Successful Internet companies are built on a foundation of excellent culture, efficient organization, and solid technology. As a company needs to scale, all of these parts of the foundation need to grow and scale with it. This tutorial will provide a deep dive into modern best practices at innovative companies in Silicon Valley for scaling culture, organization, and technology. Driven primarily by the presenter's experience ranging from small Valley startups to Google and eBay, we will learn about:

• Organizing engineering teams for innovation and velocity Maintaining a culture of learning and risk-taking
• Attracting and retaining excellent engineering talent
• Developing and sustaining effective engineering processes and methodologies
• Architecting scalable, high-quality, resilient software systems

We will conclude with recommendations on how to start implementing changes to your own organizational team structure, processes, and development practices.

This session is about the hard stuff -- managing data in microservices -- and about sharing proven patterns that have been successful at Google, eBay, and Stitch Fix. It begins with a quick tour of some prerequisites for being successful with microservices -- an organization of small teams with well-defined areas of responsibility; processes for test-driven development and continuous delivery; and a DevOps culture of "You Build It, You Run It."

The majority of the session is spent on managing data. It covers the need to isolate a microservice's data store behind the service interface, as well as the various persistence mechanisms for managing data. It discusses using events as a first-class tool in our architectural toolbox. It covers techniques for service extraction from a monolithic database. Then it composes those building blocks to build up patterns for handling shared data, joins, and transactions in a microservice world.

It concludes with lessons learned, as well as suggestions for how you can implement these ideas successfully in your own organization.

Microservices almost seem to be the de facto way to build systems today, but are they always the answer? If they are the answer, what are the challenges you'll face at scale (both from a technical and organizational level)? What are the strategies you should use now that you are effectively building a distributed system? ...or what's the one thing you wish you'd known before you got here? These questions and more will be asked in the Microservices: Pattern's & Practices Ask Me Anything or AMA (a significant portion of the time will be available for the audience to get their questions answered as well). This session joins together many of the conference's most popular sessions speakers with the trackhost from the Microservices track to have a frank and honest discussion on Microservices. Join us to have your Microservices questions answered.

What makes a 10x engineer, or designer, or leader? It turns out that it is a surprisingly small part aptitude -- our skill at a particular task, and a surprisingly large part attitude -- how we go about it. It is far less the contributions of genetics, or education, or circumstance, than it is how we approach challenges, limitations, and opportunities in our work.

Weaving together diverse threads from Carol Dweck's growth mindset, to Daniel Pink's work on motivation, to modern DevOps culture, we will explore the outsized power of attitude. A wonderful consequence is that our ability to make an exceptional impact is more malleable than we often believe, and it is therefore more amenable to our own influence -- to being *engineered*! This talk will particularize these ideas in a software development context -- from focus and attention, to drive and motivation, to honesty and empathy, to trust and forgiveness.

You will take away a number of concrete suggestions to improve and optimize your approach to your own work -- to make yourself a more effective engineer, designer, or leader. You may be surprised at how quickly improvements in your teams, your products, and your systems will follow.

Moderated by Karen Casella, Engineering Leader @Netflix

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is an important topic in our industry, especially in light of changing demographics, globalization, and the competition for talent. Join industry leaders as they discuss the challenges and opportunities of creating and sustaining an inclusive culture and their experiences implementing diversity & inclusion strategies in technical organizations. We’ll explore how and why diversity is important, key challenges the panelists encountered, success stories and ideas for how each of us can help foster a more inclusive technical organization. Following the panel discussion, join us for the QCon closing reception, where we will continue the discussion about D&I, while networking with fellow conference attendees.