Developer experience

Apr 30, 2026

The 3 Words That Secretly Drive Developer Productivity & Motivation • Yanina Ledovaya • GOTO 2025

Cognitive psychologist Yanina Ledovaya explains how to boost developer productivity and satisfaction by focusing on three universal human needs from Self-Determination Theory: Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness. This talk delves into how these psychological drivers underpin developer motivation, influence the adoption of AI tools, and provide a practical framework for managers to create more effective and engaging work environments.

Apr 28, 2026

Building your own software factory — Eric Zakariasson, Cursor

Eric Zakariasson from Cursor explains the shift from single-agent pair programming to managing a multi-agent "software factory". He outlines the practical steps required, from establishing a well-structured codebase with guardrails to adopting a managerial mindset that focuses on automation, asynchronous work, and scaling agent fleets to increase software development throughput and consistency.

Apr 08, 2026

Platforms for Humans and Machines: Engineering for the Age of Agents — Juan Herreros Elorza

This talk by Juan Herreros Elorza explores how to design internal developer platforms for a future where AI coding agents are first-class users. It argues that the same best practices that make platforms accessible to humans—self-service interfaces, well-defined APIs, local-first workflows, and rich observability—are now critical prerequisites for agents to autonomously build, debug, and ship software. The session provides concrete principles for platform design, discusses how to manage AI-assisted contributions, and emphasizes the need to measure the impact of these changes on developer productivity and system reliability.

Feb 11, 2026

Security & DevEx: Can We Have Both? • Abby Bangser, Adrian Mouat & Holly Cummins • GOTO 2025

In this panel discussion, Holly Cummins, Abby Bangser, and Adrian Mouat explore the inherent conflict between security and developer experience. They argue that traditional security, often driven by fear and restrictive policies, can lead to 'Shadow IT' and greater insecurity. The solution proposed is a platform engineering approach, which centralizes security expertise to provide secure defaults, infrastructure guardrails, and a clear shared responsibility model, thus enabling development teams to deliver value quickly and safely without needing to become security experts themselves.

Feb 03, 2026

Quarkus in Action • Martin Stefanko, Jan Martiska & Holly Cummins

Authors Martin Štefanko and Jan Martiška discuss their book "Quarkus in Action," detailing the framework's powerful developer experience, the trade-offs between JVM and native compilation, and its cloud-native capabilities. They explore the book's structure, which guides readers through building a complex microservices application to showcase over 29 different extensions, from REST and gRPC to reactive messaging and cloud deployment.

Jan 23, 2026

Build Hour: Apps in ChatGPT

Learn how to design, build, and enhance real-time, multi-player applications within ChatGPT using the Apps SDK and Codex. This guide covers the core architecture, an AI-first development workflow, and best practices for creating valuable user experiences.