Abstract
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon San Francisco 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About Hosted by Khawaja Shams Co-Founder & CEO @Momento, previously @NASA and @AmazonFrom the same track
Monday 17 November
10:35 Ballroom A Session Architecture How to Build an Exchange Frank Yu Director of Engineering @Coinbase, Previously Principal Engineer and Director @FairX These days it is possible to achieve fairly good performance on cloud provisioned systems. We discuss the design of a high performance, strongly consistent system which maintains constant service in the face of regular updates to core logic. 11:45 Ballroom A Session Durability Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does) Jeremy Edberg, Qian Li What if everything you know about building distributed systems is backwards? 13:35 Pacific DEKJ Session Architecture Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems Murat Demirbas Principal Research Scientist @MongoDB Research, Previously Principal Applied Scientist @AWS and a Professor of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) Cloud systems are undergoing an architectural shift. Traditional shared-nothing designs struggle to deliver the elasticity, availability, and operational simplicity that the cloud demands. 14:45 Ballroom A Session Platform Engineering Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure Matthew Liste Head of Infrastructure @American Express, Previously @JPMorgan Chase and @Goldman Sachs In this talk, Matthew will describe lessons learned from over 20+ years of building scalable, secure and stable infrastructure platforms for software in financial services (electronic trading, credit card processing etc.), the talk is relevant to anyone building platforms for… 15:55 Ballroom A Session Architecture Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix Vidhya Arvind, Shawn Liu What does it take to safely delete data at Netflix scale? In large-scale systems, data deletion cuts across infrastructure, reliability, and performance complexities. 17:05 Seacliff D Unconference Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About