Architecting for Agents: Beneath the Loop

QCon San Francisco 2026

Architecting for Agents: Beneath the Loop

Wednesday 18 November · 5 sessions, 50 minutes each

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$2,835, Conference (3 days)
Current pricing ends September 8th

About the track

Agents went from demo to production faster than the engineering practices around them could mature. The agent loop — plan, call tools, reflect, repeat — is the most visible part of an agent system, but it's a small fraction of what's needed to run one reliably and securely. Underneath the loop sits a stack of concerns that frameworks don't solve for you: portability across rapidly obsoleting models, durable state for long-running runs, deployment pipelines that ship daily, runtime sandboxes for code that agents generate and execute, and the observability you need to debug a system that keeps changing its mind. Each is a discipline in its own right, with conventions still being invented. In this track, we'll work through each layer with practitioners shipping agents in production today, drawing out the lessons that turn a compelling demo into a system you can stake a business on.

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$2,835, Conference (3 days). Current pricing ends September 8th. All pass options.

76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon San Francisco 2026 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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Current pricing ends September 8th
$2,835, Conference (3 days)

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