Software has an ever increasing impact on individuals and society. Understanding these implications helps build software that works for all users

To be an effective engineer, requires more than great coding skills. Learn the subtle arts of the tech lead, including empathy, communication, and organization.

Dive into some of the technologies that can be leveraged to ultimately deliver a more impactful interaction between the user and client.

More than just Infrastructure as a Service, today we have libraries, languages, and platforms that help us define our infra. Languages of Infra explore languages and libraries being used today to build modern cloud native architectures.

Understanding the Hardware Makes You a Better Developer

Deployment pipelines allow us to push to production at ever increasing volume. Paths to production looks at how some of software's most well known shops continuous deliver code.

Mobile, Micro, Modular: The platform continues to evolve and change. Discover how the platform continues to drive us forward.

How to build secure, yet usable, systems from the engineer's perspective.

The innovations necessary to build towards a fully automated decentralized data warehouse.

AI and machine learning are more approachable than ever. Discover how ML, deep learning, and other modern approaches are being used in practice by Software Engineers.

The road map to an inclusive and diverse tech organization. *Diversity & Inclusion defined as the inclusion of all individuals in an within tech, regardless of gender, religion, ethnicity, race, age, sexual orientation, and physical or mental fitness.

How do they do it? In QCon's marquee Architectures track, we learn what it takes to operate at large scale from well-known names in our industry. You will take away hard-earned architectural lessons on scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance.

Your system will fail. Build systems with the confidence to know when they do and you won’t.

More and more companies are moving to remote work. How do you build, work on, and lead teams remotely?

Building and operating distributed systems is hard, and microservices are no different. Learn strategies for not just building a service but operating them at scale.

Computer science in practice. An applied track that fuses together the human side of computer science with the technical choices that are made along the way

Web-based API continue to evolve. The track provides the what, how, and why of future APIs, including GraphQL, Backend for Frontend, gRPC, & ReST

What was once a paradigm shift in how we thought of programming languages is now main stream in nearly all modern languages. Hear how software shops are infusing concepts like pure functions and immutablity into their architectures and design choices.