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Last Year's Tracks
Monday, 11 November
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Ethics, Regulation, Risk, and Compliance
With so much uncertainty, how do you bulkhead your organization and technology choices? Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty.
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Software Supply Chain
Life of a software artifact from commit to deployment. Security, observability and provenance of the software supply chain.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Hard-earned lessons from names you know on scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance.
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Languages of Infrastructure
This track explores languages being used to code the infrastructure. Expect practices on toolkits and languages like Cloudformation, Terraform, Python, Go, Rust, Erlang.
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Building & Scaling High-Performing Teams
To have a high-performing team, everybody on it has to feel and act like an owner. Organizational health and psychological safety are foundational underpinnings to support ownership.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
Tuesday, 12 November
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Socially Conscious Software
Power of leadership, Engineering Metrics and strategies for shaping the org for velocity.
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Modern Data Architectures
Today’s systems move huge volumes of data. Hear how places like LinkedIn, Facebook, Uber and more built their systems and learn from their mistakes.
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Microservices Patterns & Practices
What's the last mile for deploying your service? Learn techniques from the world's most innovative shops on managing and operating Microservices at scale.
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Pushing the Web Forward: JavaScript, Frameworks, Transpilers, and WebAssembly
JavaScript is the language of the web. Latest practices for JavaScript development in and how transpilers are affecting the way we work. We’ll also look at the work being done with WebAssembly.
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Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Practical approaches using DevOps and a lean approach to delivering software.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods & probabilistic programming.
Wednesday, 13 November
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Trust, Safety & Security
Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines.
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Machine Learning for Developers
AI/ML is more approachable than ever. Discover how deep learning and ML is being used in practice. Topics include: TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch & more. No PhD required.
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Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used from chaos testing to distributed systems clustering.
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JVM and its Ecosystem
JVM futures, JIT directions and improvements to the runtimes stack is the theme of this year’s JVM track.
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Optimizing Yourself: Human Skills for Individuals
Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC.
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Living on the Edge: The World of Edge Compute From Device to Infrastructure Edge
IOT/IIOT, Federated Learning, Application Gateways, Serverless, Kubernetes, WASM/WASI all at the edge? This track explores what’s being done at the modern edge.
Last Year's Featured Speakers
Bleeding-edge for the Enterprise
Bring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to your team
Cilium/eBPF
Java 11
Deep Learning
WebAssembly
Mixed Reality
gVisor
CRDTs
Algorithmic Transparency
Graph Algorithms
Developer Experience
Data Engineering
Kubernetes
Machine Learning/AI
Lambda/Serverless
Istio
Rust
Chaos Engineering
.NET Core
Service Mesh
Voice Assistant/Interaction
DevOps
Operationalizing Microservices
Reactive
Containers
Go-Lang
Take a look at the 2019 conference highlights
2019 Tracks, Hosts and Workshops
“Microservices Patterns & Practices”, “Modern CS in the Real World”, “Optimizing Yourself: Human Skills for Individuals” were just some of the 18 editorial tracks at QCon San Francisco 2019. Take a look at the others and catch a glimpse of the QCon San Francisco 2019 workshops.
See the Tracks, Hosts and Workshops →2019 Trending Talks
Some of the top sessions from QCon San Francisco 2019 included “Scaling Patterns for Netflix's Edge” by Netflix’s Playback Edge Engineering Justin Ryan, and “Privacy Architecture for Data-Driven Innovation” by Uber’s Digital Product Architect Nishant Bhajaria.
Watch all the trending talks →2019 Keynotes
QCon San Francisco 2019 keynotes included Mike McGarr, Engineering Leader, Frontend Infrastructure at Slack, and Pat Helland, Software Architect at Salesforce.
Watch all the QCon San Francisco 2019 keynotes →2019 Photos and Testimonials
Relive the experience through our photos from the 13th edition of QCon San Francisco. Discover the impact QCon had on our attendees in their own words.
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