Talks

A curated set of software engineering talks worth watching.

Philip Roberts What the heck is the event loop anyway?

A clear, visual explanation of JavaScript's event loop, callbacks, the task queue, and browser runtime behavior.

Will Wilson Testing Distributed Systems with Deterministic Simulation

A deep systems talk on making distributed systems more testable by controlling time, scheduling, and failure.

Will Wilson Testing a Single-Node, Single Threaded, Distributed System Written in 1985

A practical systems testing talk about deterministic techniques and lessons from a surprisingly small distributed system.

Andrew Kelley Making Systems Programming Accessible

A systems programming talk about language design, tooling, and making low-level development more approachable.

Luca Mezzalira Why Your Micro-Frontends are a Distributed Monolith

An architecture talk on micro-frontend boundaries, coupling, team autonomy, and distributed frontend tradeoffs.

Google Micro Frontends at Google

A frontend architecture talk on large-scale UI composition, team ownership, and micro-frontend practices.

Architecture Microservices are Technical Debt

A pragmatic architecture talk about the costs, tradeoffs, and organizational complexity introduced by microservices.

Netflix Mastering Chaos

A Netflix talk on operating microservices at scale, resilience, chaos engineering, and distributed systems failure modes.

Fabio Mangione / Peter Laird Life with Spring Boot inside a Monorepo

A practical monorepo talk about Spring Boot, repository scale, developer workflows, and build organization.

Kelsey Hightower AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: What's Next

A forward-looking infrastructure talk on Kubernetes, DevOps, AI, and how engineering practices continue to evolve.

Kelsey Hightower Kubernetes for SysAdmins

A practical Kubernetes talk and demo focused on operational fundamentals, systems thinking, and infrastructure workflows.

Łukasz Jancewicz The World's Largest Angular Application

A large-scale frontend engineering talk about Angular at massive scale, architecture, migration, and maintainability.

Boshen Chen Oxc: The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler

A compiler tooling talk about Oxc, JavaScript performance, Rust-based tooling, and the future of frontend build systems.

Christof Leng Site Reliability Engineering at Google

A GOTO talk on SRE principles, reliability engineering, operations, and how Google approaches production systems.

Distributed Systems The 3 Golden Rules of Distributed Systems

A concise talk on the core realities and failure modes engineers need to internalize when building distributed systems.