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Issue 102: Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever, Beyond The Vibe: Code Quality First, Structured Concurrency, Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

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1. “"Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever" — Matt Pocock” from AI Engineer Europe 2026

Conference ⸱ +407k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 26s

tldw: AI coding tools are overhyped and powerful at the same time. Used well they're extraordinary; used badly they'll bury you in tech debt faster than any human team could. After 18 months teaching developers to build with AI agents, Matt Pocock, creator of Total TypeScript, has watched the same patterns emerge: the devs who succeed are the ones who fall back on engineering fundamentals. In this talk he walks through the iterative process his students use to ship high-quality apps with agent swarms and explains why decades-old principles like ubiquitous language, vertical slices, TDD and deep modules now matter more than ever.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v4F1gFy-hqg

2. “MCP = Mega Context Problem - Matt Carey” from AI Engineer Europe 2026

Conference ⸱ +17k views ⸱ Apr 25, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 42s

tldw: The best MCP server is the one you didn't have to build. Cloudflare's REST OpenAPI spec is over 2.3 million tokens, so when teams started building MCP servers they cherry-picked endpoints and shipped a separate service covering a fraction of the API. Matt Carey, AI Engineer on the Agents team at Cloudflare, argues we got it all wrong: the context limit is an agent problem, not an MCP problem. In this talk he walks through techniques the team has been exploring like code mode and tool search to expose complete APIs to agents through MCP, plus work on the MCP TypeScript SDK to make stateless servers the default.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUvGOuotE

3. “Jakub Andrzejewski, Evan You - Panel: Beyond The Vibe: Code Quality First” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026

Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Apr 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 50m 00s

tldw: This Vue.js Amsterdam 2026 panel digs into modern frontend engineering, the tradeoffs developers face today and what shifts when AI enters the mainstream. Jakub Andrzejewski, Senior Developer Advocate at Vue Storefront, joins Vue creator Evan You, Debbie O'Brien, Elise Patrikainen and Nuxt Head of Framework Daniel Roe to focus on what software quality really means in the age of AI. They tackle how to keep code maintainable when vibes alone aren't enough.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=L5aJVG5g7k0

4. “GeeCON 2025: Konrad Szałkowski - Organizing chaos - Structured Concurrency” from GeeCON 2025

Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 49m 46s

tldw: When there's order in our world it's much easier to navigate, and programmers rediscover this truth every few years. Java 21 gave us virtual threads with the slogan 'create, start, forget', but we all know what happens in a kids' room after a birthday party: chaos. Konrad Szałkowski, a frequent speaker on distributed systems and concurrency, walks through Structured Concurrency, the brand-new API designed to organize the mess. He explains why it works and why it was created, then shows the code in action.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIhA8UEBXx4

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5. “Anthropic Mythos: Hype, reality and the actual security implications” from ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast

Podcast ⸱ Apr 30, 2026 ⸱ 00h 48m 50s

tldl: Anthropic Mythos drew huge attention when it launched in mid-April this year, framed as an unprecedented threat to global software. But look closely and it starts to feel like an effective product launch as much as a story about the real security risks of today's AI models. In this episode, new host Nate Schutta is joined by Chris Kramer to discuss Anthropic Mythos and Project Glasswing, unpacking what's hype and what software developers, security professionals or other technologists should actually pay attention to.

https://thoughtworks.libsyn.com/anthropic-mythos-hype-reality-and-the-actual-security-implications

6. “AI Is Changing Data Engineering Fast” from Data Engineering Central Podcast

Podcast ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 56m 58s

tldl: The hosts dig into uncomfortable truths: AI can write code but cannot replace thinking, while most engineers focus too much on tools and not enough on problem-solving or system design.

https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/ai-is-changing-data-engineering-fast

7. “Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025 and a Hint for 2026 - James Kettle - ASW #380” from Application Security Weekly

Podcast ⸱ Apr 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 55s

tldl: PortSwigger's list of web hacking techniques is a long-running celebration of curiosity and research from the web hacking community. James Kettle, Director of Research at PortSwigger, shares his thoughts on the 2025 entries and how he expects LLMs and agents to reshape next year's list. He also gives a peek into his own blackbox research with LLMs, hinting at what he'll be presenting at Black Hat USA this summer.

https://aswaudio.libsyn.com/top-10-web-hacking-techniques-of-2025-and-a-hint-for-2026-james-kettle-asw-380

8. “Most Data Teams Are Doing It Wrong” from Data Engineering Central Podcast

Podcast ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 49s

tldl: Most data teams think they're building value. In reality, they've become ticket queues. In this episode Chris Gambill, a veteran of Fortune 500 data teams, digs into what separates senior engineers from true strategic operators, the biggest early-career mistakes, Databricks vs Snowflake without the marketing hype and why the classic problems that have plagued data teams for decades still haven't gone away.

https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/most-data-teams-are-doing-it-wrong

9. “998: How to Fix Vibe Coding” from Syntax

Podcast ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 44m 35s

tldl: Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski talk about making AI coding more reliable using deterministic tools like fallow, knip, ESLint, StyleLint and Sentry. They cover code quality analysis, linting strategies, headless browsers, task workflows and how to enforce better patterns so AI stops guessing and starts producing maintainable, predictable code.

https://syntax.fm/998

📆 New talks

Here's the complete list of all the talks published since the last issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by number of views for your convenience.

AI Engineer Europe 2026 (16), AIE Europe 2026 Keynotes (1), AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026 (1), AWS Life Sciences Symposium 2026 (1), Beam College 2026 (3), Code BEAM Europe 2025 (1), Conf42 Cloud 2026 (28), Conference Talks 2026 (7), DDD Europe 2025 (1), Devoxx Poland 2024 (4), GOTO 2026 (2), GOTO Copenhagen 2025 (1), GOTO Serverless Bangalore 2025 (1), GeeCON 2025 (3), InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 (1), JavaOne 2026 (3), KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (9), Meeting C++ 2025 (1), On Rails Podcast (1), Spring I/O 2026 (3), Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 (7), YOW! 2025 (2), wroc_love.rb 2026 (13)

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🗄️ More this week, by category

This issue's talks, sorted by view count and organized by topic.

AI Engineering

  1. “"Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever" — Matt Pocock” from AI Engineer Europe 2026 — Conference ⸱ +407k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 18m 26s

  2. “Full Walkthrough: Workflow for AI Coding — Matt Pocock” from AI Engineer Europe 2026 — Conference ⸱ +213k views ⸱ Apr 24, 2026 ⸱ 01h 36m 30s

  3. “Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub” from AI Engineer Europe 2026 — Conference ⸱ +31k views ⸱ Apr 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 17m 43s

→ See 29 more AI Engineering talks on Tech Talks Weekly Plus

AWS

  1. “2026 AWS Life Sciences Symposium Keynote | AWS Events” from AWS Life Sciences Symposium 2026 — Conference ⸱ +900 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 01h 48m 50s

  2. “AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026 - Keynote” from AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026 — Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Apr 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 18s

  3. “Keep Calm & Run on AWS: Compliance While Keeping Your Stack | Dmytro Hlotenko | Conf42 Cloud 2026” from Conf42 Cloud 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 53m 16s

Angular

  1. “Unleashing the power of Angular • Loïc Magnette • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 56s

BEAM

  1. “Update from the Elixir Core Team - Andrea Leopardi | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025 — Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Apr 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 14m 48s

  2. “Beam College 2026 - Apache Beam: Powering the Future of Event-Driven Agents at Scale” from Beam College 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 05s

  3. “Beam College 2026 - Introducing Managed IO, the New Era of Beam Connectors” from Beam College 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 22s

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C++

  1. “Binary Parsing, C++23 Style - Hari Prasad Manoharan - Meeting C++ 2025” from Meeting C++ 2025 — Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 41m 35s

Data Engineering

  1. “Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann” — Conference ⸱ +206k views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 01h 25m 49s

  2. “Kafka for Architects • Ekaterina Gorshkova & Viktor Gamov • GOTO 2026” from GOTO 2026 — Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 13s

  3. “Beam College 2026 - Apache Beam: Powering the Future of Event-Driven Agents at Scale” from Beam College 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 05s

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Data Science / Machine Learning

  1. “Nicolò Rebughini - Accidentally building a neural network - wroc_love.rb 2026” from wroc_love.rb 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 38m 28s

Databases

  1. “Database Evolution: Partitioning and Indexing | Purushotham Jinka | Conf42 Cloud 2026” from Conf42 Cloud 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 52s

DevOps

  1. “DNS Tracing & Metrics Via eBPF in OpenTelemetry- Endre Sara, Causely & Nikola Grcevski, Grafana Labs” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 — Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Apr 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 32m 55s

  2. “Beyond Dashboards: Deep-Dive Network Observability with eBPF | Uudit Misra | Conf42 Cloud 2026” from Conf42 Cloud 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 16m 22s

Elixir

  1. “Update from the Elixir Core Team - Andrea Leopardi | Code BEAM Europe 2025” from Code BEAM Europe 2025 — Conference ⸱ +400 views ⸱ Apr 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 14m 48s

Java

  1. “Module Adoption? JDK Build Tool? Lombok? Backwards Compatibility? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne'26” from JavaOne 2026 — Conference ⸱ +9k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 08s

