Schedule

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Architecting for Change at Scale

Adopting Continuous Deployment at Lyft

All organizations, regardless of size, need to be able to make rapid changes and improvements in their constantly growing systems. How can we handle all this change while maintaining a reliable product? 

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"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

Successful Leadership in Hybrid Environments: Powerful Principles, Practical Steps, and Poignant Examples

Being a technical- or people leader in a hybrid work environment can be extra challenging: While on paper, it may look like hybrid work combines the “best of both [remote and co-located] worlds”, the reality often looks drastically different: 

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Building Modern Backends

Backends in Dart

Dart's popularity has surged in the past few years, as it's the language behind Flutter - Google's cross platform front end framework. That's now driving a notion of 'Full Stack Dart', where if you've spent time learning Dart for the front end, why not also use it for the back end.

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Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Taming Configuration Complexity Made Fun with CUE

Configuration has become the number one complexity problem to solve in infrastructure and beyond. Configuration is in more places than people imagine. Every part of your tech stack—databases, apps, schemas, services, workflows, policy, models, networking—must be configured.

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MLOps

Ray: The Next Generation Compute Runtime for ML Applications

Ray is an open source project that makes it simple to scale any compute-intensive Python workload. Industry leaders like Uber, Shopify, Spotify are building their next generation ML platforms on top of Ray.

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Architecting for Change at Scale

Enabling Change @ Scale Roundtable

Increasing the safe delivery of change has immense business value across a number of dimensions, so how can we improve our ability to manage change at scale?

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"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

Building High-Trust and High-Performing Teams at Shopify in a Remote World

The switch to remote-only and hybrid has unlocked so much potential for the world and our companies: we can hire the best, people can live where they want, and we can form teams based on skills and interest instead of location.

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Building Modern Backends

24/7 State Replication

Systems that operate non-stop, 24/7 are standard in many consumer-facing industries. Often, but definitely not always, these systems do not have aggressive SLAs nor high availability needs to the degree that some financial systems demand. But that is changing.

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Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Unconference: Language of Infrastructure

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

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MLOps

Fabricator: End-to-End Declarative Feature Engineering Platform

At Doordash, the last year has seen a surge in applications of machine learning to various product verticals in our growing business. However, with this growth, our data scientists have had increasing bottlenecks in their development cycle because of our existing feature engineering process.

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Sponsored Solutions Track I

Is Web3 Here to Stay?

You may be familiar with the current reputation of web3, but are you up to date on the advantages of distributed ledgers applied in the real world? Join us for a deeper dive into how companies are using this innovative technology today.

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Sponsored Solutions Track II

Four Steps to Unlocking Your Ability to Deploy Multiple Times a Day

Are you a team looking to deploy more frequently or implement Continuous Delivery? In this talk, we’ll walk you through four pragmatic and actionable steps to transform how your team delivers software so you can deploy to production many times a day.

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Architecting for Change at Scale

Unconference: Architecting for Change

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

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"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

[Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now?

The panelists have all been part of organizations that have fully embraced hybrid or remote work, and some were leading that charge. The question is, how do we go back to work next week and start making real changes for the better?

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Building Modern Backends

Ubiquitous Caching: A Journey of Building Efficient Distributed and In-Process Caches at Twitter

Modern web applications widely deploy cache across the stack to speed up data access and improve throughput. In this talk, I will discuss three trends in hardware, workload, and cache usage that shape the design of modern caches.

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Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Programming Your Policies

Software is eating the world, and this talk is about how it is coming to eat the world of policy. I will talk about why this is happening, what the business drivers are, and how it affects developers and compliance and security departments, and the cultural and communication changes there.

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MLOps

An Open Source Infrastructure for PyTorch

In this talk we’ll go over tools and techniques to deploy PyTorch in production. The PyTorch organization maintains and supports open source tools for efficient inference like pytorch/serve, job management pytorch/torchx and streaming datasets like pytorch/data.

