GOTO Conferences Courses

Worse Is Better, for Better or for Worse

Explore the counterintuitive "Worse Is Better" concept in software development, challenging conventional wisdom about product design, user experience, and market success.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why Agile Doesn't Scale and What You Can Do About It

Explore challenges of scaling Agile and strategies for successful large-scale delivery, focusing on shared principles, clear vision, and contextual consistency as key enablers.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Without Simplicity, There's Just No Agility

Explore how simplicity in software design enhances agility, improves comprehension, and leads to adaptable solutions. Learn practical techniques for reducing complexity and managing natural constraints in development.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Incentives - Why or Why Not

Explore the surprising research on incentives and their impact on motivation, challenging common beliefs about rewards and punishments in various contexts, from animal behavior to software development.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Frankenbuilds - If Agile is so Good, Why Are Our Products so Bad?

Explores why Agile teams can deliver high-quality code yet produce unsuccessful products. Discusses systemic reasons for failure and emphasizes the importance of understanding problems and setting clear goals.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Mythbusting Remote Procedure Calls

Debunking myths about Remote Procedure Calls in distributed systems. Explores origins, evolution, and limitations of RPC, highlighting challenges in networked applications and alternative approaches.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hard Things Made Easy - Monads

Demystifying monads: Learn how these powerful interfaces can simplify complex programming concepts and enhance your coding skills.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Geek's Guide to Leading Teams

Practical tips for leading technical teams, focusing on people issues, building trust, fostering diversity, and cultivating a healthy team culture for effective software development.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Array Thinking Escaping The Groove

Explore array programming concepts from APL and J languages to enhance parallelization and improve coding efficiency. Learn alternative approaches to traditional loops and branching.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Stop Building The Wrong Product Righter Build The Right Product

Learn to build the right product by focusing on outcomes over outputs. Discover how to create valuable metrics, track progress incrementally, and conduct effective user testing to ensure product success.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Database as a Value - Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey explores Datomic, a revolutionary database system that treats data as immutable values, offering simplicity, scalability, and powerful querying capabilities for modern software development.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Functional Programming from First Principles

Explore functional programming fundamentals, side effects, and the contrast with imperative programming. Delve into concepts like monoids, category theory, and monads in this insightful talk by Erik Meijer.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Addressing Algorithmic Bias

Examines how design and data choices produce algorithmic bias, then considers fairness trade-offs, auditing, and mitigation strategies.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why Static Typing Came Back

An examination of why statically typed languages regained popularity and what that shift may mean for programming languages’ future.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Higher Kinded Types in a Lower Kinded Language - Functional Programming in Kotlin

Explore how Arrow brings functional abstractions and higher-kinded types to Kotlin, including how those types work under the hood.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk