Engineering Courses and Certifications

Shifting Spotify Engineering from Spreadsheets to Backstage

How Spotify replaced spreadsheets and scattered engineering tools with Backstage, a service catalog that grew into an internal portal for its engineering organization.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Making Sense of Chaos: Implementing Chaos Engineering in a Fintech Company

A fintech team describes introducing chaos experiments while meeting service-level obligations in a regulated industry.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Top 10 Fallacies in Platform Engineering and How to Avoid Them

Examine common platform engineering fallacies, from prioritization and abstraction mistakes to copying approaches used by Netflix and Amazon.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Strange Loop Conference

It's Like Coding in the Dark - The Need for Learning Culture in Engineering Teams

Explores how learning culture, developer voice, and performance culture can help engineering teams reduce learning debt.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Value and Waste in Software Engineering

Explore how waste enters software development through bad code reviews and technical debt, and how reducing it can create value.

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

Hack In The Box Security Conference

Reverse Engineering Custom ASICs By Exploiting Supply-Chain Leaks

Hardware reverse engineering of custom ASICs reveals undocumented interfaces and enables live JTAG debugging of Siemens S7-1200 PLCs.

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

44CON Information Security Conference

Introduction to Reverse Engineering C++

Workshop introducing reverse engineering techniques for C++ programs.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Trelis Research

Automated Prompt Engineering with DSPy - A Comprehensive Tutorial

See how DSPy automates prompt generation, then compare chain-of-thought, retrieval, and optimized few-shot approaches on multi-hop question answering.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Kubesimplify

DevOps vs Platform Engineering - Is DevOps Dead?

Explore how platform engineering builds on DevOps, using internal developer platforms to give developers self-service access to tools and infrastructure.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Centric

How AI Agent Jar3d Uses LangGraph and Prompt Engineering to Challenge Perplexity - Deep Dive

A code-level tour of Jar3d shows how LangGraph and meta-prompting support long-running web research and synthesized answers.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Centric

AI Agent - Open-Source Perplexity Alternative Using LangGraph and Advanced Prompt Engineering

See Jar3d, an open-source Perplexity alternative that uses Llama 3.1 to handle long-running, internet-based research tasks locally.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Centric

Dynamic AI Agents with LangGraph, Prompt Engineering, and RAG

See how Jar3d combines on-the-fly RAG and advanced prompting to handle long-running research tasks, from literature reviews to newsletters.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Centric

Exploring DSPy: A More Robust and Systematic Approach to Prompt Engineering

Explore DSPy as a more systematic, robust alternative to hard-coded prompt scripts.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GOTO Conferences

Lessons from a Hyperscaler - Observability and Chaos Engineering

How observability emerged at hyperscalers, and why high-cardinality, high-dimensionality tools matter for today’s complex applications and infrastructure.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sam Witteveen

Claude 3 Haiku Crash Course - Prompt Engineering and Multimodal Applications

A hands-on tour of Claude 3 Haiku, using code examples to explore text, structured outputs, and image-based tasks such as OCR and document analysis.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video