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Sponsored Solutions Track I

Service Abstractions to Cloud Service Providers: A Tale of Trade-Offs

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Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

Observability AMA

AMAs are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in-depth conversations with QCon speaker Frederic Bryncyk.

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Architecting for Change at Scale

Dark Side of DevOps

Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular: moving things to the earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers, shifting control definitely sounds good.

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"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

Unconference: Hybrid Work Strategies

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

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Building Modern Backends

Panel: Building Modern Backends

Join today’s speakers in an open panel conversation about modern backends and the languages used to build them. Our panelists today come from backgrounds focused on high performance, legacy modernization, and low latency. The speakers span a variety of software languages and industries.

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Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Sprinkling eBPF Onto Your Observability

When talking about Observability in 2022 there is no way around eBPF. However, eBPF is often seen as magic dust that can be sprinkled into infrastructure and magically do anything, when the reality is much more complicated.

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MLOps

Real-Time Machine Learning: Architecture and Challenges

Fresh data beats stale data for machine learning applications. This talk discusses the value of fresh data as well as different types of architecture and challenges of online prediction.  

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Sponsored Solutions Track I

Building Agile Data Architectures in Support of Digital Twins and Data Products

Agile software development and elastic cloud foundations have enabled on-demand expansion of compute functions from real-time processing to Machine Learning at scale but Data has been left behind.

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Architecting for Change at Scale

Stress Free Change Validation at Netflix

How do you gain confidence that a system modification does what it’s supposed to do? A refactoring should not cause a functional change, whereas a feature modification should cause a specific kind of change.

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"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

Leveraging Hybrid One-on-Ones for Better Connections

One of the most difficult challenges to overcome in a hybrid or remote work environment is the lack of social connection between team members—and worse, the often insufficient time that managers spend individually with their reports.

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Building Modern Backends

Data Mesh: Are We There Yet?

Standing at an inflection point is a magical experience. It’s where we look at what has come before, learn from it, and choose a new path. Data Mesh has motivated many organizations to stand at an inflection point of their approach to data.

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Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future

Infrastructure as code enables us to automate and manage all sorts of infrastructure, from on-premises virtual machines to cloud resources, and everything in between.

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MLOps

Declarative Machine Learning: A Flexible, Modular and Scalable Approach for Building Production ML Models

Building ML solutions from scratch is challenging because of a variety of reasons: the long development cycles of writing low level machine learning code and the fast pace of state-of-the-art ML methods to name a few.

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Sponsored Solutions Track I

Our Journey Into High Performance and Reliable Document Databases with RavenDB

When I started at Kobo, we needed to look beyond the relational and into document databases.

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Sponsored Solutions Track II

Engineering an API First Product

The technical decisions that go into the development of an application for the web are broad and complex.

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Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

eBPF AMA w/ Frederic Branczyk & Jim Barton

AMAs are an informal gatherings for Q&A. Bring your questions for in-depth conversations with QCon speakers Frederic Branczyk and Jim Barton.

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Architecting for Change at Scale

Log4Shell Response Patterns & Learnings From Them

In early December 2021, rumors about a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Log4j began circulating on social media, dubbed Log4Shell. Over the next three days, those rumors were confirmed and the immense scope of the vulnerability became clear.

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"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

The Future of Work: How Flexibility Unlocks Potential for People and Organizations

The last two years created a massive discontinuity in how we work, and now the debate rages: are we going back to the way things were, or investing to move forward?

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Building Modern Backends

Leveraging Determinism

Determinism is a very powerful concept when paired with fast business logic. We discuss both intuitive and not-so-obvious architecture choices that can be made to dramatically scale and simplify systems with these properties.

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Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Panel: Languages of Infrastructure

Join us for a moderated panel from our speakers about the future of languages of Infrastructure, YAML, Infrastructure as Code, and more. We will have an online form for you to fill out questions in advance as you hear the talks throughout the day. 

