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Conferences, lectures, and public deep dives — on software architecture, engineering leadership, AI in the SDLC, and system reliability.
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- State of AI4SDLC: How AI Is Changing the Software IndustryDotNext 2026 keynote: the industry snapshot, a 10,000+ engineer fintech's AI platform, and at the core Chad Fowler's Regenerative Software: seven primitives that outlive the implementation and how an engineer's work changesDotNext 2026Fellow#AI#Platform#Architecture
- Kubernetes: Too Complex?Alexander Polomodov on DevOps Deflope #62: Kubernetes complexity, cognitive load, internal developer platforms, and AI agents’ access to a cluster.DevOps Deflope · #62PodcastFellow#Architecture#SRE / Reliability#Platform
- How AI Will Change Software Development: Programmers, Teams, and IT CompaniesAlexander Polomodov on Organized Programming #92: product engineers, enterprise AI adoption, platforms, knowledge, development economics, and junior training.Organized Programming · Kirill Mokevnin · #92Podcast#AI#Leadership#Career
- When Code Became Cheap: Where Are Value, Responsibility, and Expertise Now?Deep Tech Night panel: AI business value, agent permissions, safe architecture, junior training, and engineering workload. Recording and summary.Deep Tech Night · YandexDiscussion#AI#Leadership#Career
- AI4SDLC: What I Would Do Differently If I Knew Then What I Know NowWhat to buy, adapt, and own in AI4SDLC—from the end-to-end stack to verifiable episodes, stable prefixes, and specialist modelsDeep Tech NightFellow#AI#Architecture#Platform
- The CTO’s First 90 DaysHow to begin the transition before day one, research the company, negotiate the mandate, spend the first month listening, and pass probation with measurable outcomesStratoplan · CTO ProgramCTO#Leadership#Career
- State of AI4SDLC: How AI Shifts Bottlenecks Across Software DeliveryIT Picnic edition: how AI accelerates coding and moves bottlenecks to intent, review, tests, and delivery; agent-first platforms, evals, and flow metricsIT Picnic 2026 · T-BankFellow#AI#Platform
- Adopting AI in a Large Fintech: Choosing an Agent Stack ConfigurationEight agent-stack configurations, data and authority paths, Bank of Russia guidance, and a target portfolio for a large fintechPodlodka AI Engineers Club · T-BankFellow#AI#Architecture#Platform
- AI Dev Podcast #8 / Claude Dualism: How Not to Overdelegate Permissions to Claude/CodexA TechTrain podcast discussion on moving from vibe coding to AIDLC through agent skills, documentation in Git, ADRs, traceability, security reviews, and governed autonomyAI Dev Podcast · TechTrainPodcastFellow280 views6 likes#AI#Architecture#Platform
- State of AI4SDLC: How AI Shifts Bottlenecks Across Software DeliveryHow AI accelerates coding and moves bottlenecks to intent, review, tests, and delivery; agent-first platforms, evals, and flow metricsTurbo ML Conf · T-BankFellow137 views6 likes#AI#Platform
- AI Dev Podcast #7: Security, Agents, and the Future of DevelopmentA TechTrain podcast discussion on agentic development risks, evals, token economics, new SDLC threats, and non-human identitiesAI Dev Podcast · TechTrainPodcastFellow296 views9 likes#AI#SRE / Reliability#Platform
- Generation of EverythingA QAk-QAk podcast on AI generation in software development, the engineer role, and production processesQAk-QAk · T-BankPodcastFellow#AI#Platform
- State of AI4SDLC: How AI Changes Development Processes in Large CompaniesIndustry research, a large fintech AI platform (Spirit, Nessy, T-Cover Agent), and the new engineering workSaint HighLoad++ 2026Fellow204 views10 likes#AI#Platform
- State of AI4SDLC: from AI assistants to agentic developmentAI4SDLC Research, SE 2.0, spec-driven development, and evals for SDLC agentsAI Dev Conf 2026Fellow470 views20 likes#AI#Platform
- AI Yesterday, Today, TomorrowAn AI Dev Conf panel discussion on context, agentic coding, metrics, policies, evals, and production outcomes from AI in developmentAI Dev Conf 2026DiscussionFellow170 views2 likes#AI#Leadership#Platform
- AI Dev Podcast #2: Architecture in the AI EraA TechTrain podcast discussion on LLMs, multi-agent systems, SOE 2.0, the new architect role, context, and reuseAI Dev Podcast · TechTrainPodcastFellow1,597 views31 likes#AI#Architecture#Platform
