Observability & SRE at QCon San Francisco 2026

At QCon San Francisco 2026, discover the emerging trends trends and practices in Observability & SRE 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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AI & ML Architecture Teams & Orgs Platform Engineering Modern Languages & Infrastructure Observability & SRE DevEx & Frontends Cloud Security

Observability & SRE sessions at QCon San Francisco 2026

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

Adapt or Drift: Resilience Engineering When AI Moves the Operating Point

Resilient systems do not stay resilient by standing still. They survive by adapting. But adaptation comes with risk: under sustained pressure, organizations and systems can slowly drift toward failure while still appearing to operate normally.

Andrew Hatch

Engineering Leader and SRE Manager @Cisco ThousandEyes, With 25+ Years Building Software, Operations, SRE, and Platform Teams Across Australia, India, and the United States

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

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Tracks

12 tracks with 60+ presentations from senior practitioners

Architecture Observability & SRE Nov 17

Distributed Systems in Production

In this track you’ll hear from engineers and architects who are living with distributed systems every day—shipping features, firefighting incidents, and pushing the limits of scale.

Vidhya Arvind

Tech Lead & a Founding Architect for the Data Abstraction Platform @Netflix, Previously @Box and @Verizon

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Cloud Observability & SRE Nov 16

Resilience Engineering: Everything Fails All the Time

Learn how to design systems that expect failure, adapt to it, and continue operating under stress.

Vanessa Huerta Granda

Resilience Engineering Manager @Enova, Co-Author of the Howie Guide on Post Incident Analysis, Board Member for the Resilience in Software Foundation

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QCon is where you discover what’s next, from the senior practitioners building it. We focus on emerging patterns proven in production, sharing the unfiltered story: the real-world trade-offs, the hard-won lessons, and what it actually took to ship.

Dio Synodinos

President, C4Media (makers of InfoQ and QCon)

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.

Luca Mezzalira,

Principal Solutions Architect, QCon Speaker, O'Reilly Author, YouTuber

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Unlock your potential at QCon San Francisco 2026

Gain concrete strategies from 60+ hand picked speakers across 12 curated tracks.
Real-world talks curated for depth, value, without hidden product pitches.
Network with peers at Unconferences, in the 'hallway track', during extended breaks, over lunch, and at conference socials.
Gain 12 months on-demand access to session recordings after the conference to continue your learning journey.