QCon San Francisco 2023 is a wrap!
Thank you to the 970+ senior software engineers, software architects, and team leads who joined us at QCon San Francisco 2023. Take a look at the conference highlights. Catch up with the session videos you missed. See what people had to say on social about #QConSF. Over 120 software leaders driving innovation and change shared their practical insights and use cases to help attendees validate their technical roadmap. QCon San Francisco attendees told us how the event helped them find solutions to their challenges, adopt the right software innovations and practices, and reduce uncertainty on which technologies should be part of their roadmap. Join us at our next QCon San Francisco international software development conference (November 18-22, 2024).
QCon San Francisco focused on emerging software trends and innovations
Technical talks from over 120 software domain experts focused on innovation and change. Talks focused on patterns & practices, not products and pitches. Attendees learned implementable ideas they could apply after the event.
- Green Tech
- Rust
- WASM
- eBPF
- Machine Learning @ Edge
- Scalable Configuration Management
- Infrastructure Unification
- Cue Lang
- MLOps
- Team Topologies
- Staff+ Engineer Path
- Service Meshes
- Microfrontends
- Multicloud Practices
- Software Ethics
- Feature Engineering
- Mode Inference/Prediction
- Observability Practices
- Server-Driven Frontend
- Decarbonizing the Grid
- Operator Pattern for
Non-Clustered Resources - Patterns & Heuristics
Enabling Fast Flow - Open Policy Agent
- Java 17 (LTS)
- Paved Road
- DevSecOps
- DevOps in Practice
- Kubernetes Strategies
- Observability / Telemetry
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Chaos Engineering
- Operating Microservices
- Data Engineering
- GraphQL
- Go Techniques & Patterns
- DevEx
- Reactive
- Performance
- Macroservices
- Serverless: Orchestration &
Choreography - Cloud Architectures
- Patterns for Scale
- IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Polyglot Software Practices
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Engineering is about solving problems.. Sometimes we solve these problems by writing code 😀 .. Thank you @randyshoup for the beautiful workshop and energetic presentation and collaboration between the attendees. #QConSF #SoftwareEngineer #Coding
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"This is a conference for software practitioners, by practitioners" Loving the #QConSF opening from @wesreisz and Pia. We're always open to feedback on the sessions, nd we have lightning talks and 1&1s this year!
Daniel Bryant
@danielbryantuk
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@GMilano
#QConSF Attending the Interesting Track today Architectures You’ve Always Wonder About
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@SteefJan
Fascinating talk by @jorandirkgreef at @QConSF #QConSF
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@BenLinders
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2023 Topics and Tracks
Behind every QCon is a Program Committee of senior software leaders who curate the essential topics you need to know about. A track is a peer-curated day of talks around important topics in software. Take a look at the QCon San Francisco 2023 topics and tracks.
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Oct 02
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
The Architectures You've Always Wondered About track explores real-world examples of innovative companies pushing the limits with modern software systems. Speakers shares stories of how they have scaled their systems to handle massive amounts of traffic, data, and complexity in some of world's most recognized software shops.
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks, Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, & QCon SF 2023 PC Chair, Previously Platform Architect @VMware
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Oct 02
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures
OLTP/OLAP DBs, caches, object stores, search engines, graph DBs, data streams, vector DBs, and the like represent the many forms data takes to be suitable to its many uses. Come learn about new technologies, practices, and trends shaping the way you will work with data.
Sid Anand
Chief Architect @Datazoom, Committer/PMC Apache Airflow, Previously: Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, Etsy, & PayPal
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Oct 02
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML
Provisioning infrastructure through machine readable configuration has been a key enabler of the cloud and the growth of automation. But to move away from manual and non repeatable work we have instead ended up with megabytes, sometimes gigabytes of YAML and similar languages, with a variety of templating and generation tools. A new generation of tools is moving away from this YAML sprawl towards code and other approaches. This track explores a variety of these approaches, with talks both from practitioners and from those who have brought new tools and processes into creation because they have a strong vision beyond the status quo.
Justin Cormack
CTO @Docker
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Oct 02
Staff+ Engineering Skills
Come learn from practitioners putting the key concepts noted in Tanya Reilly’s "The Staff Engineer’s Path" and Will Larson’s "Staff Engineer" into a digestible format with helpful takeaways.
Krys Flores
Staff Engineer @Carta, Previously at Lob, Simple Habit, and Nordstromrack.com|HauteLook
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Oct 03
Designing for Resilience
Anything your system depends on can fail, and eventually will. Build systems that continue to perform successfully in the presence of failures.
