Tech Talks Weekly
LightNews LightNews
banner
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
Tech Talks Weekly
@techtalksweekly.bsky.social
86 followers 38 following 410 posts
A free weekly e-mail with all the recently uploaded talks from 100+ Software Engineering conferences.

Join 🔥 +7K readers who stopped scrolling through messy YT subscriptions and reduced FOMO 👉 https://techtalksweekly.io/
Posts Replies Media Videos
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
📰 Subscribe to get these weekly: www.techtalksweekly.io/
💬 Join 7,100+ software engineers discovering must-watch talks.
❤️ Give Tech Talks Weekly a shoutout or share it: it helps more than you think.
Tech Talks Weekly | Substack
Join 7,200+ readers who receive a free weekly email with all the recently uploaded talks from +100 software engineering conferences. Stop scrolling through messy YT subscriptions. Stop FOMO. Easy to unsubscribe. No spam, ever. Click to read Tech Talks Weekly, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
www.techtalksweekly.io
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
1️⃣5️⃣ Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency & Scoped Values — Balkrishna R
🚀 A Spring Boot demo showing how Loom simplifies concurrency in Java.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=iO7...
#ProjectLoom #JavaConcurrency #VirtualThreads #ParallelProcessing #AsyncJava #JVM #Scalability
Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values: Putting it all together by Balkrishna R
Project Loom brings lightweight concurrency to Java with Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency, and Scoped Values. But how do these features work together ...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
1️⃣4️⃣ The New Java Best Practices — Stephen Colebourne
☕ Pattern matching, records vs beans, Optional vs null — modern idioms for 2025.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=4sj...
#Java #JDK21 #JDK25 #SoftwareEngineering #BestPractices #JavaProgramming #JVM #SoftwareCraftsmanship
The New Java Best Practices by Stephen Colebourne
Java evolves. And so must our Best Practices. Because it is not enough to simply learn the new features, we must learn how to use them well. In this session ...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
1️⃣3️⃣ Using Brain Science to Communicate & Lead Technical Teams
🧠 How neuroscience helps with conflict, clarity & influence in tech teams.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=TSL...

#Leadership #Neuroscience #EngineeringCulture #TeamCommunication #ConflictResolution
Using Brain Science to Communicate and Lead Technical Teams Effectively
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Me...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
1️⃣2️⃣ 25 New & Rad CSS Features — Adam Argyle
🎨 Container queries, cascade layers, scroll animations, color-mix & more.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=QW6...
#CSS #WebDesign #FrontendDev #UIUX #CSSFeatures #DesignSystems #CSSGrid #ModernCSS #FrontendEngineering
Adam Argyle - 25 new & rad feature of CSS
🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲Tickets are ON SALE for CascadiaJS 2026 - https://cascadiajs.com/2026🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
1️⃣1️⃣ JavaScript is Faster than Rust? — Chris Heathwood
⚙️ V8 optimizations that make JS outperform Rust (sometimes).
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=Fgm...

#JavaScriptPerformance #V8Engine #RustLang #WebDev #Optimization #JITCompiler #ProgrammingLanguages #FrontendPerformance
JavaScript is Faster than Rust? - Chris Heathwood
ACCU Membership: https://tinyurl.com/ydnfkcyn---JavaScript is Faster than Rust? - Chris Heathwood - ACCU York---In this talk, we explore how JavaScript can o...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
🔟 A Front-End Architecture that Makes Sense — Fotis Adamakis
🧩 Clean module boundaries & scalable structure.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=Xyk...
#FrontendArchitecture #ReactJS #TypeScript #WebEngineering #UIEngineering #ScalableFrontend #DesignSystems #WebArchitecture
Fotis Adamakis - A Front-End Architecture that Makes Sense
One of the most critical and challenging aspects of a large-scale application is a good and reasonable folder structure. The goal is to apply modularisation ...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
9️⃣ Why Technical Founders Struggle with Sales
💡 “First-time founders focus on product. Second-time founders focus on sales.”
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=VsW...

