Being a product engineer before 2024 was hard. Developers must be masters of everything from frontend to DevOps, juggling multiple technologies, responsibilities, and languages. We need more hours in a day to handle maintenance, feature development, and deployments. It's not fair!

Fortunately, some tools and practices can help reduce the burden of building quality products.

In this talk, we identify responsibilities that create extraneous cognitive load (responsibilities that do not contribute directly to product outcomes) and cause friction then identify processes, tools, and technologies that reduce that load.

Expect to leave this talk as a product engineer liberated from drowning in responsibilities and learn to have more time for the product.