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Tech Lead Journal

Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.

Why Senior Engineers Struggle as Tech Leads: The 3 Mindset Shifts That Fix It

64 hours 12 mins; March 30, 2026

Design the System, Not the Hero: Building Trust in the AI Era

63 hours 45 mins; March 16, 2026

Why Coding Alone Is No Longer Enough: Become A Product-Minded Engineer

62 hours 35 mins; March 09, 2026

The MCP Security Risks You Can't Afford to Ignore

72 hours 19 mins; March 02, 2026

Stop Telling Yourself You're Bad at “People Stuff”

74 hours 42 mins; February 23, 2026

Why Your Platform Engineering Is Failing (And How to Fix It)

72 hours 21 mins; February 16, 2026

Agnes AI: Southeast Asia's Answer to ChatGPT (And 20x Cheaper)

65 hours 33 mins; February 02, 2026

Your Home Is Launching Cyber Attacks (And You Don't Know It)

93 hours 18 mins; January 26, 2026

Gene Kim: How Vibe Coding Solved What I Couldn't in 13 YEARS

64 hours 23 mins; January 19, 2026

CTO Coach: Why Tech Companies are Really Laying Off Developers (It’s Not Just AI)

62 hours 10 mins; January 12, 2026

#242 - The End of Traditional Management: Reimagining Work for AI-First Organization - Jurgen Appelo

78 hours 0 mins; December 08, 2025

#241 - Your Code as a Crime Scene: The Psychology Behind Software Quality - Adam Tornhill

61 hours 51 mins; December 01, 2025

#240 - AI as Your Thought Partner: Break Boundaries & Do What You Never Could Before - Greg Shove

66 hours 31 mins; November 24, 2025

#239 - Taming Your Technical Debt: Mastering the Trade-Off Problem - Andrew Brown

66 hours 29 mins; November 17, 2025

#238 - AI is Smart Until It's Dumb: Why LLM Will Fail When You Least Expect It - Emmanuel Maggiori

76 hours 25 mins; November 10, 2025

#237 - Tackling AI and Modern Complexity with Deming's System of Profound Knowledge - John Willis

69 hours 53 mins; November 03, 2025

#236 - From Figma to Code: The Rise of Design Engineers (And Why It Matters Now) - Honey Mittal

84 hours 51 mins; October 27, 2025

#235 - From AI Chaos to Clarity: Building Situational Awareness with Wardley Mapping - Simon Wardley

70 hours 52 mins; October 13, 2025

#234 - Building for Reliability: Durable Execution & Insights from Temporal's Report - Preeti Somal

62 hours 11 mins; October 06, 2025

#233 - Data Beats Hype: Measuring Your AI Adoption Impact - Laura Tacho

67 hours 1 min; September 29, 2025

#232 - Hibernate Creator on Why Developers Hate ORM (And How We're Fixing It) - Gavin King

95 hours 21 mins; September 22, 2025

#231 - Faster Code Reviews, Faster Code Shipping with Stacked PRs - Greg Foster

60 hours 57 mins; September 01, 2025

#230 - Technical Coaching in the Age of AI with Samman (Ensemble) - Emily Bache

57 mins; August 25, 2025

#229 - The Management System for High-Performing Engineering Organizations - Michi Kono

61 hours 4 mins; August 18, 2025

#228 - Leading Transformational Engineering Teams with Craft in the AI Era - Mohan Krishnan

69 hours 57 mins; August 11, 2025

#227 - Infrastructure as Code: Delivering Dynamic Systems for the Cloud Age - Kief Morris

56 mins; August 04, 2025

#226 - Ex-Google Duplex Eng Lead on Disrupting $2B Clinical Trials with AI - Patrick Leung

54 mins; July 28, 2025

#225 - Driving Engineering Excellence with Platform Engineering and IDP - Ganesh Datta

61 hours 17 mins; July 21, 2025

#224 - Move Fast, Break Silos: Leadership for Interdisciplinary Teams - Klaus Breyer

64 hours 14 mins; July 14, 2025

#223 - The Software Engineer Identity Crisis in the AI-Driven Future - Annie Vella

67 hours 13 mins; July 07, 2025

#222 - Closing the Knowledge Gap in Your Legacy Code with AI - Omer Rosenbaum

60 hours 55 mins; June 30, 2025

#221 - Writing for Developers: How to Create Content People Read and Share - Piotr Sarna

51 mins; June 23, 2025

#220 - From Hibernate to Quarkus: Modernizing Java for Cloud-Native - Sanne Grinovero