  2. “Reflecting on HAT: A Project Babylon Case Study” from JavaOne 2026 — Conference ⸱ +6k views ⸱ Apr 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 43m 09s

  3. “Bootiful Spring Boot 4 by Josh Long @ Spring I/O 2026” from Spring I/O 2026 — Conference ⸱ +3k views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 42m 32s

→ See 5 more Java talks on Tech Talks Weekly Plus

Kubernetes

  1. “Keynote: The Future of Cloud Native Is… Agentic - Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io (ASL)” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 — Conference ⸱ +300 views ⸱ Apr 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 15m 38s

  2. “AI as a Force Multiplier for Cloud Native Enterprise Development | Dreema Patel | Conf42 Cloud 2026” from Conf42 Cloud 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 11m 35s

  3. “Keynote: The Cloud Native Feedback Loop: How End Users and Developers Drive CNCF Proj... Panel (ASL)” from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 26, 2026 ⸱ 00h 13m 36s

Misc

  1. “Stablecoins as Cloud-Native Payment Infrastructure | Murtuza J Merchant | Conf42 Cloud 2026” from Conf42 Cloud 2026 — Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 22m 00s

  2. “Spec-Driven Dev Is Back. But Not How You Think • Daniel Terhorst-North & Gojko Adzic • GOTO 2026” from GOTO 2026 — Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Apr 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 03s

  3. “Migration from On-Prem Messaging System to The Cloud | Ran Tao | Conf42 Cloud 2026” from Conf42 Cloud 2026 — Conference ⸱ +2k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 59s

→ See 37 more Misc talks on Tech Talks Weekly Plus

React

  1. “Signals vs React Hooks: Battle for Clean Code • Henry Lagarde, Estelle Thou • Devoxx Poland 2024” from Devoxx Poland 2024 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 23m 30s

Ruby / Rails

  1. “Ismael Celis - Event Sourcing and Actor model in Ruby - wroc_love.rb 2026” from wroc_love.rb 2026 — Conference ⸱ +200 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 52m 57s

  2. “Ryan Townsend - No-build Utopia: Modern UX with Rails & Web Standards - wroc_love.rb 2026” from wroc_love.rb 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 57m 03s

  3. “Charles Nutter - JRuby: Professional-Grade Ruby - wroc_love.rb 2026” from wroc_love.rb 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 37m 44s

→ See 4 more Ruby / Rails talks on Tech Talks Weekly Plus

Security

  1. “Ramona Schwering Vue tiful Defense Let's draw Security” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 09s

  2. “Securing Multi-Cloud APIs Against Quantum Threats | Rajasingh Gandhi Ramdas | Conf42 Cloud 2026” from Conf42 Cloud 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 10m 27s

  3. “Secure your cloud automation | Leo Visser | Conf42 Cloud 2026” from Conf42 Cloud 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 29s

Software Architecture

  1. “Module Adoption? JDK Build Tool? Lombok? Backwards Compatibility? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne'26” from JavaOne 2026 — Conference ⸱ +9k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 58m 08s

  2. “Kafka for Architects • Ekaterina Gorshkova & Viktor Gamov • GOTO 2026” from GOTO 2026 — Conference ⸱ +1k views ⸱ Apr 23, 2026 ⸱ 00h 28m 13s

  3. “Davy Landman - Domain driven redesign - DDD Europe 2025” from DDD Europe 2025 — Conference ⸱ +500 views ⸱ Apr 27, 2026 ⸱ 00h 47m 19s

→ See 3 more Software Architecture talks on Tech Talks Weekly Plus

Vue

  1. “Jakub Andrzejewski Dungeon Mastering Your Vue App From Chaos to Order” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 — Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Apr 24, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 36s

  2. “Thorsten Seyschab - Vue Think You Know It All The Ultimate Vue Live Quiz” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 — Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 22s

  3. “Ramona Schwering Vue tiful Defense Let's draw Security” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 — Conference ⸱ <100 views ⸱ Apr 29, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 09s

Web / Frontend

  1. “Modernizing Java UIs Without JavaScript: Escape the Multi-Stack Trap” from JavaOne 2026 — Conference ⸱ +8k views ⸱ Apr 28, 2026 ⸱ 00h 39m 30s

  2. “Jakub Andrzejewski Dungeon Mastering Your Vue App From Chaos to Order” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 — Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Apr 24, 2026 ⸱ 00h 31m 36s

  3. “Thorsten Seyschab - Vue Think You Know It All The Ultimate Vue Live Quiz” from Vuejs Amsterdam 2026 — Conference ⸱ +100 views ⸱ Apr 22, 2026 ⸱ 00h 33m 22s

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