- From AI-Native Organization to AI-Native Leadership: The CTO Role in 2026What happens to the CTO when tools, management units, and engineering economics changeStratoplan - Management 2026Fellow#AI#Leadership
- State of AI4SDLC: Research, Processes, and the Team Lead's RoleHow AI is changing engineering culture and what it means for DevOpsDevOps Conf 2026Fellow430 views17 likes#AI#Leadership
- How AI Changes Engineering Culture and What It Means for Team Leads and EngineersAI4SDLC research, transition to AI-native processes, and the team lead role transformationYandex · Dream TeamleadFellow34,579 views182 likes#AI#Leadership
- How to Really Prepare for a System Design InterviewInterviewer expectations, candidate mistakes, architectural thinking, and systematic preparation{ между скобок }InterviewFellow3,460 views98 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- AI in SDLC: from assistants to agentsCopilots, MCP/A2A, AlphaEvolve, SE 3.0 and large fintech cases (Spirit, T-Cover Agent)AI Boost 2025Fellow1,488 views42 likes#AI
- System Design Interview: Don't Copy Big TechWhy system design interviews matter, how to design the format outside big tech, what to assess, and how to adjust task difficultyRupor Lida 3Fellow444 views18 likes#Architecture#Career
- AI in SDLC: why just allowing Cursor isn't enoughCopilots, vibe coding, MCP, Platform Engineering and Google, ByteDance, Uber, Datadog casesCTO Conf X 2025Fellow2,683 views87 likes#AI#Platform
- Round Table: Tech Lead and the Individual Contributor TrackHow the tech lead role emerges, its business value, and growth along the IC track without going into managementTechLead Conf 2025DiscussionCTO406 views15 likes#Career#Leadership
- Reliability and Security: Foundation or Optional?Emergent system properties, ATAM, STRIDE, Google/Netflix/AWS cases, and the Spirit platformPHDays Fest 2025Fellow145 views8 likes#SRE / Reliability#Architecture
- Site Reliability Engineering and the Individual Contributor RoleAn interview on SRE, reliability, on-call, observability, engineering ownership, and career growth after SeniorTired Tech DirectorInterview677 views22 likes#SRE / Reliability#Career#Leadership
- System Design Interview: Keep It or Kill It?A discussion on the System Design Interview: what it tests and whether the skill matters in real workHighLoad++ 2024DiscussionFellow1,091 views28 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Hard Skills Maxed Out — What's Next?Soft skills for engineers: Cynefin, T-Growth, planning, responsibility, communicationSoft WeekendCTO676 views16 likes#Leadership#Career
- How and Why to Measure Engineering ProductivityDORA, SPACE, DevEx, QUANTS and a large fintech experience with T-MeterD-day 2024CTO178 views4 likes#Leadership#Platform
- What Can a System Analyst Become?An InSAit podcast on system analyst career paths, product thinking, and white papersInSAit · T-BankPodcast#Career#Product#Architecture
- Architecture in a Large Fintech: Yesterday, Today, TomorrowEvolution from COTS to in-house dev, Spirit and AI-native architectureArchDays 2024Fellow1,924 views46 likes#Architecture#AI
- Architecture at the Start: Preparing for SuccessA Podlodka Techlead Crew discussion on reliable architecture, retries, self-healing, and failure resiliencePodlodka Techlead CrewDiscussionFellow1,176 views21 likes#Architecture#SRE / Reliability
- How to Structure Teams for Business DemandsTeam Topologies, Conway's Law, cognitive load, and a large fintech caseSelectel Meetup 2024CTO546 views12 likes#Leadership
- Managing Effectiveness in Tech and ProductA panel discussion on engineering effectiveness, Discovery and Delivery metrics, and scaling practicesBezvotetogovotvsego · AvitoDiscussionCTO861 views27 likes#Leadership#Product#Platform
- Architecture in a Large Fintech: How We Design SolutionsDDD, ADR/RFC, guilds, tech radar, internal PaaS, and trade-offsT-Dvor 2024Fellow#Architecture
- Case Roulette: Examples of Bad ArchitectureA discussion on signs of bad architecture, recurring mistakes, and ways to prevent architectural problemsPodlodka Techlead CrewDiscussion830 views24 likes#Architecture#Leadership
- How and Why to Measure Engineering ProductivityDORA, SPACE, DevEx, QUANTS and a large fintech experience with T-MeterMTS True Tech Day 2024CTO2,903 views68 likes#Leadership#Platform
