You Are Not A Commodity (Keynote at Tikal Full Stack Tech Radar Day)

You Are Not A Commodity (Keynote at Tikal Full Stack Tech Radar Day)

Author: Greatest Hits Archives - Software Engineering Daily July 7, 2019 Duration: 29:37
Today’s episode is a keynote I gave at Full Stack Tech Radar Day in Tel Aviv. The talk is called “You Are Not a Commodity”. This talk is also available as a YouTube video. The slides can be accessed here. The world of commodity engineering is coming to an end. Developers are becoming more productive,

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