#StartupAdvice #TechnicalFounders #StartupGrowth #GoToMarket #ProductMarketFit
The Secret To Why Technical Founders Struggle with Sales
Andy believes almost everyone today knows how to build a good product, so product development no longer gives founders a competitive edge. Instead, founders ...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
8️⃣ So You Think You Can Lead a Software Team? — Paul Grenyer
👥 Lessons & mistakes from years of team-leading.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=HUS...

#EngineeringLeadership #TechManagement #TeamLead #DeveloperExperience #PeopleManagement #LeadershipDevelopment
So You Think You Can Lead a Software Team? - Paul Grenyer - ACCU 2025
ACCU Membership: https://tinyurl.com/ydnfkcyn---So You Think You Can Lead a Software Team? - Paul Grenyer - ACCU 2025---Software engineering is hard. Leading...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
7️⃣ Abusing Claude Code (and Saving Infra Costs) — Barry van Someren
🤖 Using Claude for ops, compliance & audits — including a 15% power-bill cut.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=nPo...
#ClaudeAI #DevOps #AIAutomation #InfraOptimization #AIOps #AIinProduction #CostReduction
Not just code Abusing Claude Code to do just about anything but coding By Barry van Someren
Claude Code is an excellent coding assistant, but that’s not what this talk is about.This talk is about using a frontier LLM, strapped to your terminal, to d...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
6️⃣ Domain-Centric? Why Hexagonal, Onion & Clean Architecture Miss the Point — Oli
🍳 Over-engineered layering ≠ clarity.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=co3...
#CleanArchitecture #DomainDrivenDesign #SoftwareDesign #SystemDesign #SoftwareCraftsmanship #HexagonalArchitecture
Domain centric? Why Hexagonal, Onion and Clean architecture are answers to the wrong question by Oli
To separate technical from domain code, architectural approaches like Hexagonal or Onion Architecture are currently all the rage. However, discussions about ...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
5️⃣ How Browsers REALLY Load Web Pages — Robin Marx
🕸️ Async, defer, preload scanners, fetchpriority… explained like never before.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=n34...
#WebPerformance #FrontendEngineering #BrowserInternals #WebDev #PerformanceOptimization
How browsers REALLY load Web pages by Robin Marx
When browsers load a Web page and its subresources, A LOT happens under the hood. They need to take into account render/parsing blocking resources, use a pre...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
4️⃣ Code, Burnout & Depression — Manuel Bernhardt
🧍‍♀️ Honest, research-based talk on mental health in IT.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=pYu...
#MentalHealthInTech #DeveloperWellbeing #EngineeringCulture #Burnout
Code, burnout and depression: an engineering perspective of mental health in IT by Manuel Bernhardt
In comparison to other professions, software engineering doesn't really have that many immediate risks to health. The first idea that comes into mind whe...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
3️⃣ GenAI at Scale: Red Hat CTO’s $1M→$500/mo Secret
💸 How Red Hat slashed GenAI infra costs by 99.95%.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=NRH...
#GenAI #MLOps #CloudCostOptimization #AIInfrastructure #AIOps #RedHat #LargeLanguageModels #DevOps #CostSaving
GenAI at Scale: Red Hat CTO's $1M to $500/Mo Cost Secret
This is the hard truth your CFO needs to know about GenAI: 90% of LLM prototypes fail to reach production because of astronomical inference costs and perform...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
2️⃣ Top 10 Event-Driven Architecture Pitfalls — @VictorRentea
💣 Duplicate deliveries, race conditions, out-of-order messages and how to fix them.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=0Sn...
#EventDrivenArchitecture #Microservices #DistributedSystems #SoftwareArchitecture #SystemDesign
Top 10 Event Driven Architecture Pitfalls by Victor Rentea
You send a message instead of calling a REST API. What can possibly go wrong? Welcome to the Event-Driven Adventure Park 🎢 — where every message is a roller...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
1️⃣ Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript & AI — Armin Ronacher
Flask’s creator compares languages & explains why Rust isn’t startup-friendly.
📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=45k...
#RustLang #Python #TypeScript #GoLang #AIEngineering #ProgrammingLanguages #SoftwareEngineering
Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript and AI with Armin Ronacher
Armin Ronacher is the creator of the Flask framework for Python, was one of the first engineers hired at Sentry, and now the co-founder of a new startup. He ...
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
See the latest issue 👉 https://www.techtalksweekly.io/
Tech Talks Weekly | Substack
A free weekly newsletter that brings all the recently uploaded talks from +100 software engineering conferences. Join +6K readers who stopped scrolling through messy YT subscriptions and reduced FOMO. Easy to unsubscribe. No spam, ever. Click to read Tech Talks Weekly, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
www.techtalksweekly.io
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
9/9. "Java annotation processing magic for muggles by Álvaro Sánchez Mariscal Arnaiz" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 19 Feb 2025 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=mAXNKkejl38
Java annotation processing magic for muggles by Álvaro Sánchez Mariscal Arnaiz
Annotations, introduced in Java 5 two decades ago, have revolutionised how we develop Java applications. Traditional frameworks like Spring and Hibernate rel...
youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
8/9. "Kubernetes. From 0 to Production-Grade with Java. by Kevin Dubois" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 19 Feb 2025 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-aDdou2kNY
Kubernetes. From 0 to Production-Grade with Java. by Kevin Dubois
I hear you thinking, “is this yet another session about doing cloud native development?”. Well.. yes, sort of, but we promise it’s going to be a good one - o...
youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
7/9. "Beyond Rust: Rethinking Java Efficiency with Quarkus" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 21 Mar 2025 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=rOocSJXKIqo
@infoq.bsky.social
Beyond Rust: Rethinking Java Efficiency with Quarkus
Senior developers, software architects, and engineering leaders: are you ready to redefine your understanding of Java performance? Holly Cummins from Red Hat...
youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
6/9. "Four Approaches to Reducing Java Startup Time: AppCDS, Native Image, Project Leyden, CRaC @ SpringIO" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 04 Sep 2025 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVFJ0VXWBZo
Four Approaches to Reducing Java Startup Time: AppCDS, Native Image, Project Leyden, CRaC @ SpringIO
Spring I/O 2025 - 22-23 May, BarcelonaSpeakers: Pasha Finkelshteyn / Catherine EdelveisSlides: https://code-with-bellsoft.github.io/java-startup-time-springi...
youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
5/9. "What Can a Java Developer Learn from Golang? by Grzegorz Piwowarek" ⸱ +5k views ⸱ 20 Jan 2025 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=oN6DUZ68S1c
What Can a Java Developer Learn from Golang? by Grzegorz Piwowarek
Golang is often mocked for its simplistic approach of solving every problem with a finite number of if statements and for loops. However, it features a few f...
youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
4/9. "Large Scale Changes with AI – Migrating millions of lines of Java to Kotlin at Uber | Ty Smith" ⸱ +5k views ⸱ 25 Aug 2025 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=K2PN03AepC0
Large Scale Changes with AI – Migrating millions of lines of Java to Kotlin at Uber | Ty Smith
Recording brought to you by American Express. https://americanexpress.io/kotlin-jobsUber has one of the largest Android codebases in the world, and while Kot...
youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
techtalksweekly.bsky.social
3/9. "Modular RAG Architectures with Java and Spring AI by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2025" ⸱ +8k views ⸱ 06 Aug 2025 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=yQQEnXRMvUA
Modular RAG Architectures with Java and Spring AI by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2025
Spring I/O 2025 - 21-23 May, BarcelonaSlides: https://speakerdeck.com/thomasvitale/modular-rag-architectures-with-java-and-spring-aiRepo: https://github.com/...
youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM