GOTO Conferences Courses

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

Technologists Around the Campfire - Social Audio as a Vector For Engineering Wisdom

A look at how social audio revives engineers’ oral tradition for sharing hard-won technical wisdom across remote work.

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

Writing For Nerds - Blogging For Fun and Not Much Profit

Using parallels with programming, Charles Humble shows engineers how to develop a writing process, shape ideas, and share their knowledge through published work.

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

Shaping Language in Cybersecurity for People

Explores how positive, people-centered language can make cybersecurity clearer and build confidence to stay safe online.

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

Concurrency Oriented Programming in a Modern World

Erlang’s concurrency model shows how a language built for fault tolerance and multicore execution remains relevant to today’s distributed software.

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

One Does Not Simply Add MFA

A real-world MFA failure shows how attacker tactics and implementation choices shape the protection authentication provides.

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

Code Red - The Business Impact of Code Quality

Connects code quality metrics to business outcomes to prioritize technical debt remediation and make the costs of quality trade-offs clear.

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

Visualizing Performance - The Developers’ Guide to Flame Graphs

Learn to build and interpret flame graphs for CPU profiling, troubleshoot stack and symbol issues, and use advanced graph types to investigate system performance.

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

Engineering for Software - How to Amplify Creativity

Shows how testability and speed can amplify creativity in software work.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Java in the Cloud with GraalVM

See how GraalVM Native Image can give Java cloud applications faster startup, lower memory use, and a smaller attack surface.

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

Why Most Data Projects Fail and How to Avoid It

A five-question framework for aligning data teams, business value, timelines, infrastructure, and execution to reduce project failures.

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