Gotopia Articles: Insights, Trends and Innovation

The Augmented Forest

Open Source Is Under Attack & AI Made It Worse

State of the Art of Platform Engineering

The Architect's Guide to the AI Era

Sovereign Cloud: Who Really Owns Your Infrastructure?

Roc & Zig: A Compiler Rewrite Story

Spec-Driven Development Is Back. But Not How You Think

State of the Art of Java in 2026

The Python Dev Who Built Rich, Textual & now Toad Just Redesigned How You Talk to AI

The Typo That Broke Production — And Accidentally Created Spring Cloud Contract

One Size Fits None: How Platform Engineering Must Evolve

Beyond the Hype: What AI Actually Can (and Can't) Do

Beyond Backstage: Building Platforms That Scale

The Rush to Adopt AI: Business Risks & How to Get it Right

State of the Art of Container Security

CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps

The 2025 Nerd Gift Guide: Practical Ideas and Fun Surprises

Building Modern Databases with the FDAP Stack

Apache Spark Veteran Builds AI Tool to Challenge Healthcare Insurance Denials

Building Software That Survives

Building Better Software: Why Workflows Beat Code Every Time

Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving

The Death of Classical Computer Science: An Interview with Matt Welsh

The End of Engineering's Blank Check: Accountability in Software Leadership

How to Discover the Binary System as a Child

Breaking the Architecture Bottleneck

GOTO State of the Art Series: Building AI Applications That Actually Work - From Prompt Engineering to Synthetic Market Research

Living with Broken Systems: How AI Coding Tools Change Our Relationship with Complexity

From Hardware Hacker to CTO: Building Teams That Scale

Building Support Structures

Platform Engineering: From Theory to Practice

Technical Leadership in Media: Architecture, Communication, and AI Challenges at the FT

The Blind Spots of Platform Engineering

Spring AI: Building Production-Ready AI Applications

Ethics in AI: Navigating Regulation, Bias, and Responsibility in 2025

Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution

Effective Communication in Code Reviews: The Conventional Comments Approach

Building Bridges: From Developer to Developer Advocate

Reading Code Effectively: An Overlooked Developer Skill

Building Modern Software at Scale: Architectural Principles Two Decades in the Making

Small PRs, Big Impact: The Art and Science of Effective Code Reviews

Building a world-class tech conference: Behind the scenes with Preben Thorö

Maps, AI, and the Future of Reasoning: A Conversation with Simon Wardley

From Extreme Programming to TCR and Limbo

Tap into Fast Flow with Team Topologies & Platform Engineering

Design & Develop Distributed Software Better with Multiplayer

How To Lead Through Transformation in Tech

Revolutionizing Software with Moldable Development

How to Learn: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets

How to Continuously Deliver Quality Software Against All Odds

How to Deal with Software Complexity

Balancing Technology and Human Creativity

Innovations in Serverless and Event-Driven Solutions

Observability 2.0: Transforming Logging and Metrics in Software Engineering

Software Architecture for Tomorrow: Expert Talk

Navigating Complexity with Systems Thinking

Enhancing Productivity with Aesthetics, Tools, and AI

Intro to Product Thinking: Building Human-Centric Tools

Optimizing Organizational Flow with Wardley Mapping & Domain-Driven Design

1 Million Subscribers to the GOTO YouTube Channel 🎉

Harnessing AI to Clean up Beaches from Plastic Pellets: Signe Simonsen’s Revolutionary Vision

Dynamic Teams: Reteaming Patterns & Practices

Putting a Prompt into Production

Navigating AI's Impact

Unifying Cloud Development: The Evolution of Infrastructure from Code

The Value Flywheel Effect: A Serverless First Strategy at Liberty Mutual

Embrace Step Functions for Efficient Workflow Management

Journeying Through Complexity: Gene Kim's Insights on Leadership and Innovation

Functions vs Containers: The Serverless Landscape

How Architecture and Culture Go Hand in Hand

Mastering Web Security: Myths, Strategies & More!

Expert Talk: Are We Post-Serverless?

How Structures Affect Outcomes: Insights from Software Engineering Leader Elisabeth Hendrickson

The Art of EDA Visuals: Exploring Concepts Through Graphics

What Does It Take To Be a Data Scientist?

Natural Language Processing in Real-life: Introduction

Dev Harmony: Communication and Proven SRE Practices

Elixir, Phoenix LiveView & Erlang: Expert Talk

Intro to Roc & Innovation in Functional Programming

Elixir's Impact: Shaping the Evolution of Erlang

Cryptocurrencies Are Traceable & What Is Cryptojacking?