- MLOps in Theory and PracticeA podcast discussion on MLOps, the connection between data engineering, ML engineering and app engineering, and BigTech production practicesT-Education · HSEPodcastFellow2,100 views60 likes#AI#Platform
- The Full-Cycle Engineer: What It Takes and How to Become OneWhat technology companies expect from developers after DevOps and shift-left, why platforms matter, and how to grow beyond SeniorSDE Conference 2024Fellow897 views34 likes#Architecture
- Professional Communities in CorporationsA panel discussion on why corporations need professional communities, how to measure their effectiveness, and how to build leader-independent practicesBezvotetogovotvsegoDiscussionCTO465 views15 likes#Leadership#Career
- White paper: Google's Hybrid Approach to ResearchA discussion on R&D at Google, the hybrid approach to research, and collaboration between research and product engineering teamsCode of ArchitectureDiscussionFellow787 views27 likes#Leadership#Platform
- How to Form Team Structure for Business DemandsTeam Topologies, Conway's Law, cognitive load, and a large fintech caseYaTalks 2023 · YandexCTO1,995 views63 likes#Leadership
- How RnD Appears in Large Tech CompaniesGoogle, Amazon, Yandex, large fintech — four models of RnD emergenceTeamLead++ ConfCTO234 views8 likes#Leadership
- Secure by designA SafeCode Live discussion on Secure by design, secure development, SBD competencies, and secure system designSafeCode LiveDiscussionFellow715 views8 likes#Architecture#Platform
- How a Professional Can Stay Motivated to Keep LearningA Weekend Talk discussion on career growth, lifelong learning, books and white papers, talks, and personal motivation in ITWeekend Talk · Frontend WeekendPodcastCTO1,001 views30 likes#Career#Leadership
- Public System Design Interview at ArchDays 2023Designing an A/B testing platform: experiments, assignment service, metrics, and architectural trade-offsArchDays 2023Public interviewFellow24,901 views440 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Technical Leaders at TinkoffAn ITBizRadio discussion on technical leadership roles, interviews, hard and soft skills, CTOs, Delivery Managers, tech leads, and architectsITBizRadio · CxO TalksDiscussionCTO2,033 views52 likes#Leadership#Career
- Designing Reliable SystemsRisk, SLOs, monitoring, and resilience patterns for distributed systemsSmartDev 2023Fellow0 likes#SRE / Reliability#Architecture
- Designing Reliable Systems — Is It Worth the Effort?Risk, SLOs, monitoring, and resilience patterns for distributed systemsStachka · Nizhny NovgorodFellow357 views11 likes#SRE / Reliability#Architecture
- Public Troubleshooting Interview for SRE EngineersA live SRE interview walkthrough: Yellow, payment drop, hypotheses, metrics, and Lead engineer behaviorDevOops 2023Public interviewFellow9,836 views231 likes#SRE / Reliability#Interviews
- How to grow when you're already a Senior System AnalystCompetency matrix, growth process and 4 career tracks after SeniorFlow Conference 20231,169 views32 likes#Career
- White paper: Large-scale cluster management at Google with BorgA Code of Architecture discussion on Borg, Google's cluster management, SRE, reliability, and platform engineeringCode of Architecture · IT Fest KazanDiscussionFellow516 views15 likes#SRE / Reliability#Platform#Architecture
- Tinkoff, People Management, Teams, and MeaningA livestream on Tinkoff's engineering organization, team management, architecture practices, and development effectivenessBezvotetogovotvsegoDiscussionCTO666 views29 likes#Leadership#Platform#Product
- Improving Software Development FlowArchitecture, processes, and metrics for better flow — Five Ideals, Conway's Law, DDD, EDAIT Fest · Kazan2,193 views78 likes#Architecture#Leadership
- Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational DatabasesA Code of Architecture discussion on Amazon Aurora's design, redo logging, quorums, durability, and cloud-native databasesCode of ArchitectureDiscussionFellow637 views19 likes#Architecture#Platform
- System Design Through the Lens of ReliabilityA podcast discussion on reliability in system design, architecture interviews, SRE practices, and common design mistakes503 Podcast · JUG Ru GroupPodcastFellow#SRE / Reliability#Architecture#Interviews
