Schedule itinerary

Our monorepo CI took 40 minutes on a good day. This talk walks through how we cut it to 6 minutes with content-addressed caching, remote execution, and a test-selection model — including the two migrations that failed first. You'll leave with a decision framework for which incremental-build investments pay off at which repo sizes, and the graphs to convince your platform team. Updated: now includes 2026 benchmark data. This session now includes a live demo of remote build caching.

Treating every existing API surface as an agent tool: the adapter patterns, the auth problems, and what breaks at scale when agents call APIs designed for humans. Includes a rubric for deciding which endpoints to expose and which to wrap.

Ten years of developer workflow change compressed into forty-five minutes: what actually moved the needle, what was fashion, and where the next decade of leverage is hiding. A data-heavy look at build systems, editors, CI, and the arrival of agents that write and review code alongside us.

Coverage numbers say a line ran, not that a feature works. A practical tour of functionality-level browser testing and what it catches that unit tests never will, with a migration plan for suites that are already too slow.

Our monorepo CI took 40 minutes on a good day. This talk walks through how we cut it to 6 minutes with content-addressed caching, remote execution, and a test-selection model — including the two migrations that failed first. You'll leave with a decision framework for which incremental-build investments pay off at which repo sizes, and the graphs to convince your platform team.

What team structure, rituals, and career ladders look like when a meaningful share of the work is done by agents rather than people. Two reorgs, one of which was a mistake, described honestly.

Median build time is the number people quote; p99 is the number that ruins afternoons. How we found the tail, what caused it (spoiler: not the compiler), and the four changes that halved it.

A hands-on two-hour workshop building a minimal remote build execution service: content-addressed storage, action caching, and a worker pool. Bring a laptop with Docker installed.

Internal platforms fail politely: nobody complains, everybody routes around them. A field guide to platform adoption metrics, paved-road design, and the deprecations that make a platform credible.

Measured throughput changes across a large engineering org after AI tooling rollout — what moved, what did not, and which measurements were misleading enough that we stopped reporting them.

A frank panel on enterprise agent deployments: governance, budgeting, evaluation, and the organisational antibodies that kill promising pilots. Audience questions encouraged and unfiltered.