Product Engineering

Presenters Murtuza J Merchant Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Stablecoins: The Cloud-Native Payment Infrastructure Revolution 🚀 Are you tired of the slow, expensive, and clunky traditional payment systems? Imagine sending money from London to Jakarta not in two to five business days with fees between $20 and $40, but in under 5 seconds for less than a tenth of a cent. This isn’t a futuristic dream; it’s the reality stablecoins offer today, and they’re rapidly becoming the first cloud-native payment infrastructure. ...

Presenters Ryan Vila Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Migrations Gone Wild? How Feature Flags Turn Risk into Controlled Experiments 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the sheer terror of a big, risky migration project? You know, the kind where you hold your breath and pray everything goes smoothly? Well, what if I told you there’s a way to transform these high-stakes events into calculated, controlled experiments? Ryan Vila, the Harness Feature Management Experimentation Advisory Director, recently shared some brilliant insights on how feature flags can be your secret weapon for smoother cloud migrations and re-platforming efforts. Let’s dive in! ...

Presenters Matt Pocock Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Why Software Fundamentals are Your Superpower in the Age of AI Do you feel like your hard-earned engineering skills are losing their value in a world dominated by LLMs? Matt Pocock has a comforting, yet provocative message for you: software fundamentals matter now more than they ever have. While many believe we are entering a specs-to-code era where we can simply ignore the implementation, the reality is much messier. If you treat code as a disposable byproduct, you fall into the trap of vibe coding. You run the compiler, get garbage, run it again, and get even worse garbage. ...

Presenters Kitaborovskis Sizzy Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Hey, tech enthusiasts and productivity hackers! Ever feel like you’re wrestling with your to-do list more than actually doing things? You’re definitely not alone. Our speaker, K, recently celebrated his 34th birthday by sharing his incredible, decades-long journey through the chaotic, frustrating, and ultimately inspiring world of productivity and personal AI agents. Get ready for a wild ride! The Relentless Pursuit of Productivity: A Personal Odyssey 🚀 K’s quest began at the tender age of 10, when he created his very first to-do list in a notebook. Since then, he has been in a constant struggle to conquer productivity, always feeling dissatisfied with existing solutions. “Is anyone else forever unhappy with to-do apps?” he asked, and a resounding chorus of agreement confirmed his shared pain. From the early days of Todoist and similar apps, K felt a deep need for something more. ...

Presenters Abhishek Fatehpuria Source Product School podcast From Intern to VP: The Robinhood Playbook for Dominating the Future of Finance 🚀 What does it take to grow from a mobile-only trading app into a global financial powerhouse with a $62 billion market cap? In a recent masterclass on the Product Podcast, Abhishek Fatehpuria, Vice President of Product at Robinhood, shared the internal strategies driving the company’s record $4.5 billion revenue in 2025. ...