Javier Fernandez-Ivern
Staff Software Engineer @Netflix with over 20 years in Software Engineering
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Oct 03
Platform Engineering Done Well
If done well, platform engineering can help organizations to deliver software faster, more reliably, and more securely. We'll discuss the best practices for building and maintaining a successful platform to create one that is scalable, adaptable, and secure.
Daniel Bryant
Java Champion, Co-author of "Mastering API Architecture", Independent Technical Consultant, and InfoQ News Manager
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Oct 03
Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod
Modern machine learning (ML) is a rapidly evolving field. We'll explore the latest trends in ML, focusing on three key areas: generative AI (GenAI), trust, and path to production. You'll learn how these areas are shaping the future of ML, and how they can be used to build more powerful and reliable ML systems
Hien Luu
Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash & Author of Beginning Apache Spark 3, Speaker and Conference Committee Chair
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Oct 03
JVM Trends: Charting the Future of Productivity & Performance
Dive deep into the transformative potential of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as it consistently reshapes the realm of high-performance applications. This track is set to unravel the most recent breakthroughs and best practices in JVM development. Our journey will pivot around three foundational pillars: system optimization, developer productivity, and the evolution towards cloud-native transitions.
Monica Beckwith
Java Champion, Author of JVM Performance Engineering, JVM Performance Expert @Microsoft, First Lego League Coach, Advocate for STEAM + kids
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Oct 04
Architecting for the Cloud
Cloud is a mindset - not a destination. The elasticity and plethora of services available are double-edged swords: used well, you can really accelerate the pace of innovation for your company - but left unchecked, you can explode the cost and complexity in your ecosystem.
Khawaja Shams
Co-Founder & CEO @Momento, previously @NASA and @Amazon
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Oct 04
Deep Tech: Pushing the Boundaries of Hardware+Software
Deep tech is used to describe technologies that are evolving at the hardware level to support, refine, or extend the capabilities of our familiar system software stacks, and have the potential to revolutionize industries or create new ones. This track will explore the latest trends in deep tech, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, IoT/Edge, security, quantum computing, and more. Speakers will discuss the challenges and opportunities of these technologies, and how they are being used to solve real-world problems.
Allison Randal
Board Member @sfconservancy.org, openinfra.dev, and openusage.org
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Oct 04
Emerging Trends in the Frontend
It’s a fascinating time to be a frontend developer! We are seeing the rise of new frameworks that are driving a deeper integration of client and server allowing frontend developers to better leverage the advantages of both.
Jeff Wagner
Director of Engineering @Snowflake
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Oct 04
Lessons in Building Organization Resilience
As we have all come to learn, the only constant is change. Speakers will not only cover how best to handle changes and disruptions, but how to build on them, creating opportunities for you and your teams to emerge stronger than before.
Courtney Hemphill
Partner & Head of Product, Engineering, and Design (PXEL) @WestMonroe
Keynotes
Learn actionable insights to help you adopt the right technologies and practices.
Top Sessions at QCon San Francisco 2023
Top 5 best voted
How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems
Joseph Lynch
Distributed Systems Engineer @Netflix Working on Online Datastores and Data Abstractions
Designing Fault-Tolerant Software with Control System Transparency
Jon Moore
Staff Software Engineer @Stripe with over 35 years of software engineering experience across both academia and industry
NIST 800-207A: Implementing Zero Trust Architecture
Zack Butcher
Founding Engineer @Tetrateio & NIST co-author on security, prev core services @GoogleCloud
Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at CapitalOne
George Mao
Senior Distinguished Engineer @Capital One Leading All Things Serverless, Ex-AWS WW Serverless Tech Lead
How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap
Ben Hartshorne
Principal Engineer @Honeycomb, Building Operable Systems with Resilience and Business Value
Top 5 most attended
Managing 238M Memberships at Netflix
Surabhi Diwan
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Orchestrating Resilience: Building Modern Asynchronous Systems
Sai Pragna Etikyala
Technical Lead @Twilio
Things Every Staff+ Engineer Should Know
Joy Ebertz
Principal Engineer @Split, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Box
AWS Lambda Under the Hood
Mike Danilov
Senior Principal Engineer @AWS Lambda
How Do We Talk to Each Other? How Surfacing Communication Patterns in Organizations Can Help You Understand and Improve Your Resilience
Nora Jones
Founder and CEO @jeli_io, Founder of Learning From Incidents (LFI) Online Community and Conference
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