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MLOps

Unconference: MLOps

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

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Sponsored Solutions Track I

Optimal Data Storage Choices - Data Lakes vs Databases

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Sponsored Solutions Track II

Open Source Your Software Development Lifecycle

Open source software is increasingly becoming the number one choice for software developers worldwide because it's considered best in class for its improved security, extensibility and customization, and high-quality tooling.

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Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

Data Pipeline AMA w/ Sid Anand & Allen Wang

AMAs are an informal gatherings for Q&A. Bring your questions for in-depth conversations with QCon speakers Sid Anand & Allen Wang.

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Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Do you find yourself asking how do we ensure teams are aligned, working together, and delivering value to the organization all while continuing to find optimization opportunities over time? How do we build intentional resilience, predictability and agility?

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"Just" Engineering Culture

Generous, High Fidelity Communication Is the Key to a Safe, Effective Team

A team's ability to communicate effectively and disagree productively is directly related to its resilience towards incidents and interruptions.

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Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

API Evolution Without Versioning

Versioning is usually the first–and too often, the only–technique architects reach for when imagining a breaking change to an API’s interface. Based on my experience managing the evolution of a public API, I’ve recently cataloged several alternative techniques and their tradeoffs.

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Green Tech

DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations

Introducing the track, this talk will define terminology and introduce the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems.

Track:
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Unconference: Microservices

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

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Sponsored Solutions Track III

Performance Testing Java Applications

Every so often, you’ll read a performance benchmark (of a Java or other application), with bold claims for how well X performs compared to Y.

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Sponsored Solutions Track IV

A Million People want a Million Things and They Want Them Now: How to Meet Personalised User Demands in Realtime

As the amount of data in Fintech and cryptocurrency applications has increased, Kafka has become the norm for wrangling this surge at speed and scale. However, the need to send personalized data streams to users has become paramount.

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Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Modeling Patterns for Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is not about new cool technologies, it’s a mindset shift and requires the awareness and understanding of customer needs.

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"Just" Engineering Culture

Panel: "Just" Engineering Culture

The hardest part of technology is rarely the tech itself. Systems are designed, used, and operated by people. People make mistakes, but they are also critical to keeping systems safe and reliable.

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Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

What API Product Managers Need

With thousands of APIs being built across the industry, serving millions of developers worldwide, and driving billions in revenue, there is a need to manage APIs as products. Building great API products requires both building technically sound APIs and creating an API experience to match.

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Green Tech

The Zen of Green Software: Finding Balance in the Sustainable Growth Journey

As businesses continue to evolve their operations to meet consumer demands and remain profitable, reliance on the IT sector will only grow. Today, it’s estimated that this sector contributes around 3% of global CO2 emissions, on par with the aviation industry.

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Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!

Dark matter and dark energy are mysterious concepts from astrophysics that are used to explain observations of distant stars and galaxies.

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Sponsored Solutions Track III

Engineering Considerations for Running Machine Learning Models at the Edge: Application in Body Scanning for eCommerce

This talk will review the engineering considerations to support the operation of body scanning machine learning models to evaluate the usability of images for generating a body double in the Amazon shopping application.

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Sponsored Solutions Track IV

How to Build Reliable Systems Under Unpredictable Conditions

Today's success of businesses depends on their systems' stability and reliability. Downtimes are painful: They cause you headaches and cost your business money. Providing reliable services to your customers is essential to success.

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Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

Chaos Engineering AMA w/ Haley Tucker, Casey Rosenthall, & Christina Yakomin

AMAs are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in-depth conversations with QCon speakers Haley Tucker, Casey Rosenthall, and Christina Yakomin.

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Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

AMA: Optimizing Teams

Transformation is needed and hard. Many companies have had starts and stops, made great progress, made limited progress, had major and minor setbacks and some haven’t even started.

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"Just" Engineering Culture

Unconference: Engineering Culture

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

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Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix

GraphQL is steadily gaining popularity as an API technology choice for Client to Server communication. However, it can be daunting to realize the benefits of GraphQL without significant investment.

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Green Tech

Efficient Language and Library Use to Reduce Carbon

Rust is a younger systems programming language that can have small memory footprint, low CPU utilization, offer low latencies and have small application sizes.