Decoding Modern Tech: Cloud, APIs, Wasm, Security, & More

Navigating Through Programming's Greatest Mistakes

Designing A Data-Intensive Future: An Unscripted Journey with Martin Kleppmann

Unleashing Native Imaging Power in GraalVM

Unlocking the Web: Exploring WebAuthn and Beyond

How a 130 People-strong Company with no Bosses are Defying Traditional Organizational Structures

Quarkus Unveiled: Efficiency & Green Impact

Elevating Kubernetes Development through Seamless Service Mesh Integration

Advanced Application Deployment Strategies with CNCF Technologies

Demystifying Central Bank Digital Currency: The Technical Breakdown

Introducing Byte-Sized Software Tutorials – Your Secret to Technical Proficiency

Elevating Security Awareness in Software Development with GitHub Features

Code, Immutability, and the Future of Development: Insights from Dave Thomas

OAuth: A Critical Security and Efficiency Tool for Software Developers

Expert Talk: The Current State of Software Engineering

Top Trends in Software Development That You Should Know About

Breaking Free from Meeting Overload and Harnessing the Epiphany Effect

Key Takeaways from the Cutting-Edge GOTO Copenhagen 2023 Conference

How DevOps and Gamification Are Key For a Winning Strategy in Software

Building Secure Container Images with Wolfi

Jesse Anderson on The Who, What, When, Where, and How of Data Project Success

Quantum computing in the cloud

Clare Sudbery's Guide to Navigating through iOS App Development

Problem Solving With Erlang and the BEAM

Uncover the Secrets of GOTO Copenhagen and GOTO AI Days Chicago with Trifork CEO, Jørn Larsen

How to put Engineering into Software Development

Crafting Robust Architectures for a Resilient Future

Honoring the Legacy of Doug Lenat, a Visionary and AI Guru

Fun is a Serious Business in the Workplace: Holly Cummins

Teaching Kids to Code with Sonic Pi

Exploring Joy-Driven Coding and the 'CUPID' Method by Daniel Terhorst-North

The Origin of Dylan Beattie & The Linebreakers

Commemorating the Enduring Legacy of Stefan Tilkov

Building Software Like a Bag of Marbles: A ‘SOLID’ Approach for Software Developers

Gamification, Systems Thinking and the Power of Observability in Software

Russ Miles on Navigating Collaboration Challenges and Lessons from his Software Engineering Journey

Looking Back at First Round of 2023 GOTO Conferences

Simplifying Dev Environments With the Right Tools

How to Implement Privacy Technology in Software, Emerging Trends & More

GOTO and AWS Partner Up for the Second GOTO EDA Day in Nashville

Empowering Consumers: Evolution of Software in the Future

Ryan Carniato on SolidJS: “It Puts the Control Back in the Developer's Hands”

Expert Talk: Hack Like a Pro: Bug Bounties, Web Vulnerabilities & More!

Expert Talk: Zig Programming Language and Linters

Expert Talk: Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Analytics

Getting Better at Security, Code Quality and Leveraging Infrastructure as Code with Rosemary Wang

Holly Cummins on How Quarkus Can Help You Go from Code to Cloud in No Time

Expert talk: Sustainable Software in Practice

Quantified Self: From Data to Actionable Dashboards

Expert Talk: War Stories from Moving to the Cloud

Are You Ready for YOW! in Australia?

From Ada Lovelace to Kimberly Bryant: Inspiring Women Shaping the Software Industry

Expert Talk: Five Lines of Code

Sam Aaron’s Sonic Pi Can Help You Make Music Through Code

How AutoML & Low Code Empowers Data Scientists

Teaching Kids How to Code with Hedy

Building Modern Apps with Serverless & Feature Flags

Why Cloud Native is the New Standard

The Current State of Cyber Security

Fascinating Life Stories about Apple from Steve Wozniak

Better Tests at GitHub & Commodore 64 Music

2022's Most Memorable Moments at GOTO

Simplicity & Complexity: The Beauty & the Beast?

YOW! London 2022 — It’s Been a Blast!

Agile is Dead – Long Live DevOps?

Beyond the Code: Deploying Empathy

Reasons to Attend YOW! London 2022

Expert Talk: Cloud Native and Serverless

Expert Talk: What is Agile Sabotage?

Can Top-Down Agile Work?

Expert Talk: Code Refactoring

Expert Talk: Cloud Chaos & How Contract Tests Can Help

The Impact of Legacy Systems on Digital Transformations

Expert Talk: Scaling Down Complexity in Software

Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles

Expert Talk: How to Deal with Hypergrowth

Driving Innovation with Kubernetes & Java

Craftsmanship: Code, Guitars & Tech

Humankind: A Hopeful History

Expert talk: What’s Next for .Net?

Expert Talk: Managing Complexity in Software

Expert Talk: gRPC, Kubernetes & .NET

Bridging Cybersecurity: Detectify

Expert Talk: Native vs Cross-Platform

Modern Software Practices in a Legacy System

Expert Talk: Functional Programming

Expert Talk: Software Security

Expert Talk: Continuous Architecture

What are Micro-Frontends and How to Use Them

Happy International Women’s Day!

