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# Videos

2243 videos · 24305 moments · 1256.1 hours of content

## All videos

### Building a hypercar from scratch

How do you build a 2000-horsepower electric hypercar? You abandon traditional supply chains completely. Instead, you write custom embedded code and engineer a billion-dollar architecture from scratch.

- **Speakers:** David Romić
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 31:37
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/607-building-a-hypercar-from-scratch)

### Throwing off the burdens of scale in engineering

David Singleton proves massive scale doesn't have to destroy engineering velocity. Discover how Stripe uses sensible architecture, friction logging, and AI to ruthlessly eliminate organizational drag.

- **Speakers:** David Singleton, Thomas Pamminger
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 32:00
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/608-throwing-off-the-burdens-of-scale-in-engineering)

### How to Survive The Worst Launch of Your Career with Brenda Romero

Brenda Romero asserts that no disastrous software launch is worth your mental health. Discover triage strategies to survive professional catastrophes and reclaim your passion without sacrificing yourself.

- **Speakers:** Brenda Romero
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 30:53
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/609-how-to-survive-the-worst-launch-of-your-career-with-brenda-romero)

### Lies we Tell Ourselves As Developers

TypeScript's strict type checking is lying to you. Uncover the hidden runtime pitfalls at your architectural boundaries and learn how to bridge the safety gap.

- **Speakers:** Stefan Baumgartner
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 31:13
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/610-lies-we-tell-ourselves-as-developers)

### From Punch Cards to AI-assisted Development

Programming once meant manually operating punch cards with zero margin for error. Discover how 75 years of developer frustration birthed the AI tools we rely on today.

- **Speakers:** Francesco Ciulla
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 36:53
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/611-from-punch-cards-to-ai-assisted-development)

### Fireside Chat: Deep Learning, Deep Impact: Harnessing AI for Language Innovation

Jarek Kutylowski outsmarted corporate giants by treating organizational design with the same rigor as complex neural networks. Discover the curated training data secrets fueling DeepL's unprecedented hypergrowth.

- **Speakers:** Jaroslaw Kutylowski, Rudi Bauer
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 31:15
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/612-fireside-chat-deep-learning-deep-impact-harnessing-ai-for-language-innovation)

### How Sparking Developer Joy Unlocks Developer Productivity

When Atlassian doubled their engineering workforce, strict processes accidentally crushed productivity. Learn how they restored velocity and eliminated codebase fear by prioritizing developer autonomy. Joy fundamentally drives output.

- **Speakers:** Anu Bharadwaj
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 31:59
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/613-how-sparking-developer-joy-unlocks-developer-productivity)

### The Quantum Leap: Redefining Computing and Its Applications

Classical computing has hit a physical wall. Quantum mechanics offers a way out. Discover how qubits will crack RSA encryption and push AI beyond current structural constraints.

- **Speakers:** Tomislav Tipurić
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 30:37
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/614-the-quantum-leap-redefining-computing-and-its-applications)

### Closing Keynote by Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky claims generative AI will completely disrupt traditional user interfaces. Discover how four decades of software evolution prepared developers to survive this conversational sixth era.

- **Speakers:** Joel Spolsky
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 46:42
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/615-closing-keynote-by-joel-spolsky)

### C++ Features You Might Not Know

Did you know using the unary plus operator forces lambda conversions? Discover terrifying syntactic anomalies like array index commutativity. Understand these hidden edge cases to master C++ mechanics.

- **Speakers:** Jonathan Müller
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 24:13
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/616-c-features-you-might-not-know)

### How to implement convenient Python bindings to C++

Integrating strict C++ into Python doesn't have to be sluggish. Master pybind11 to achieve zero-copy NumPy integrations and seamless type hinting. Build high-performance, idiomatic backtesting pipelines.

- **Speakers:** Konstantin Bespalov
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 22:13
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/618-how-to-implement-convenient-python-bindings-to-c)

### Python: Behind the Scenes

Did you know adding `__slots__` can slash a Python object's memory footprint by over 80%? Uncover the interpreter's hidden mechanics to write drastically leaner, performant code.

- **Speakers:** Diana Gastrin
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** August 11, 2023
- **Duration:** 25:29
- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/619-python-behind-the-scenes)

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