Jeremy Edberg discusses how Netflix designs their systems and deployment processes to help the service survive both catastrophic events like zone and regional outages and less catastrophic events like network latency and random instance death.
Conference: Nov 16-18, 2015
Workshops: Nov 19-20, 2015
Workshops: Nov 19-20, 2015
Software is changing the world
QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community.
A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday Nov 16
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Silicon Valley to Beijing: Exploring some of the world's most intrigiuing architectures
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Applied Machine Learning
How to start using machine learning and data science in your environment today. Latest and greatest best practices.
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Browser as a platform (Realizing HTML5)
Exciting new standards like Service Workers, Push Notifications, and WebRTC are making the browser a formidable platform.
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Modern Languages in Practice
The rise of 21st century languages: Go, Rust, Swift
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Org Hacking
Our most innovative companies reimagining the org structure
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Design Thinking
Level up your approach to problem solving and leave everything better than you found it.
Tuesday Nov 17
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Containers in Practice
Build resilient, reactive systems one service at a time.
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Architecting for Failure
Your system will fail. Take control before it takes you with it.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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The Amazing Potential of .NET Open Source
From language design in the open to Rx.NET, there is amazing potential in an Open Source .NET
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Optimizing You
Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
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Unlearning Performance Myths
Lessons on the reality of performance, scale, and security
Wednesday Nov 18
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Streaming Data @ Scale
Real-time insights at Cloud Scale & the technologies that make them happen!
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Taking Java to the Next Level
Modern, lean Java. Focuses on topics that push Java beyond how you currently think about it.
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The Dark Side of Security
Lessons from your enemies
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Taming Distributed Architecture
Reactive architectures, CAP, CRDTs, consensus systems in practice
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JavaScript Everywhere!
Javascript is Everywhere. Learn why
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Culture Reimagined
Lessons on building highly effective organizations
Learn from leading engineering innovators
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Keynotes
Chief Systems Architect at Uber (Co-founder of Voxer) skilled at building and scaling highly available distributed systems.
Keynote
The Future of Build vs. Buy
The Future of Build vs. Buy
Principle Researcher @Microsoft who relentlessly advocates for innovation and design. Well known pioneer in the human-computer...
Keynote
Avoiding the Big Crash
Avoiding the Big Crash
Leads product management @ShapeSecurity whose technology offers advanced security from malware, botnets, and scripting attacks. Previous...
Workshops
Workshop Day 1 / Thursday |
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Hands on with Apache Spark
by Hien Luu 9:00am-4:00pm |
.NET Performance Deep-Dive
by Ben Watson 9:00am-12:00pm |
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[SOLD OUT] Docker for Java Developers
by Arun Gupta 9:00am-4:00pm |
Building your first iOS Application
by Naveen Gavini 9:00am-12:00pm |
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[SOLD OUT] Tech Lead Skills for Developers
by Patrick Kua 9:00am-4:00pm |
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Modern Software Modeling and Design
by Harry Brumleve & Emmanuel Gomez 9:00am-4:00pm |
Building your first Android app
by Carl Rice 1:00pm-4:00pm |
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Data Visualization: JS Charting with D3
by Mark Daggett 9:00am-4:00pm |
[SOLD OUT] Effective Product Engineering Manager
by Byron Ma 1:00pm-4:00pm |
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Java 8
by Adib Saikali & Doug Bateman 9:00am-4:00pm |
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Getting Started with Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry
by Josh Long & Bridget Kromhout 9:00am-4:00pm |
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Workshop Day 2 / Friday |
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[SOLD OUT] Microservices
by Adrian Cockcroft 9:00am-4:00pm |
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Hardcore Go
by Kevin Gillette 9:00am-4:00pm |
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Modern Infrastructure with Terraform & Consul
by Seth Vargo 9:00am-4:00pm |
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Building Android Apps Using RxMobile
by Erik Meijer 9:00am-4:00pm |
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BUILT FOR USE: Generating Meaningful Requirements
by Joe Natoli 9:00am-4:00pm |
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Understanding Latency & Application Responsiveness
by Gil Tene 9:00am-4:00pm |
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[SOLD OUT] React.js Fundamentals
by Michael Jackson 9:00am-4:00pm |
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Building Smarter Applications with Spark & H20
by Amy Wang & Michal Malohlava 9:00am-4:00pm |
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SF Venue
Hyatt Regency - San Francisco
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
The hotel is located right on the Embarcadero waterfront with stunning views all around and close to popular attractions, events, and shopping. The conference venue is at the same location as the hotel.
