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 3-5, 2014
Tutorials: Nov 1-2, 2014
Tutorials: Nov 1-2, 2014
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, 3 November
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
The newest and biggest Internet architectures
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Real World Functional
Putting functional programming concepts to work in the real world.
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The Future of Mobile
The future of mobile and performance improvements
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Continuous Delivery: From Heroics to Becoming Invisible
Continuous Delivery philosophies, cultures, hiccups, and best practices.
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Unleashing the Power of Streaming Data
This track explores a variety of use-cases, platforms, and techniques for processing and analyzing stream data from the companies deploying them at scale!
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Sponsored Solutions Track I
Tuesday, 4 November
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Engineering for Product Success
Architectures that make products more successful
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Reactive Service Architecture
Reactive, Responsive, Fault Tolerant and More.
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Modern CS In the Real World
How modern CS tackles problems in the real world.
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Applied Machine Learning and Data Science
Understand your big big data!
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Deploying at Scale
Containerizing Applications, Discovering Services, and Deploying to the Grid.
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Sponsored Solutions Track II
Wednesday, 5 November
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Beyond Hadoop
Emerging Big Data Frameworks and Technology
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Scalable Microservice Architectures
This track addresses the ways companies with hundreds of fine-grained web-services (e.g. Netflix, LinkedIn) manage complexity!
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Java at the Cutting Edge
The latest and greatest in the Java ecosystem
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Engineering culture
Successes and failures in creating an engineering culture.
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Next gen HTML5 and JS
How Web Components, the Future of CSS, and more are changing the web.
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Sponsored Solutions Track III
Speakers
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Keynotes
How DevOps and the Cloud Changed Google Engineering
It's no secret that conventional IT is going by the wayside as companies shed their legacy infrastructure and invest in shared resources. Google is riding...
Speaker Bio
Melody Meckfessel leads a team of 200+ engineers responsible for Developer Infrastructure for Google and its Cloud platform. Her team builds highly scalable systems, from IDEs and automated test systems to deployment through Google’s massive production environment. She is a hands-on technical leader with 18 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
Programming Should Be More Than Coding
Writing a program involves three tasks:
- Deciding what the program should do.
- Deciding how the program should do it.
- ...
Speaker Bio
2013 Turing Award Winner for "fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems,” much of the infrastructure implemented in places like Amazon.com is based on his research.
Bruce Schneier Security Keynote
Called a "Security Guru" by The Economist, he is the author of 12 books as well as the famous 'Schneier on Security' blog. He keynoted at QCon NY weeks...
Speaker Bio
Bruce Schneier is a cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, and writer. Called a "security guru" by The Economist, he is the author of 12 books as well as the famous ‘Schneier on Security’ blog. He keynoted at QCon NY weeks after the Snowden leak about prism in 2013 and was one of the top rated keynotes. @schneierblog
Tutorials
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
TBD.
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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