CTO Craft
The UK's first learning and coaching network built for Engineering Managers, CTOs and Tech Leads.
CTO Craft works with CTOs, engineering managers, teams and entire businesses to build professional and leadership skills through organised and bespoke coaching, mentoring, workshops and training.
CTO Mentoring Circles
You’re not alone: join teams of 4 emerging CTOs and technology leaders weekly over 3 months, facilitated by an experienced CTO Coach, and build skills around leadership, strategy, process, planning and more.
One-to-One CTO Coaching
Set yourself up for success: Unlock your professional growth and leadership with face-to-face coaching by an experienced CTO, setting goals and identifying obstacles and patterns.
Workshops and Training
Involve me, and I learn: Experiential, hands-on workshop sessions on topics like Hiring, Technical Debt, Remote Teams, Agile Coaching, Avoiding Burnout and Team Motivation.
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What an Architect Can Learn from Retrospective Failures
Featuring Aino Vonge Corry
Based on 15 years of experience with facilitating retrospectives for software developers, I have described the most common challenges in antipatterns.
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Event-Driven Microservices: The Sense, Nonsense and a Way Forward
Featuring Allard Buijze
Learn the promises made and if microservices delivered, how microservices technology evolved and impacted decisions, and what it means to be event-driven.
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Technologies for Microservices
Featuring Eberhard Wolff
Many say: "Microservices are small REST services" — but the technology choice for microservices is much bigger. This talk provides an overview of various approaches and when to use them.
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Minimum Viable Migrations (MVM), A Path to Cloud Modernization
Featuring Ben Ellerby
Most teams take an Agile approach to day-to-day engineering, but for migration projects this strategy goes out the window. In this talk, Ben Ellerby explores how a focus on Minimum Viable Migrations allows assumptions to be tested faster, increased team focus and better value to customers.
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CI/CD with CircleCI (Pre-Conference Workshop)
Featuring Zan Markan and Angel Rivera
Join us for this free pre-conference workshop and learn the core principles of CI/CD with a hands-on workshop featuring the CircleCI platform, from commit to build, test, and deploy.
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Service Mess to Service Mesh
Featuring Rob Richardson
Join Rob Richardson for this introduction (or reintroduction) to service mesh. Through live demos of both Istio and Linkerd, Rob explains why (and why not) to use this popular infrastructure layer.
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CI/CD Agility and Controlling Pipeline Sprawl
Featuring Angel Rivera
In this talk, Angel will discuss the common pain points associated with existing CI/CD platforms — such as the issue of “Pipeline Sprawl” — attendees will learn technical strategies to develop optimized pipeline configurations and diminish potentially costly vendor-lock in.
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Designing Loosely Coupled Microservices
Featuring Chris Richardson
An essential principle of the microservice architecture is loose coupling. Ignoring this principle is a surefire way to becoming yet another "microservices failure story”. In this talk you will learn about the different kinds of coupling, how to minimize design time and increase the...
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Event-Driven Autoscaling on Kubernetes with KEDA and Azure Functions
Featuring Erwin Staal
Event-driven, serverless architectures are a hot topic in today’s cloud-native application development. In this demo-filled session, I'll introduce you to KEDA. KEDA is a component that provides event-driven autoscaling
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