The talk that had the most influence on how I write software is Robert 'Uncle Bob' Martin's "Architecture: The Lost Years" [1]. Being a Ruby conference keynote,

The talk that had the most influence on how I write software is Robert 'Uncle Bob' Martin's "Architecture: The Lost Years" [1]. Being a Ruby conference keynote, it helps if you know how Ruby on Rails works, but the lessons apply to all software. Another one would be "Let It Crash! The Erlang Approach to Building Reliable Services" by Brian Troutwine. [2] I don't know if you would call it "technical" but Brett Slatkin's talk on Cohort Analysis is something anyone interested in tools to analyze how our users behave should watch. [3] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884 [2] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/erlang-reliable-services https://www.infoq.com/presentations/erlang-reliable-services [3] https://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/05/video-cohort-analysis-talk-at-google.html https://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/05/video-cohort-analysis-ta...