Address
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco
California
USA 94111
Tel: +1 415 788 1234
Fax: +1 415 398 2567
Website: Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Reservations
QCon has negotiated a room block at the Hyatt Regency. Rates start at $249 plus tax and the cut-off date for reserving inside the room block is October 22, 2015. Rooms may sell out before the cut-off date. You can book your reservation via the custom link at https://resweb.passkey.com/go/QCONSF2015 or via phone by calling the Hyatt at 1-415-788-1234.
Open Space
Every day at QCon San Francisco, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
Why are we doing Open Space?
We’re doing Open Space at QCon because we want this conference to be yours. At QCon, we learn from the best and share with the best.
We come with passions and ideas that we want to share with each other. We want to connect with each other, create community around topics that we’re passionate about.
Social Events
Come attend to mingle and network with other speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.
Things you’ll be enjoying at QCon San Francisco
- Breakfast to kickstart your QCon day
- High quality lunch and snacks with option for vegetarians and gluten free
- Breaks between sessions to network with your peers
- Receptions with drinks and snacks to recap the day
Past Years
by Jeremy Edberg
Speaker Bio:
Jeremy Edberg is currently the Reliability Architect for Netflix, the largest video streaming service in the world. Before that he ran Reddit, an online community for sharing and discussing interesting things on the internet that does more than four billion page views a month. Both run their entire operations on Amazon's EC2.
by Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich surveys interesting developments in the Web platform, analysing emergent trends, and making some predictions.
Speaker Bio:
Brendan Eich is CTO and SVP of Engineering for Mozilla, and widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet’s most widely used programming language.
by Dianne Marsh
Dianne Marsh presents the open source tools used by Netflix to keep the continuous delivery wheels spinning.
Speaker Bio:
Dianne Marsh is a Director of Engineering for Netflix in Los Gatos, CA, where she leads a team responsible for tools and systems used by nearly all engineers in the company for continuous integration, delivery and deployment to the AWS cloud.
by Gilad Bracha
Gilad Bracha explains how to distinguish FP hype from reality and to apply key ideas of FP in non-FP languages, separating the good parts of FP from its unnecessary cultural baggage.
Speaker Bio:
Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a software engineer at Google where he works on Dart. Previously, he was a VP at SAP Labs, a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence, and a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun.
by Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey presents the motivation, design and use of the Clojure core.async library, the reasons for choosing the CSP approach and how it helps to structure applications.
Speaker Bio:
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software designer with over 25 years of experience in various domains.
by Martin Thompson
Martin Thompson discusses Java, concurrency, operating systems, and functional programming in the context of designing and testing high-performance systems.
Speaker Bio:
Martin Thompson is a high-performance and low-latency specialist, with experience gained over two decades working on large scale transactional and big-data systems.
by Eric Evans
Eric Evans discusses three DDD patterns helping embedding CAP tradeoffs inside the domain model: Aggregates, Domain Events and Bounded Contexts.
Speaker Bio:
Eric Evans is a specialist in domain modeling and design in large business systems. Since the early 1990s, he has worked on many projects developing large business systems with objects and has shared his experience in the book "Domain-Driven Design," Addison-Wesley 2003.
by Michael Nygard
Michael Nygard explores some of the available loopholes in the CAP theorem helping architects to engineer distributed systems that meet their needs.
Speaker Bio:
Michael has written and co-authored several books, including "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" and the best seller "Release It!", a book about building software that survives the real world.
by Rod Johnson
Rod Johnson shares some of the lessons he learned as an entrepreneur.
Speaker Bio:
Rod Johnson is SVP, Middleware and GM of the SpringSource division at VMware. Spring was based on the code published with Rod's best-selling "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development"(2002).
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