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Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Orchestration vs Choreography, A Guide To Composing Your Monolith

Microservices promise rapid evolution, operational independence, and technological freedom but come with imperceptible drag factors. Left unchecked, this drag leads to distributed balls of mud – hard to operate, evolve and maintain.

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Sponsored Solutions Track III

Kubernetes and LaunchDarkly; The Junction of Deploy and Software

Teams are leveraging Kubernetes (and other container based technologies) to improve the speed at which they ship and deploy applications, however, Kubernetes still largely focuses on solving these problems through infrastructure concepts.

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Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

DevOps AMA w/ Brandon Byars

AMAs are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in-depth conversations with QCon speaker Brandon Byars.

Track:
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Unconference: Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

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"Just" Engineering Culture

Recipes for Blameless Accountability

Building a culture of continuous improvement requires that teams value psychological safety, blamelessness, and admitting error. This can sometimes feel in conflict with an organization's desire to see accountability and ownership of the work.

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Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

[Panel] Who Cares About Your API?

Who cares about your API?  Everyone. DevOps has shown us that when developers care about operations, they write better software.  What other viewpoints should developers consider when they're building software?

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Green Tech

Tesla's Virtual Power Plant

The Tesla Energy Platform uses software to give control to customers and utilities when unexpected events happen, such as grid outages, severe weather events, or energy demand peaks.

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Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

[Recording] Overcomplicated Architecture: Scaling Bottleneck

As a digital scale-up continues to gain momentum and grow rapidly, one of the key determining factors of success is how quickly they can evolve their product. The business desires to push features to production as fast as possible and prove value to its customers.

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Sponsored Solutions Track III

Understanding Analytics and Data-driven Decision Making

Understanding Analytics and Data-driven Decision Making

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Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Architecting Your Data Platform Across Clusters, Regions, and Clouds

Data platform teams are increasingly challenged with accessing multiple data stores that are separated from compute engines, such as Spark, Presto, TensorFlow or PyTorch.

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Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Navigating Complex Environments and Evolving Relationships

Organizations evolve. Industry tools and practices change. Individuals have a wide array of opportunities.

Track:
"Just" Engineering Culture

How Did It Make Sense at the Time? Understanding Incidents As They Occurred, Not as They Are Remembered

When we encounter undesirable outcomes, there is a natural instinct to look back, find something that went wrong, and fix it.

Track:
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

Unconference: Modern APIs

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

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Green Tech

Panel: DevSusOps

Many have called sustainability the challenge of our lifetime. The DevSusOps Panel pulls together expert practitioners at the very forefront of sustainability thought leadership for a practical conversation about what's happening in the space today.

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Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Untrusted Execution: Attacking the Cloud Native Supply Chain

Should we trust the code we run in production? Not if a motivated attacker can compromise our system’s complex supply chains. While hardened runtimes and detection can mitigate some zero day attacks, malicious internal threat actors and software implants are much harder to detect.

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Sponsored Solutions Track III

Are Programming languages... *Actually* Languages?

Spoiler: proooooooobably not… But Second Language Acquisition and Tech Skill Building share a *lot* of similarities. Despite their best efforts, people regularly stumble in their language-learning AND Dev/DevOps journeys. Why is this, and what can we do better?

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Sponsored Solutions Track IV

A Guide to the Event-Native World of Open Standards: AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, and Shared Signals & Events

More and more, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is being adopted by organizations.

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

GraphQL AMA w/Tejas Shikhare

AMAs are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in-depth conversations with QCon speaker Tejas Shikhare.

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Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

[Recording] How to Win as a Tech Team in a New Reality That Feels Like a Mad Max Movie?

Most of us can’t remember how we worked before the pandemic hit. I remember I used to catch a train to get to work every day at Nike’s European headquarters in Hilversum, Netherlands. We were already a distributed team and had a fantastic infrastructure to connect with colleagues worldwide.