- Technical Interview: Architecture SectionA public architecture interview for a C++ developer: system design, section flow, and mistakes on both sidesC++ Russia 2023Public interviewFellow1,589 views49 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- How and Where Should an Engineer Grow After Senior?Career paths after Senior, Staff+ levels, competency matrix, and engineer growth processIT's Tinkoff Java Meetup 2023CTO4,993 views#Career#Leadership
- White paper: Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization SystemA Code of Architecture discussion on Zanzibar, ReBAC, relationship tuples, authorization in distributed systems, and SpiceDBCode of Architecture · Kod ZheltyyDiscussionFellow1,440 views#Architecture#Platform
- How to Hire Technical ManagersProcess, interviews, evaluation — an inside view from a large fintechTeamLead ConfCTO7,598 views228 likes#Leadership
- Who Will We Become When We Grow Up? Alexander PolomodovA career discussion for systems analysts: growing toward architecture, skills, and materials for developmentTech Analyst Club · JUG.RUDiscussionFellow725 views25 likes#Career#Architecture
- Software Architecture Basics: Architecture CharacteristicsA discussion on architecture characteristics, trade-offs, SLOs, cost, and practical use of Fundamentals of Software Architecture{ mezhdu skobok }DiscussionFellow1,937 views47 likes#Architecture#SRE / Reliability
- Fintech Trends: Cloud TechnologiesWhat cloud is, IaaS / PaaS / SaaS, Kubernetes, and how it reshapes fintech strategiesFintech School 20234,022 views118 likes#Platform
- The Distributed Computing ManifestoA Code of Architecture discussion on Amazon's distributed systems manifesto, SOA, microservices, workflow-based model, DDD, and data domainingCode of Architecture · Kod ZheltyyDiscussionFellow2,233 views#Architecture#Platform
- How to Pass a System Design InterviewSeven System Design Interview steps: requirements, boundaries, flows, technology choices, scaling, and candidate behavior.ArchDays 2022Fellow67,199 views1,771 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Public System Design Interview at ArchDays 2022Designing a hotel booking service: requirements, system boundaries, and architectural trade-offsArchDays 2022Public interviewFellow98,401 views1,796 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- The Evolution of the Technical LeaderFrom teamlead (~10) to Engineering Manager (~50) to CTO (~150+): how focus and skills shiftSouth HUB 2022CTO852 views29 likes#Leadership#Career
- An ARCHI-important StageA QAk-QAk podcast on architecture design, the architect role, requirements, quality attributes, and differences between web and mobile architectureQAk-QAk · Kod ZheltyyPodcast547 views#Architecture#Product
- Channel. Product. PlatformMobile bank evolution: from channel to product and superapp platform with release trainsSaint HighLoad++ 2022CTO1,254 views37 likes#Platform#Product
- System Design Interview: Estimation and Interview FrameworkA podcast discussion on back-of-the-envelope estimation, the System Design Interview framework, requirement clarification, and architecture trade-offs{ mezhdu skobok }PodcastFellow3,775 views88 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- How to Grow When You're Already a SeniorThe post-Senior career fork: Team track vs Tech track, the path to CTO and to FellowDotNext Spring 20223,986 views125 likes#Career
- Interview with Alexander PolomodovA DotNext 2022 interview on engineering growth, career tracks, and post-Senior developmentDotNext 2022InterviewCTO357 views10 likes#Career#Leadership
- Roundtable. How to become a seniorWho a senior is, what skills to develop, and how interviews, conferences, and training affect the career pathDotNext Spring 2022Discussion2,248 views63 likes#Career#Interviews
- Assessing SRE Skills in InterviewsSystem design vs troubleshooting: USE / RED / Golden Signals and why one stage remainedDevOps Conf 2022Fellow22,042 views457 likes#Interviews#SRE / Reliability
- Technical Interview: Architecture SectionA public architecture interview for a C++ developer: system design, section flow, and mistakes on both sidesC++ Russia 2022Public interviewFellow13,082 views212 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Architects: Becoming an Ideal Team PlayerA podcast discussion on the architect role, teamwork, system design, architecture characteristics, and strategic trade-offsKem Ty Stal · TinkoffPodcast#Architecture#Leadership#Career
