GOTO Conferences

AI has industrialized finding vulnerabilities. Fixing them? Not so much. Steve Poole tells @olimpiupop.bsky.social why overwhelmed maintainers are walking away, why studies suggest vibe-coded apps pull in 3x more dependencies, and what to do now. Watch: youtu.be/aUIbUnWj8N0?... #OpenSource

Rails is Omakase. @ash-hq.org is Chipotle: build your own bowl. @sevensea.cat & @zachdaniel.dev (co-authors of Ash Framework) join @phx.dev on a lightsaber analogy, book-driven features, and why nobody asks beginner questions in Ash's Discord anymore. Watch: youtu.be/rjLEG38jM2g?...

Writing a book for a language that isn't 1.0 and breaks constantly? Garrison Hinson-Hasty did it anyway. Systems Programming with Zig: C interop with zero ceremony, allocators that beat tracking every object, and a CHIP-8 interpreter. 🎥 youtu.be/4kpk6c_5wG4?... #Ziglang

"Every week on X somebody says software development is dead. I gave AI a medium-difficulty C++ problem this year. It couldn't do it." Will Briggs talks with Todd Montgomery about learning languages in the AI era. 🎥 youtu.be/ad7i3NN8cXI?...

Platform engineering started in IT. It's now eating the entire enterprise. Kaspar von Grünberg & Luca Galante, authors of Thinking in Platforms, on why AI agents can't skip this step — and why 90%+ of orgs already have a platform initiative underway. Watch: youtu.be/mfWRYv2V71k?...

AI makes coding more joyful and also more fraught. How do we adapt? Kent Beck closes GOTO Copenhagen 2026 with “The Augmented Forest”
. Come join him!

Ever given advice that was obviously right, and watched it land as complete nonsense? Kent Beck has a name for it. The forest and the desert. #GOTOpodcast: he gets into what separates them, and how you get from crumbs to cake and stay there. Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

Your developers aren't users of the platform. They're customers. @danielbryantuk.com explains why platform engineering needs a product mindset—and why APIs, automation, abstractions, and composability matter more than simply adding more tools. Watch: youtu.be/ROBX-P7q1d8?...

Events are everywhere in modern software—but the terminology can get confusing fast. 😵‍💫 @tekiegirl.bsky.social cuts through the jargon, explaining the different types of events, how to design them, and why event granularity matters. Watch: youtu.be/1dIjb9A4uow?...

#Twitter started by giving users tools to control their own experience. Then recommendation algorithms changed the game. @j2bryson.bsky.social argues AI companies risk repeating the same mistake: concentrating power in one place while claiming being your "best friend". youtube.com/shorts/PBGEo...

New #GOTOpodcast episode out now. @gotocon.com argues that debates about machine consciousness pull attention away from the ones that decide how this goes: who is accountable, what is visible, and who gets a say. Listen here: gotopia.tech/podcast

A 32GB stick of RAM was $69 a year ago. Today it's $440. Jim Ledin explains why — and what it means for GPUs and LLMs — in this GOTO Book Club chat with MJ Jedrzejewski. 🎥 youtu.be/u7k1l_qkQH8?...

Your enterprise architecture has one enemy that never sleeps: complexity. 😳 @simon.bvssh.com explains why modern architecture needs continuous evolution, rapid feedback, and a focus on outcomes—not just architecture review boards and big design documents. Watch: youtu.be/UMaZ-O2KRCw?...

AI agents aren't just chatbots anymore. They're getting tools, permissions, and access to sensitive data. 😳 In this @yowconf.bsky.social talk, @insider.phd explores how malicious prompts can hijack agents—and turn them into an insider threat. Watch: youtu.be/fuJq99juh0Q?...

Help run one day of GOTO Copenhagen, attend the other two for free. Sessions and social events included. Sign-ups close Sunday. gotocph.com/2026/pages/join-the-crew

Technical leadership isn’t about telling people how to code. It’s about aligning a team on how you use your tools. @patkua.bsky.social explains how something as simple as a Git PR review can reveal—and fix—team misalignment. Watch the Short: youtube.com/shorts/y9vyl... #TechnicalLeadership

Only 6% of AI initiatives show real productivity gains. Ajay Chankramath's read: the differentiator is your platform foundations, whichever frontier model you pick. New #GOTOpodcast with Kaspar Von Grünberg. 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

Cloud promised instant infrastructure. So why are deployments still slow? @kief.com explains how application-driven infrastructure helps eliminate bottlenecks, reduce toil, and speed up software delivery. 🎥 youtu.be/r06NY-heh-E?...