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"Just" Engineering Culture

Reckoning with the Harm We Do: In Search of Restorative Just Culture in Software and Web Operations

“Psychological Safety” and “Blameless” postmortems are not enough. We’ve heard that we need a “Just Culture” but does that matter if your people are “stressed, exhausted, depleted, spent, drained”?

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Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

Sidecars, eBPF and the Future of Service Mesh

Controversy over the future of service meshes and their architectures is swirling. This is a vital discussion as enterprise migration to microservice and Kubernetes-based architectures continue. This talk incorporates the latest community developments to explore what the future looks like.

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Green Tech

Unconference: Green Tech

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

Track:
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Panel: Building Performant Microservice Architectures

Microservices improve cognitive load, velocity, isolation, and scalability. They also introduce complexity, increased reliance on the network, observability challenges, and, often, request latency.

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Sponsored Solutions Track III

Discover Inspirational Insights in Motivational Sports Speeches Using Speech-to-Text

Inspirational sports speeches have motivated and reinvigorated folks for years. Whether you’re a developer or an athlete, they’ve withstood the journey because even the smartest, the bravest, and the most resilient need some encouragement on occasion.

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Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Bringing Green, Sustainable Software Solutions Into the Enterprise

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Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

Azure Cosmos DB AMA w/ Mei-Chin Tsai & Vinod Sridharan

AMAs are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in-depth conversations with QCon speakers Mei-Chin Tsai and Vinod Sridharan.

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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service

Amazon DynamoDB is a cloud database service that provides consistent performance at any scale. Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on DynamoDB for its fundamental properties: consistent performance, availability, durability, and a fully managed serverless experience.

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Effective SRE

The Endgame of SRE

The containers are deployed and the builds are green. Yaml flows through the system, linted, reviewed, tested, and shipped with ease and regularity. Our intrepid SRE finds themself at a crossroads. The infrastructure is great but teams still struggle to maintain error budgets.

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Practical Security

A Big Dashboard of Problems

We have all heard "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" in medicine, but the security industry isn't so sure. This talk explores the forefront of simple and effective preventative strategies.

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Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Everyone Can Be a Full-Stack Engineer

Serverless infrastructure makes it easier than ever to eliminate the boundary between frontend and backend. When engineers own the entire stack, they can focus less on rebuilding the same infrastructure and more on what matters: the user experience.

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Staff+ Engineer Path

The Secret to Finding Impactful Projects to Land a Staff-Plus Engineer Role

So, you want to be a Staff-Plus Engineer at your organization. Are you one of a hundred engineers vying for that big new shiny project to get you there?

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Sponsored Solutions Track V

Scaling From 2K Engineers to 12K Engineers and 10K Deploys per Day

In times of austerity, efficiency concerns are greater in companies that want to continue growing solidly. Everyone discusses the best approaches for scalability, resiliency, governance, and growth.

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Sponsored Solutions Track VI

[Workshop] Targeting and Shipping - Building Features with LaunchDarkly

In the application and infrastructure world we are used to the idea that when you deploy code out to infrastructure, that’s also when it's released to users. LaunchDarkly changes this by giving you the ability to ship code, and release the features within it to users when you’re ready.

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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed Up Our Servers

Honeycomb is the state of the art in observability: customers send us lots of data and then compose complex, ad-hoc queries. Most are simple, some are not. Some are REALLY not; this load is both complex, spontaneous, and urgent.

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Effective SRE

Did the Chaos Test Pass?

People used to ask me all the time how to figure out if their chaos test has “passed,” and I’d always say “well, that’s a loaded question.” To confirm that a chaos test “passed,” we need to do verification of hypotheses - sometimes you’re trying to prove some system behavior occurred in response

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Practical Security

Scaling Defenses Amidst Evolving Threat Landscape

Security services that defend against malicious or fraudulent traffic operate in an unpredictable and constantly evolving threat landscape. The dynamic nature of attack traffic means that as attacks evolve, our defenses must evolve too.

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Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript

When developing modern APIs, there a few options to choose from. REST is not a standard  but instead style. Trust is constantly broken between the API and client. gRPC and GraphQL provide standards but require complex tooling.