What We Learned in February

Expert Talk: Web Development & Its Failures

Expert Talk: DevOps & Software Architecture

The Ideal Programming Language

Efficiency vs Effectiveness in Agile

Programming: Now and Then

Erlang: Solving Problems at Scale for 30+ Years

Migrating to Kubernetes + Best Practices for Cloud Native

Grateful for 2021, excited for what 2022 will bring

A Fireside Chat with Hannah Fry, Simon Singh & Kevlin Henney

Hydrogen Power: How Far Will It Take Us?

The Path to Becoming a Senior Engineering Manager

Our gathering back in Copenhagen after 2 years!

Behind the Scenes with a NASA Engineer

The Future of DevOps

Java Security and the Java Ecosystem

Global Himalayan Expedition

Is Machine Learning a Black Box?

Developing in Blockchain: The Need-To-Know When Getting Started

Functional Programming Through the Lens of a Philosopher and Linguist

A Container Security Checklist

How Microteams Change the Way We Collaborate. Again.

Command-line, The Underestimated Tool

Our First Conference Post-Lockdown, Latest Videos and Articles + Lots More!

From Objective-C to Swift and the Latest Innovations at Apple

How Our First On-Site Conference Since March 2020 Went

How to Keep Your Cloud-Native Apps Secure

How Microsoft is Leading the Way to Sustainable Software

Should Kotlin Be Your Go-To Language?

How Team Structure Influences Code Quality

Erlang, Elixir, Blockchain & Serverless... Wait, What?

How To Run a Successful Asynchronous Team

Continuous Delivery, Microservices & Serverless in 10 Minutes

A Glimpse at Virtual CodeNode

How a Machine Learning Project Can Go Wrong

How Technology Influences Our Decisions

Adoption and Future Perspectives for the Cloud

Next (In-Person) Conference, New Videos and Articles + Lots More

Looking back at GOTOpia Chicago 2021

AI, ML & Data Science: What's the Difference?

Quantum Computing in Practice

Tips to Prevent Burnout

Leveraging Our “Brains” in Software Development

Don’t Miss These Recent GOTO Favorites

What is Data Science and Where is it Heading?

How to Adopt a Seamless Shift-Left Security Process

What is General Artificial Intelligence

Catch Talks on the GOTO Podcast

Common Agile Misconceptions

Recent Favorites From All Things GOTO

Next Generation Cloud System

GOTOpia Chicago 2021

Celebrating International Women’s Day!

Inclusion in the Workplace

Software 2.0 and AI as an Engineering Discipline

Five Things Every Developer Should Know about Software Architecture

Real-life Quantum Computing

GOTOpia February 2021 Highlights

JDK 16: Should You Upgrade or Wait For 17?

Technology’s Impact on Humankind and Where We’re Headed Next

From Flying Cars to Humans on Mars with Anita Sengupta

The Chaos Behind Netflix’s 200m+ Members

AWS Failure Injection Simulator: New Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering

The Future of Java: Will You Have to Pay For It?

“When Biology is Tech, Nature is Your Open Source Library” — Covid-Sniffing Robots Offer Testing Alternative

Tips and Tricks to Manage Stress as a Developer

Python Was Crowned Programming Language King of 2020

Machine Ethics, Artificial Intelligence & Humanity with Nell Watson & Priyanka Vergadia

What We Learned in 2020

Bringing SimCorp’s Software Engineering Day to Life

Celebrate the End of 2020 (Finally) at Our GOTO Holiday Party

Celebrating 200k YouTube Subscribers!

Don’t Miss the Next Online GOTOpia this Feb.

The Importance of Reinforcement Learning with Phil Winder

A Look Back at GOTOpia November 2020

Should We Be on the Lookout for OAuth 3.0?

Need Help Convincing Your Boss to Attend GOTOpia November 2020?

4 Essential Tips to Building a Unified API Design

A Look Back at GOTOpia Europe 2020

How to Get the Most Out of an Online Conference

How to Get Your Boss to Send You to GOTOpia Europe 2020

How We Pivoted to an Online Conference, and Why We Can’t Wait to Do It Again

A Look Back at GOTO Chicago 2020

Saving GOTO Amsterdam for December

Make the Most out of Being at Home

Submit a Sticker Design for a Free Pass to GOTO Amsterdam 2020

A Few Highlights From 2019

GOTO Copenhagen 2019’s Best Bits

Sustainable Event Organization

Highlights from GOTO Berlin 2019

Global Supertrends with Steve Wozniak

GOTO Berlin Will Plant a Tree for Every Attendee

Silicon Valley Icon & Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Will Be at GOTO Copenhagen 2019!

Rethinking Conference Swag

Meet GOTO Chicago’s Grant Winners

From Sci-Fi to Reality, Quantum Computers Are Coming!

Happy International Women’s Day!