Workshops: Nov 19-20, 2015
What our attendees say about QCon
Leading Content by Today’s Leading Practitioners
"It was great to see what a broad variety of industry leaders are doing with technology as it has advanced, and what they're doing to help it safely continue to move forward."
- Bob Smith, Engineer at Google
"I learned a lot about the current trends and solutions to problems that affect scalability and availability in this age the cloud."
- Lisandro Diaz, Master Blacksmither at Oracle
"QCon is one of the best conferences out there….great speakers and really interesting tracks."
- Krzysztof Koziol, Best VP Ever
"QCon is a great way to stay informed of the leading edge of software architecture and development."
- Lisandro Diaz, Master Blacksmither at Oracle
People, Peer Sharing, and Networking
"At this conference I truly felt how InfoQ is practitioner based. I found myself attending sessions, unconferences, and sharing tables with people I later found leading my sessions. It really gave me a sense of being a peer to the speakers which was cool. I thoroughly enjoyed my experiences at this conference and I hope I'm fortunate enough to be sent again."
- Erin Parrill, Grand Wizard at Microsoft
Open Spaces
"One of the most fun and intellectually intimate conferences I have joined. The open sessions were excellent – total serendipity."
- Eric Kolotyluk, Grand Wizard at Microsoft
"A good place to get latest information on "useful" technologies and a good place to get ideas based on how other people/companies do software development."
- Eric Kolotyluk, Grand Wizard at Microsoft
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