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Staff+ Engineer Path

How Community Engagement Can Boost Your Staff-Plus Career

How does someone become a successful Staff-Plus Engineer? It is probably a mix of technical skills and having the right opportunities. But what if you don't have access to the best opportunities or the right contacts?

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Sponsored Solutions Track V

Tailor Your Processes to be as Data-Driven as Your Systems

Engineering leaders recognize the importance of building observability into their software systems. Through testing, monitoring, and detailed reporting, it’s possible to thoroughly understand what’s working and what isn’t. We always know when our code is working – why not our teams?

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Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

AMA w/ Adrian Cockcroft

AMAs are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in-depth conversations with QCon speaker Adrian Cockcroft.

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully-managed, multi-tenant, distributed, shared-nothing, horizontally scalable database that provides planet-scale capabilities and multi-model APIs for Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Gremlin, Tables, and the Core (SQL) APIs.

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Effective SRE

[Panel] SRE: Is it Working?

How does SRE mature from a craft with a wide range of skills and levels of expertise to a mature discipline? In the Panel SRE: Is it Working?, we bring together all of today’s speakers and rethink/discuss original assumptions of what SRE is and dive into how we believe SRE is evolving.

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Practical Security

Vulnerability Inbox Zero

You have a vulnerability problem. You run a scanner. Now you have two problems - vulnerabilities and a mess of scanner results to process.

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Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

What the Data Says: Emerging Technical Trends in Front-End and How They Affect You

Over the last 30 years of web development a predictable cycle has appeared in the adoption, commoditization and eventual abstraction of major new technical trends in web development.

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Staff+ Engineer Path

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Should you be a manager? Or should you be an engineer? The old wisdom used to say that you should pick a lane and stick to it, but this is bad advice.

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

From Zero to A Hundred Billion: Building Scalable Real Time Event Processing At DoorDash

At DoorDash, real time events are an important data source to gain insight into our business but building a system capable of handling billions of real time events is challenging.

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Effective SRE

Rethinking Reliability: What You Can (and Can't) Learn From Incidents

This talk presents research collected from the VOID—an open database of public incident reports. Containing over 2,000 reports for almost 700 organizations, the database allows for more structured review and research about software-related incident reporting.

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Practical Security

Panel: Practical Security

Join us to continue the conversation around the track theme of practical security, the panel discusses current and future challenges and security issues facing security engineers, practitioners and organizations.

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Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Panel: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Each of the track speakers joins together in a panel about how the front-end is changing in today’s high velocity, domain-focused teams.

Track:
Staff+ Engineer Path

Unraveling Techno-Solutionism: How I Fell Out of Love with “Ethical” Machine Learning

As a Staff-Plus Engineer, I’ve had plenty of learning moments in my career where I realized my view of a problem was hindered by my own desire to solve it with technology.

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Sponsored Solutions Track V

Building Resilient Microservices: The Hard Parts of a Distributed Architecture

Building resilience is a complex theme in any distributed architecture; even for modern cloud-native applications, resources could be temporal, the network is unreliable, and there are always communication challenges between services and broken dependencies.

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data.

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Effective SRE

The Eternal Sunshine of the Toil-Less Prod

One of the most important decisions in building an SRE practice is what kind of work should be assigned to the SRE team, and in what percentages.

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Practical Security

Privacy-First Re-Architecture

The tech industry grew organically the last few decades. We built new innovations on top of old. We evolved systems and technologies to meet new challenges. Decisions of the past became assumptions of today.

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Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Enhance: SSR for Web Components

Building web apps is often characterized as painful, complex, and time consuming. There are many tools, libraries, frontend frameworks, and opinions about how to fix that problem… but they come with a catch. The frontend ecosystem is fractured into incompatible niches.

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Staff+ Engineer Path

The Staff-Plus Engineer Path Panel

In this panel we will bring experienced Staff-Plus Engineers to discuss key topics to help you in your career path: