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Randy Shoup doubled engineering productivity at eBay. The culture didn't move an inch. That's the DevEx track at code.talks in one sentence: the tools are the easy part. 6 highlights, 6 different angles on what actually makes developers faster. Randy Shoup (ex eBay, Google): "We Doubled Engineering Productivity at eBay, but Couldn't Change the Culture." The numbers went up. The org didn't follow. What he'd do differently. Nick Tune and Charles Desneuf (Payfit): "Lessons learned building a harness to rediscover and replace a legacy system." Agents against a system nobody fully understood anymore. Tudor Girba (feenk): "Understanding at machine speed with thousands of contextual tools." Reading a system should not take longer than changing it. Martin Kalsow (OTTO): "AI im SDLC: von der Idee bis zum Freitags-Deployment ohne Angst." How OTTO uses AI along the whole lifecycle, including the part where you deploy on a Friday. Tim Ottinger (LexisNexis): "Dev Enablement: Writing Deliverable Code." Getting working software past the quality gates and into production. That's 6 of 122 talks. Full agenda drops soon. 4-5 November, Kinopolis Hamburg. Smart Decision ticket from 1 October: 649 € instead of 799 €. Teams pay 599 € per person. www.codetalks.com #codetalks #codetalks2026 #devex

Something Youtube cant deliver ;) New this year at code.talks: the Meet the Speaker Area. Conferences exist so people can actually meet. At most conferences speakers simply disappear after they have been on stage. We want to change that thats why we created a new area where you can connect with the speaker or simply ask him/her anything that you love to ask. They're up for it. Talk about their session, your setup or something else entirely. Proper nerding out, in person. 4-5 November, Kinopolis Hamburg. Smart Decision ticket: 649 € instead of 799 €, only until 15 October. www.codetalks.com #codetalks #codetalks2026 #developerconference

The talks are why you come. This is why you stay until they turn the lights off. Here's what else is waiting at code.talks on 4-5 November: A party that deserves the name. Day 1, 6 pm, at the Dock. There's a surprise concert (small hint: it gets rockier this year) and the drinks are on us. Our kicker contest. It happens every year, and this time it's right on site. Sign-up opens soon, so start recruiting your second player. A gaming area, for the moments when your head is full. A meet and greet area with the speakers. Bring your actual use case and talk it through with the people who flew in from around the world. That's the part YouTube can't give you. Food all day. Plus popcorn, nachos and drinks for free, because we're in a cinema and it would be weird not to. And a young talent session for software engineering students, built together with InnoGames. Your ticket covers all of it. We'll show you each of these over the next weeks. Final Countdown ticket right now: 699 € instead of 799 €. www.codetalks.com #codetalks #codetalks2026 #developerconference

The best TDD practitioners Emily Bache knows have stopped writing code by hand. So what's left of software craft when agents do the typing? 6 people on the code.talks stage have an answer. They don't agree with each other, which is the point. Emily Bache: "Coding is Dead! Long Live Engineering!" What an engineering process looks like when AI writes the code, from someone who has taught TDD for years. Kevlin Henney: "Abstraction? You Keep Using that Word." Everyone says abstraction matters. Almost nobody can define it. Kevlin can. Daniel Terhorst-North: "Am I holding this right?" The man who gave us BDD on why Claude is a mercenary contractor and test-first is the new TDD. Russell Miles: "A New Literacy: Thinking Clearly While AI Writes the Code." The scarce skill is no longer typing. It's thinking about systems, intent and feedback loops. Tim Ottinger (LexisNexis): "Dev Enablement: Writing Deliverable Code." How developers get working software past the quality gates and into production. Artie Shevchenko (Canva): "Code Health Guardian." The old-new role of the human engineer in the AI era. That's 6 of 122 talks, and only one of 14 tracks. The full agenda drops next week. 4-5 November, Kinopolis Hamburg. Final Countdown ticket right now: 699 € instead of 799 €. Teams pay 649 € per person. www.codetalks.com #codetalks #codetalks2026 #softwarecraft

