DevFlow Conf 2027 sessions
Opening Keynote: The Ten-Minute Feedback Loop
Wednesday, May 12, 2027 · 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM · Main Stage
Developer Experience Keynote (45 min)Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts
Every engineering organisation is really a machine for shortening the distance between a question and its answer. This keynote looks at what changes structurally when that loop dro…
Progressive Delivery Without the Drama
Wednesday, May 12, 2027 · 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM · Room 2A
Platform & Infra Talk (30 min)Remus Lupin, Wolfsbane Reliability
Canaries, feature flags and automated rollback sound great until the first incident where all three disagree. Here is the decision tree we use, the four metrics that actually gate …
Taming 40-Minute CI: Incremental Builds at Monorepo Scale
Wednesday, May 12, 2027 · 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM · Room 2B
Platform & Infra Talk (30 min)Hermione Granger, Hogwarts Buildworks · Harry Potter, Order of the Phoenix Labs
Our monorepo CI took 40 minutes on a good day. This talk walks through how we cut it to 6 minutes with content-addressed caching, remote execution, and a test-selection model — inc…
Workshop: Building an Internal Developer Platform in a Day
Wednesday, May 12, 2027 · 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM · Workshop Lab
Platform & Infra Workshop (120 min)Ginny Weasley, Burrow Platform
A hands-on session where we build a working internal developer platform from an empty repository: golden paths, a service catalogue, a paved-road CI template and a self-service env…
Panel: Who Owns Developer Productivity?
Wednesday, May 12, 2027 · 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM · Main Stage
Developer Experience Panel (45 min)Molly Weasley, Burrow Data · Nymphadora Tonks, Auror Works · Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ministry Systems
Three engineering leaders argue about where developer productivity should live: in a platform team, in every team, or nowhere at all. Expect disagreement about metrics and at least…
Thursday, May 13, 2027 · 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM · Main Stage
AI Engineering Talk (30 min)Cho Chang, Ravenclaw AI
Agent evaluations are flaky, expensive and easy to fool. This talk covers the harness we run on every pull request: deterministic seeds, judge calibration, cost budgets, and the tr…
Ship It Friday: A Release Ritual That Works
Thursday, May 13, 2027 · 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM · Room 2A
Developer Experience Lightning Talk (10 min)Ron Weasley, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes DevRel
Ten minutes on the release ritual that took us from monthly, terrifying deployments to Friday afternoon shrugs — and the three rules we never break.…
Vector Databases in Production: What the Benchmarks Miss
Thursday, May 13, 2027 · 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM · Room 2B
AI Engineering Talk (30 min)Cedric Diggory, Hufflepuff Retrieval
Recall@10 on a static corpus tells you almost nothing about a retrieval system that ingests two million documents a day. We cover index rebuild strategies, hybrid search tuning and…
Prompt Regression Testing for Real Products
Thursday, May 13, 2027 · 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM · Room 2A
AI Engineering Talk (30 min)Harry Potter, Order of the Phoenix Labs
Prompts are code with none of the safety. This session shows how we version prompts, snapshot their outputs, score drift with a cheap judge, and gate deploys on the result — plus w…
Platform Teams as Product Teams
Friday, May 14, 2027 · 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM · Main Stage
Platform & Infra Talk (30 min)Fleur Delacour, Beauxbatons Cloud
If your platform has users, it has churn, onboarding and a roadmap. We ran our platform group as a product team for two years: here is the research cadence, the adoption metric we …
Friday, May 14, 2027 · 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM · Room 2B
AI Engineering Talk (30 min)Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ministry Systems
Traces for agent runs look nothing like traces for request/response services: they branch, retry and argue with themselves. This talk covers the span model we settled on, cost attr…