Product Engineering

Presenters Sander Boumeester Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Leveling Up Developer Experience: Building a Thriving Internal Developer Portal at Adyen 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever wondered how global financial tech giants like Adyen keep their development engine humming with speed and quality? Sander Boumeester, an engineer at Adyen for the past two and a half years, shared some incredible insights into their journey of transforming their internal developer portal, aptly named “Launchpad,” from a little-used tool to a vital hub for over a thousand developers. ...

Presenters Viktor Peterson Source InfoQ podcast The S-bomb Revolution: Why Your Software Ingredients Matter More Than Ever 🚀🌐 In the world of mobile application security, good enough is simply a vulnerability. Viktor Peterson, a seasoned entrepreneur and co-chair of a CISA working group, recently sat down with Olimpio Pope to discuss the shifting landscape of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs). What started as a niche security practice is rapidly becoming the global standard for software transparency. ...

Presenters Carlos González de Villaumbrosia David Kaufman Source Product School podcast 🚀 The Death of the Click: How TikTok is Redefining Social Commerce In a world where attention is the most valuable currency, the distance between discovery and purchase is the ultimate battleground. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia recently sat down with David Kaufman, VP of Product at TikTok, to dissect how the platform is transforming from a short-form video app into a full-scale e-commerce powerhouse. With over 200 million monthly active users in the US alone, TikTok isn’t just showing you products—it’s building an entire end-to-end infrastructure to sell them. ...

Presenters David Heinemeier Hansson Source The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast The AI Revolution: Craft, Aesthetics, and the Future of Software Engineering with DHH 🚀 The tech world is buzzing with the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence, and who better to dissect its impact than David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37signals? In a recent candid conversation, DHH shared his evolving perspective on AI, emphasizing that his core philosophy hasn’t changed, but the tools have finally caught up to enable truly impactful work. This isn’t just about faster coding; it’s about a fundamental shift in how we approach software development, a renewed focus on craft, and the enduring importance of taste and aesthetics. ...

Presenters Thomas Betts Adi Polak Source InfoQ podcast Beyond Prompt Engineering: Mastering Context Engineering for AI at Scale 🚀 In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven development, the buzzword prompt engineering is starting to feel a bit like yesterday’s news. As we move from simple chatbot interactions to complex, agentic workflows, the real secret sauce is context engineering. I sat down with Adi Polak, Director at Confluent and author of Scaling Machine Learning with Spark, to discuss how we can move beyond basic prompting to build sophisticated, stateful AI systems that actually get work done. ...