One slow service can take a whole system with it. Sam Newman's Resilient Distributed Systems masterclass covers what you do before that happens. Tuesday Sep 29, Copenhagen. 5 seats left. gotocph.com/2026/masterc...

Programming languages never stand still. In this @yowconf.bsky.social talk, @kevlin.bsky.social explores where languages came from, why they evolve, and what the future might look like. A must-watch for every developer. 👇 youtu.be/nNWROjHZzuU?...

A Microsoft rep gave an AI talk to autistic teens... and got out-argued by one of them in under 5 minutes. @charleshumble.bsky.social tells the story — and what it says about the AI hype cycle. Watch: youtube.com/shorts/dh0TK...

Has your platform team ever said no to a feature request? If not, @abangser.bsky.social has bad news: you don't have a product, you have a request queue. New #GOTOpodcast with Abby and @charleshumble.bsky.social Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

#GOTOpodcast: @kevlin.bsky.social and @boicy.bovon.org on why software gets so complex and what helps. • Treating software as disposable • The popular frameworks • The human side of complexity Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

From XML Spring MVC to annotations to functional APIs— @poutsma.bsky.social shares 19 years of "living with past mistakes" in Spring. Expect bubble sort stories, API design lessons, and honest engineering hindsight. Watch: youtu.be/1o2E2n0KDZ4?...

What if your front-end tests ran automatically on every PR—and caught issues before users ever saw them? 🚀 @amyskapers.dev shows how to build reliable front-end testing pipelines with #GitHubActions in this practical @yowconf.bsky.social talk. 🎥 youtu.be/2om5ofTuV2Q?...

@simonbrown.je and his C4 Model: *Draw context and containers, mostly leave the rest *The deeper levels go stale with every commit *What matters is getting everyone to agree what the words mean #GOTOpodcast episode with @suksr.bsky.social out now: gotopia.tech/podcast

How does an 8-person dev team ship fast? Robert-Jan Huijsman: kill friction + non-determinism. Async work streams, types everywhere, retries, durable execution, strong consistency. It’s less "move fast" and more "remove chaos". 🎥 youtu.be/4vjSz108YdA?... #DeveloperProductivity

Does every problem really need GenAI? @charleshumble.bsky.social makes the case for smaller models, smarter engineering, and sustainable AI in this excellent @yowconf.bsky.social talk. Watch here: youtu.be/5rFuv4SK7OY?...

What's changing across containers, cloud, infrastructure as code, and AI? #GOTOPodcast episode w/ Sam Newman, @adrianmouat.com and @kief.com 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

"AI isn't a force of nature. What we do matters." @j2bryson.bsky.social on AGI myths, AI companions, transparency, regulation, and why engineers shouldn't surrender agency to "inevitable" technology. Watch: youtu.be/dUVZBNzI11g?... #AI #AIEthics #Governance

Can a 2MB WebAssembly app run on Kubernetes? 👀 In this @yowconf.bsky.social talk, @frankel.ch explores tiny Wasm workloads, Kubernetes runtimes, live demos, and why the tech is both exciting and risky today. Watch: youtu.be/gyGupmI1wvk?... #Wasm #WebAssembly #Kubernetes #Containers

"I don't tell people I'm a programmer anymore..." 😅 @samaaron.bsky.social has a better answer: "I'm a musician. I play code." A fun take on why programming is more than just building business software. 🎥 youtube.com/shorts/v7hL8... #Programming #CreativeCoding #SonicPi

Want more influence without becoming a manager? In this GOTO talk, @patkua.bsky.social explains why technical leadership is about creating alignment—not collecting titles—and shares a practical 5-step path to get started. 🎥 youtu.be/h4o0qcq1Kys?...

