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QCon San Francisco 2026 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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Tuesday 17 November
10:35 Seacliff ABC Session Breaking Down the Walls to Python & Big Data + AI Performance with Transpilation and LLMs Holden Karau Data Engineer @Snowflake & Co-Founder of Fight Health Insurance, Previously @Netfilx, @Apple, and @Google 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. 11:45 Seacliff ABC Session Data Infrastructure Building a Data Platform with AI Mouli Mukherjee Engineering Manager @OpenAI Data platform sits at the intersection of infrastructure, governance, operations, and user experience. 13:35 Seacliff D Unconference Unconference: Data Platforms Reimagined 14:45 Seacliff ABC Session One Does Not Simply Add Synchronous Writes - Bridging Batch and Real Time with Apache Iceberg What happens when a batch ingestion platform needs to behave like an operational database? Datadog’s Reference Tables product was designed for asynchronous uploads of large datasets, but customers increasingly needed synchronous row-level edits, without sacrificing batch scale. 15:55 Seacliff ABC Session Controlling Costs in the Era of Infinite Compute Details coming soon. 17:05 Seacliff ABC Session Handling High-Velocity Ingestion Outside the Cloud Details coming soon.