eurisclo https://io.livecode.ch/learn/gregr/icfp2017-artifact-auas7pp ABSTRACT With live examples Nada will demonstrate: • Dafny and verification-aware programming, including proof by induction to verify properties of programs (for example, that an optimizer preserves semantics). • Multi-stage programming, a principled approach to writing programs that write programs, and its incarnation in multi-stage relational programming for faster synthesis of programs with holes—with the theoretical insight that a staged interpreter is a compiler, and a staged relational interpreter for a functional language can turn functions into relations running backwards for synthesis. • Monte Carlo Tree Search, specifically the VerMCTS variant, and when this exploration-exploitation sweet spot is a good match for synthesis problems. The ideas will be demonstrated with live examples and open-source artifacts spanning verified programming, relational programming, and LLM-guided synthesis, including Dafny Sketcher, multi-stage miniKanren, VerMCTS, and Holey. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:14 Verified synthesis 02:04 Neurosymbolic spectrum 03:14 Verification with Dafny 05:25 Demo 17:52 Orchestrating program synthesis 18:55 VerMCTS setup: Verified programming 20:41 PUCT 22:33 Dafny Sketcher 27:06 Holey 29:29 Demo 30:20 Lessons from Holey 31:15 Relational programming 33:22 Demo 35:46 Takeaways 37:27 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3919 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5 Wynne, Hellesoy & Tooke • The Cucumber Book • https://amzn.to/3tEUINJ https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Metaprogramming #Synthesis #Verification #VerMCTS #Dafny #MonteCarloTreeSearch #DafnySketcher #miniKanren #Holey #RelationalProgramming #NadaAmin #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1