World Congress 2023 • Aug 11, 2023

The Clean as You Code Imperative

Olivier Gaudin

Stop mopping the floor while ignoring the leak. Learn how enforcing strict quality gates exclusively on new code changes naturally remediates legacy systems without an impossible refactoring backlog.

The Clean as You Code Imperative thumbnail

Checking access…

Playback and chapters load privately for Free videos.

Matching moments

1:29 min

Introduction to keeping test code clean

Gil Zilberfeld · LIVE

2:23 min

Improving communication while defending foundational code quality

Hendrik Lösch

Hendrik Lösch · World Congress 2025

6:34 min

Defining the core principles of clean code

Gil Zilberfeld · LIVE

1:52 min

Balancing technical debt and clean code practices

Stefan Lingler

Stefan Lingler +1 · Coffee With Developers

5:55 min

Evaluating generated code syntax and maintaining quality control

Phil Nash · Coffee With Developers

3:26 min

Managing codebase bloat and preserving critical software auditability

Boris Hecker

Boris Hecker +3 · World Congress 2026 Europe

More from World Congress 2023

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development thumbnail

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development

Lorenzo Pieri

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen! thumbnail

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen!

Nathalie Gierth

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice thumbnail

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice

Clemens Hübner · inovex

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams thumbnail

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams

Moritz Johner

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing thumbnail

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing

Fifty Shades of Kubernetes Autoscaling thumbnail

Fifty Shades of Kubernetes Autoscaling

Mario-Leander Reimer

Upcoming sessions on this topic

The 200,000 line code repository: My AI wrote 1000 lines. I needed 100.

Hardik Gupta

IBM

Software Developer

Your AI Wrote the Code. Who Vouches for It?

Siddharth Joshi

GitHub

Senior Customer Success Architect

Ship Happens: Guardrails for AI-Written Code

Anthony Nguyen

LaunchDarkly

Senior Solutions Engineer

Beware of Strangers Bearing Code: Open Source Trust in the Agent Era

Vikram Vaswani

Consultant

Teaching AI Coding Agents to Build It Right the First Time

Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

Microsoft

Principal Product Manager

Beyond vibe coding: Mastering the AI-native SDLC from code to production

Amith Singhee

IBM

Director, IBM Research India and AI for Z, SIL; CTO, IBM India / South Asia

Related videos

Practical tips for keeping your C# code base clean thumbnail

Practical tips for keeping your C# code base clean

Dennis Doomen · Aviva Solutions

World Congress Europe · 2026

Your Code as a Crime Scene thumbnail

Your Code as a Crime Scene

Adam Tornhill

Coffee With Developers · Jun 2025

Keep your code refactorable thumbnail

Keep your code refactorable

Gerrit Stapper

World Congress · 2022

Code Style in Practice: Balancing Preferences and Consistency thumbnail

Code Style in Practice: Balancing Preferences and Consistency

Angelika Shvets · Global-e

World Congress Europe · 2026

Build a CI/CD pipeline to automate code reviews and ensure code quality thumbnail

Build a CI/CD pipeline to automate code reviews and ensure code quality

Julien Delange

LIVE · Feb 2022

The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can’t See thumbnail

The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can’t See

Maish Saidel-Keesing · AWS

World Congress Europe · 2026

Related articles

DC

Daniel Cranney

How to Avoid Over-Engineering

In today’s software development world, the demand for designing applications that are both robust and easy to maintain is more pressing than ever. Many developers encounter the architectural chaos ...

almost 2 years ago

A series of code blocks with 'X's on showing they are incorrect, with one CSS block shown as the correct answer.

AB

Andre Braun, GitLab

Now is the time for industrialized software development

Now is the time for industrialized software development Recently, I received a letter from my car’s manufacturer alerting me to a recall. They had discovered a defective part and wanted to replace ...

over 1 year ago

A person developint HTML on a laptop with the sun shining on it.

DC

Daniel Cranney

One billion (bad?) developers: How AI is changing the way we learn to code

AI has transformed so many aspects of programming, with IDE-integrated code assistants now capable of building complex projects from simple prompts.While AI makes it easier for newcomers to dive in...

almost 2 years ago

One billion (bad?) developers: How AI is changing the way we learn to code

DC

Daniel Cranney

Code reviews might actually be pointless

Code reviews are a well-trodden path in the world of software engineering, designed to help improve code quality and encourage collaboration among team members. Of course factors like security and ...

almost 2 years ago

Code reviews might actually be pointless

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Principal Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review

San Francisco, CA, United States

Expert Ruby Golang Github

Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub Security Lab

San Francisco, CA, United States

Experienced $323k Git Github Databases

6 days ago • Verified

Software Development Engineer 1

Bengaluru, India

Starter Remote Java Spring

6 days ago • Verified

Software Development Engineer 1

Bengaluru, India

Starter Remote Java

Staff Software Engineer, GitHub Actions

Experienced Remote Ruby Github Scripting

Staff Software Engineer, GitHub Actions

New York, NY, United States

Experienced Ruby Github Scripting