75 hours 6 mins; June 16, 2025

#219 - Why Learning Systems Thinking is Essential in Tech - Diana Montalion

76 hours 8 mins; June 09, 2025

#218 - The PRFAQ Framework: Amazon's Secret to Successful Innovations - Marcelo Calbucci

53 mins; May 26, 2025

#217 - Impact Intelligence: Deliver Real Business Impact from Your Initiatives - Sriram Narayan

61 hours 27 mins; May 19, 2025

#216 - Practical Data Privacy: Enhancing Privacy and Security in Your Application - Katharine Jarmul

66 hours 57 mins; May 12, 2025

#215 - The Async First Playbook: Build Effective and Inclusive Teams with Less Meetings - Sumeet Moghe

63 hours 3 mins; May 05, 2025

#214 - Beyond CI/CD: Continuous Deployment Explained - Valentina Servile

59 mins; April 28, 2025

#213 - Moldable Development: Explain Systems & Make Better Software Decisions - Tudor Girba

67 hours 13 mins; April 14, 2025

#212 - The Architect's Paradox: Embracing Uncertainty in Software Architecture - Barry O'Reilly

61 hours 3 mins; April 07, 2025

#211 - Back to the Future: Lessons from My 42-Year Career in Tech - Paula Paul

59 mins; March 31, 2025

#210 - Creator of WireMock: Building a Successful Open Source Project and The Art of API Mocking - Tom Akehurst

52 mins; March 24, 2025

#209 - How I Retired Early in Tech: My Journey to Financial Independence - Kristine Howard

62 hours 43 mins; March 17, 2025

#208 - Navigating Tech Leadership Transitions: From Engineer to Executive - Norman Noble

48 mins; March 03, 2025

#207 - The Art of Storytelling: Effective Communication and Data Visualization - Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

66 hours 15 mins; February 24, 2025

#206 - The Fundamentals and Future of DevOps and Software Delivery - Yevgeniy Brikman

82 hours 30 mins; February 17, 2025

#205 - Measuring Code Quality in the Age of GenAI - Matt Van Itallie

58 mins; February 10, 2025

#204 - Stop Inflicting Daily Standups and Computer Science Riddles on Your Devs - David Guttman

61 hours 38 mins; February 03, 2025

#203 - Building Effective and Thriving Machine Learning Teams - David Tan & Dave Colls

58 mins; January 27, 2025

#202 - The Rise of AI in Shaping the Future of Work - André Neubauer

53 mins; January 20, 2025

#201 - Building Evolutionary Architectures: Automated Software Governance - Rebecca Parsons

56 mins; January 13, 2025

#200 - Become a Great Engineering Leader - James Stanier

67 hours 22 mins; November 25, 2024

#199 - Think Like an Engineer, Talk Like an Executive, and Go Beyond Your Limits - Pramoda Vyasarao

61 hours 54 mins; November 18, 2024

#198 - Better Software Faster: Measure & Improve Developer Productivity with DX Core 4 - Laura Tacho

58 mins; November 11, 2024

#197 - Beyond Input & Output: Building Outcome-Oriented Engineering Teams - Balki Kodarapu

55 mins; November 04, 2024

#196 - Unbundling the Enterprise: the Power of APIs, Optionality, and the Science of Happy Accidents - Stephen Fishman and Matt McLarty

55 mins; October 21, 2024

#195 - Working Effectively with Legacy Code and AI Coding Assistant - Michael Feathers

56 mins; October 14, 2024

#194 - Building Loved Products: The Tech Product Marketing Fundamentals - Martina Lauchengco

59 mins; October 07, 2024

#193 - The Path to Becoming a Great Engineer: Insights from a CTO Perspective - Milan Milanović

54 mins; September 30, 2024

#192 - Brain Refactoring: Overcoming Your Common Bugs & Obstacles in Tech Career - Dagna Bieda

60 hours 13 mins; September 23, 2024

#191 - State of Developer Experience 2024: Uncovering the Disconnect - Andrew Boyagi

54 mins; September 16, 2024

#190 - The Staff+ Engineer’s Journey: Unlocking the Secrets of Staff+ Impact - Thiago Ghisi

62 hours 56 mins; September 09, 2024

#189 - The Art of Awesome Code Reviews - Michaela Greiler

61 hours 41 mins; September 02, 2024

#188 - Balancing Coupling in Software Design: Principles for Architecting Modular Software Systems - Vladik Khononov