"I play code." @samaaron.bsky.social explains why programming belongs on stage, not just in the office. From @sonic-pi.net to AI & Tau5, this is a fresh look at creativity, software, and the future of coding. 🎥 Watch this @yowconf.bsky.social talk now: youtu.be/-L4OoOgQ5Wk?...

Writing a technical book isn't about explaining technology. It's about making it practical enough that someone can use it on Monday morning. Ajay Chankramath explains why that was the hardest part of writing "The Platform Engineer's Handbook". 🎥 youtube.com/shorts/tGuKK... #PlatformEngineering

#GOTOpodcast: Luca Mezzalira and Teena Idnani discuss what the architect's role looks like when AI can generate code but not judgment. 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

Can switching CPU architectures make your .NET services faster, cheaper & greener? In this GOTO talk, @saraemilybergman.bsky.social explains why #ARM is reshaping cloud infrastructure—and how to migrate #dotNET workloads without the pain. Watch: youtu.be/vuxdRlVmzSU?...

What if the future of conservation isn't something we see—but something we hear? 🎧🌏 Paul Roe shares how AI, big data, and ecoacoustics are transforming biodiversity monitoring, one soundscape at a time. Watch the full @yowconf.bsky.social talk: youtu.be/fh4aYWqvQL0?...

"90% of my skills just went to $0. The other 10% went up 1,000x." @kentbeck.com Kent breaks down what actually got MORE valuable now that AI writes the code. Watch: youtube.com/shorts/q23xD...

#GOTOpodcast: Dennis Hansen joins Jorge Orellana to talk model-based systems engineering and why complex systems need clearer thinking upfront. 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

#PlatformEngineering isn't about tools. It's about building products devs actually want to use. 🚀 Ajay Chankramath explains why strong foundations, product thinking & DevEx matter more than ever in this GOTO Book Club conversation with Kaspar von Grünberg. Watch now: youtu.be/0yxCKAMK3nk?...

AI is reshaping how we design & build software systems. If you're interested in AI governance, agentic systems & building reliable AI systems, check out ARC: Software Architecture in the Age of AI featuring experts from Google, AWS, Netflix, Microsoft & more - packt.link/ARC2026

Are your tests catching bugs...or slowing your team down? 👀 More tests don't always mean better software. @trishagee.bsky.social explores the hidden costs of #testing, common mistakes & how to build confidence without sacrificing speed. 🎥 youtu.be/e0gwyyO3Gd8?... #TDD #SoftwareEngineering

AI won't replace engineering judgment. At @yowconf.bsky.social, @kentbeck.com explained why the future belongs to developers who learn faster, preserve optionality, and use AI as a partner—not a shortcut. Watch the full talk: youtu.be/sMujMp4h_EY?...

A good platform hides complexity. A bad platform hides reality. 😳 Gregor Hohpe explains why platforms should build abstractions—not illusions—and what that means for platform teams, developers, and modern software architecture. Watch: youtu.be/mRoWGqcBSzk?...

Velocity is up! Now ask the uncomfortable question: "So what?" 😅 Elisabeth Hendrickson explains why proxy metrics often mislead teams—and why measuring value delivery is much harder than counting points. Watch: youtube.com/shorts/X66w0... Cc: @charleshumble.bsky.social

@jakewarner.com and @charleshumble.bsky.social discuss Sovereign Cloud, control planes, and why more organisations are rethinking how much they depend on large cloud providers. 🎧 Listen to the #GOTOpodcast episode: gotopia.tech/podcast

What if the best architecture isn't the most scalable, flexible, or future-proof one? 🤔 @tastapod.com argues for building the Best Simple System for Now—and avoiding the trap of solving problems you don't have yet. Watch: youtu.be/u4Cv65F9DcY?...

Every generation gets a new interface: ⌨️ Keyboard 🖱️ Mouse 📱 Touchscreen What's next? @kenpfeuffer.bsky.social explores the evolution of user interfaces and the technologies that may define the next decade. Watch: youtu.be/c0oewpwkwOg?...

What if the best software architect isn't the person making all the decisions? 🤔 At @yowconf.bsky.social @andrewhl.bsky.social explores how to empower teams to make architectural decisions, reduce bottlenecks, and build better systems together. Watch: youtu.be/BQYIBKIzY5g?... #SoftwareArchitecture