Track host
About the track
Learn how engineering organizations are building internal platforms that deliver real outcomes: faster delivery, safer operations, and reduced developer cognitive load. This track explores the architectural, organizational, and operational trade-offs behind successful platform engineering initiatives, including balancing standardization with flexibility at scale.
Sessions in this track
Wednesday 18 November. 5 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Pacific DEKJ Session Why Most Platform Teams Fail: The Adoption Problem Nobody Wants to Own Shweta Vohra Architecture Leader @Booking.com, Author of "Decoding Platform Engineering Patterns" & "Dear Software and AI Architect", 24+ Years Experience Building Cloud, Platform, and AI Systems We have all seen the moment: the platform goes live, the launch deck looks sharp, the portal is polished, the golden paths are documented, and yet teams quietly continue doing things the old way. Not always because the platform is bad, but because adoption was assumed, not owned. 11:45 Pacific DEKJ Session The Rise of Agent Enablement: Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams. Patrick Debois AI Product Engineer @Tessl, Co-Author of the "DevOps Handbook", Content Curator at AI Native Developer Community In 2009, every big enterprise said "continuous delivery won't work here." In 2026, the same rooms say "the dark factory won't work here." It was never about the technology being ready. It's about the organization being ready. Readiness is a socio-technical problem, not a technical one. 13:35 Pacific DEKJ Session Building a Migration Platform: Moving 100+ Netflix RDBMS Workloads to Aurora PostgreSQL Ammar Khaku, Kshitij Gupta In late 2024, Netflix made a bet: consolidate the vast majority of our relational database use cases onto a single engine: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. 14:45 Pacific DEKJ Session Platform Engineering’s Second Act: From Vending Machine to Passport Control Smruti Patel, Alex Mann Three years ago on the QCon SF stage, I made the case for “Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability” as the pillars of a successful platform. Those pillars haven't moved. AI has just rewritten what each one requires, and the platform team's job along with it. 15:55 Pacific DEKJ Session Decoupling Local Development from Remote Infrastructure Details coming soon.$2,835, Conference (3 days). Current pricing ends September 8th. All pass options.
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.