- Building an Architect CareerA podcast discussion on architect career growth, the 20-minute rule, tech radars, social connections, and architecture practices at TinkoffChitaem VmestePodcast#Architecture#Career#Leadership
- The Design Section in Tech InterviewsDesign section structure, back-of-envelope sizing, and Senior+ evaluation criteriaArchDays 2021Fellow18,709 views457 likes#Interviews#Architecture
- Evolutionary Architecture in PracticeA Tinkoff Agile Conference 2021 talk on fitness functions, -ilities, modularity, and incremental change at scaleTinkoff Agile Conference 2021Fellow2,752 views70 likes#Architecture
- Reshaping Mobile Bank Development for BusinessPlatform, release train, and Conway's Law — modularity and feature team autonomyTechLead Conf 20211,118 views36 likes#Product#Architecture
- DevOps Culture: Myths and RealityWho, what, and how — DevOps myths, the reality of Team Topologies and Engineering MaturityAGIMA DevOps Meetup1,820 views49 likes#SRE / Reliability#Leadership
- What is a CTO from Startup to IPOThe org S-curve and CTO role evolution: Coder → Delivery → Architect → All-in-oneHighLoad++ Spring 2021CTO5,086 views153 likes#Leadership#Career
- The SOLID Team LeadManagement fundamentals for engineers through OOP and SOLID — feature teams, competency matrix, contractsTeamLead Conf 2021CTO10,559 views218 likes#Leadership
- Product Approach to ITIT as a service vs IT as a product, Bank 4.0, and the transition to a product modelMail.Ru MeetupCTO#Product
- Architecture at ScaleSoftware / Solution / Enterprise Architecture, RFC, ADR, and working groupsArchDays 2020Fellow5,243 views106 likes#Architecture
- Modern Approaches to Software DevelopmentClean Architecture, data evolution, microservices, DevOps, IaaC, and Data MeshDevfest 2020Fellow1,988 views104 likes#Architecture
- Digitalization and TechnologiesDigital transformation by ThoughtWorks, Bank 4.0, and TechRadarRussoft WebinarCTO136 views#Product
- The Web in the Mobile-First EraStatistics, web evolution from 1989 to 2020, and web developer prospectsGDG PartyCTO769 views40 likes#Product
- Round Table: Platform Teams — Value or Hype?Why platform teams, how they differ from inner source, and what problems they createTechLead Conf 2020DiscussionCTO741 views12 likes#Platform#Leadership
- Evolution of tinkoff.ru over 3 YearsFrom monolith to micro-frontends, a microservice CMS, and personalizationArchDays 2019Fellow6,063 views98 likes#Architecture
- Postmortems or How We Learn from FailuresBlameless postmortems, Etsy, Google SRE Book/Workbook, and our templateConferenceFellow931 views15 likes#SRE / Reliability
- Alexander Polomodov and Kirill Zuev: Studio CFT Live at CodeFest 2019A Studio CFT live discussion on software development, architecture, and engineering practices in fintechStudio CFT · CodeFest 2019Discussion162 views3 likes#Architecture#Leadership
- The Web Through a Backend Engineer's Eyes: What Comes NextA backend engineer's view of how code, storage, systems, infrastructure, and automation evolvedGetIT Meetup109 views5 likes#Architecture#Product
- Development Culture at Tinkoff.ru: From Monoproduct to EcosystemWhat / how / who: strategy, processes, architecture, testing, infrastructure, and the team lead's role in Tinkoff.ru growthCodeFest 20191,256 views19 likes#Leadership#Product#Architecture
- How We Hire and Motivate EmployeesHiring practices, employee motivation, and team development in Tinkoff.ru acquisitionBinary District · Teamlead MeetupCTO1,527 views39 likes#Leadership#Career
- “The Helmsman” in the Business WorldWhy Kubernetes won and why CNCF certifications matter (CKA, CKAD, KCSP)Yandex463 views11 likes#Platform
- tinkoff.ru Acquisition: From Banner Click to Personalized PagePerformance marketing, frontend tinkoff.ru, SEO, personalization, and acquisition team topologyHighLoad++ 20181,395 views19 likes#Product#Architecture#Platform
- The Development Manager Career PathFrom Junior to CTO: steps, the Senior ≠ Teamlead and Teamlead ≠ CTO forksYandex Meetup 2018CTO2,813 views50 likes#Career#Leadership
- Scaling a Team TenfoldHow a frontend lead stays sane: five steps of team growth 4 → 40, evolving architecture, and the lead's roleSaint TeamLead Conf 20182,183 views47 likes#Leadership#Architecture#Career