Modern Languages & Infrastructure at QCon San Francisco 2026
At QCon San Francisco 2026, discover the emerging trends trends and practices in Modern Languages & Infrastructure directly from the senior practitioners who are defending what's next.
November 16–20, 2026
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Early Bird Deadline August 11th
Conference: $2,715
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Modern Languages & Infrastructure sessions at QCon San Francisco 2026
Breaking down the walls to Python & Big Data + AI Performance with Transpilation and LLMs
Many of us have a love hate relationship with Apache Spark, especially when it comes to PySpark. Especially in Python, the UDF performance can be a dumpster fire.
Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale
Even in the ethereal world of software, everything has a limit. And, once that limit is reached, very bad things can happen. In this talk, we will explore the problem of saturation: when a software system runs into one of these limits.
Lorin Hochstein
Staff Software Engineer @Airbnb, Writes @surfingcomplexity.blog, Previously @Netflix and Member of the Resilience in Software Foundation
The Schema Was Never Enough: The World in Protocols
Every reliable process in the world is a protocol: auctions, double-entry bookkeeping, brokerage account transfers, or APIs. Protocols reduce ambiguity but the world remains messy.
Ryan Scott Brown
Principal Engineer @Crunchyroll, Previously @Red Hat, @Trek10, and @Vendia
How to Build Online Systems with Object Storage
“Diskless” systems that delegate durability to object storage are everywhere, and for three good reasons:
Almog Gavra
Co-Founder @Responsive.dev - Building Object-Native Databases, Previously @Confluent and @LinkedIn
Trainings
Agent MCP Workshop: Building Your Own Java-Based MCP Server
Friday Nov 20 · 09:00AM PST
Training host
David Parry
Principal Architect @Qodo
intermediate
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Conversations that turn insight into impact
The scheduled sessions at QCon are the agenda, but the real value is in the unscripted moments: the whiteboard debates in an unconference, the candid advice over coffee, the speaker dinner stories about failures and trade-offs. That's the perspective you can't get from a screen.
Principal Solutions Architect, QCon Speaker, O'Reilly Author, YouTuber
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