70 hours 41 mins; August 26, 2024

#187 - The Tao of Microservices - Richard Rodger

59 mins; August 12, 2024

#186 - The Amazing CTO's Missing Manual: Guide to Managing Tech Teams - Stephan Schmidt

51 mins; August 05, 2024

#185 - The Transformed Organization: A Blueprint for Moving to the Product Operating Model - Chris Jones

59 mins; July 29, 2024

#184 - Contract Testing Essentials: A Comprehensive Guide - Lewis Prescott

53 mins; July 22, 2024

#183 - Mastering Team Leadership by Embracing Conflicts and Building Resilience - Hari Haralambiev

62 hours 22 mins; July 15, 2024

#182 - Building a Quality-Driven Culture: Enhancing Quality Practices Using QPAM - Janet Gregory & Selena Delesie

54 mins; July 08, 2024

#181 - Engineer Your Career and Your Life: Timeless Career Advice and the Power of Small Bets - Louie Bacaj

62 hours 51 mins; July 01, 2024

#180 - Becoming a Distinguished Engineer, Public Speaking, and Early Retirement - Kelsey Hightower

60 hours 30 mins; June 24, 2024

#179 - Bottlenecks of Scaleups - Tim Cochran & Kennedy Collins

51 mins; June 17, 2024

#178 - Leveling Up Through Coding Challenges, Real-World Projects, and Personal Brand - John Crickett

52 mins; June 10, 2024

#177 - Simple Object-Oriented Design: Principles for Writing Clean & Maintainable Software - Mauricio Aniche

53 mins; June 03, 2024

#176 - Acing the System Design Interview - Zhiyong Tan

48 mins; May 27, 2024

#175 - How to Solve Real-World Data Analysis Problems - David Asboth

57 mins; May 20, 2024

#174 - The Hard Truths of Software Development and How to Succeed - Venkat Subramaniam

58 mins; May 13, 2024

#173 - Flow Engineering: Collaborative Mapping for Effective Action at Scale - Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis

58 mins; May 06, 2024

#172 - The Quality Mindset with Holistic and Risk-Based Testing Strategies - Mark Winteringham

57 mins; April 29, 2024

#171 - The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy and Adaptive Ethics - Mark Schwartz

59 mins; April 22, 2024

#170 - Essential Communication Patterns for Developers and Technical Leaders - Jacqui Read

59 mins; April 08, 2024

#169 - User Experience Design: The Key to Creating a Sustainable Business Moat - Satyam Kantamneni

50 mins; April 01, 2024

#168 - Serverless as a Game Changer - Joseph Emison

60 hours 57 mins; March 25, 2024

#167 - Uncovering Blind Spots: How Great Leaders Unleash Great Performance - Marisa Murray

53 mins; March 18, 2024

#166 - The Kanban Guide You Should Know About - Colleen Johnson

48 mins; March 11, 2024

#165 - Learning to Program in the Era of Generative AI - Leo Porter & Daniel Zingaro

64 hours 6 mins; March 04, 2024

#164 - Lead Developer Career Guide - Shelley Benhoff

46 mins; February 26, 2024

#163 - Becoming an Intentional Engineer and Tech Leader - Jeff Perry

51 mins; February 19, 2024

#162 - Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High-Growth Organizations - Andrew Bartlow

59 mins; February 12, 2024

#161 - The 7 Dimensions of Highly Creative Programmers - Wouter Groeneveld

52 mins; February 05, 2024

#160 - Deliver Better Results: How to Level Up Your Value Delivery System - Gil Broza

55 mins; January 29, 2024

#159 - Leveling Up Your Code Reviews from 'Good Enough' to Great - Adrienne Tacke

72 hours 0 mins; January 22, 2024

[Best of 2023] #115 - Senior Engineering Leadership & Scaling Engineering Teams - Manoj Awasthi

18 mins; January 18, 2024

[Best of 2023] #139 - A Developer's Guide to Effective Software Testing - Mauricio Aniche

18 mins; January 15, 2024

[Best of 2023] #134 - A Developer-Centric Approach to Measuring and Improving Productivity - Margaret-Anne Storey & Abi Noda

20 mins; January 11, 2024

[Best of 2023] #112 - Developer Productivity and Experience - Abi Noda

18 mins; January 08, 2024

[Best of 2023] #125 - Patterns for API Design - Daniel Luebke

17 mins; January 04, 2024

#158 - Sustainable Engineering Lessons From Scaling Up Wise - Balazs Barna

49 mins; January 01, 2024

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