122 talks. 14 tracks. 94% of them not sponsored. It's on. code.talks 2026, 4-5 November, Kinopolis Hamburg. The third number is the one we're proudest of. You know the other kind of talk. Slide 3 is a problem, slide 4 is a product. You picked the session because the title sounded like a real story, and 10 minutes in you realize you're in a sales demo with a lanyard. At code.talks, 94% of the talks got on stage one way only: 25 curators, all of them practitioners, read the submission and decided it would make you better at your job. That's why you'll hear how OTTO saved $500k by moving to IPv6. How Scout24 is turning a digital platform into an AI-native company. Why Emily Bache says coding is dead and engineering isn't. Real stories, from the people who did the work. Including the parts that went badly. That's why dev teams in Germany have trusted code.talks for 16 years when they want ideas worth taking home. And 14 tracks means the whole team finds something: backend, frontend, data, security, product and the people leading them. Team tickets are 649 € per person right now instead of 799 €. Single tickets 699 €. www.codetalks.com #codetalks #codetalks2026 #developerconference

Last day. €549 instead of €799 — tonight it's over. code.talks, Germany's finest conference for Devs & CTOs. 4–5 November, Kinopolis Hamburg. Your ticket: ⚡️ All 100+ sessions across 14 tracks ⚡️ Great food ⚡️ All drinks ⚡️ Popcorn & nachos flat ⚡️ After Conference Party incl. drinks & secret act Reposts count until midnight: follow + repost and your team is in the draw for 10 tickets. We pick the winning team tomorrow. €250 back in the team budget → https://lnkd.in/e6AStg6g #codetalks #codetalks2026 #developerconference

3 days left. Then €549 turns back into €799. The Crazy Back to Office deal for code.talks ends on 14 September — Germany's finest conference for Devs & CTOs, 4–5 November at Kinopolis Hamburg. What you get for €549: ⚡️ All 100+ sessions across 14 tracks ⚡️ Great food ⚡️ All drinks ⚡️ Popcorn & nachos flat ⚡️ After Conference Party incl. drinks & secret act Last chance for the giveaway too: follow + repost this post and one team wins 10 tickets. We draw right after the campaign closes on 14 September. https://lnkd.in/e6AStg6g #codetalks #codetalks2026 #engineeringleadership

Any CTOs here 👀 Your agent isn't the risk. Its access is. Demo works fine, one agent, one scoped token, nobody's watching. Then a second agent needs its own credentials, a third needs approval logic, and by month three, you're maintaining a home-grown identity system nobody signed up to build. Add an agent, add more plumbing. It doesn't scale. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘅 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀: • Why custom identity plumbing becomes the #1 bottleneck in AI projects • How to handle the attack surface a single agent creates at scale without manual security practices • How pre-built identity gets agents into production in weeks, not quarters 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵: a clear answer to "who approved this action?", and a path to stop rebuilding identity for every new agent. 📅 Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · 18:00–19:00 CEST · Online 👤 Felix Colaci, Senior Solution Engineer at Okta, a decade in customer identity 💸 Free · For CTOs · Co-hosted with alphalist and code.talks Register now → https://lnkd.in/e_wWxxHz #codetalks #codetalks2026 #AI #CTOcommunity

100+ sessions. 14 tracks. Two days. €549. That's the Crazy Back to Office price for code.talks — Germany's finest conference for Devs & CTOs. Regular price €799, and it goes back up on 15 September. 11 days left. Every ticket includes: ⚡️ All 100+ sessions across 14 tracks ⚡️ Great food ⚡️ All drinks ⚡️ Popcorn & nachos flat ⚡️ After Conference Party incl. drinks & secret act WIN WIN WIN: 🎟️ Rather bring the whole team? Follow us + repost this post — we're giving away 10 tickets to one team, drawn right after the campaign ends on 14 September. 4–5 November, Kinopolis Hamburg → https://lnkd.in/e6AStg6g #codetalks #codetalks2026 #softwaredevelopment

This is how you join code.talks with your team for free. We're sending an entire team to code.talks — Germany's finest conference for Devs & CTOs, 4–5 November at Kinopolis Hamburg. Ten of your colleagues, two days, on us. How to enter: • Follow code.talks • Repost any of our Crazy Back to Office posts That's the whole thing. We draw the winning team right after the campaign ends on 14 September. What each of those 10 tickets includes: • All 100+ sessions across 14 tracks • Great food • All drinks • Popcorn & nachos flat • After Conference Party incl. drinks & secret act Don't want to leave it to luck? Until 14 September the ticket is €549 instead of €799 → https://lnkd.in/e6AStg6g #codetalks #codetalks2026 #developerconference