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Top Sessions at QCon Plus
Top 5 best voted
Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix
Tejas Shikhare
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Istio as a Platform for Running Microservices
Eitan Suez
Content Engineer @Tetrate, Previously a technical instructor @VMware and @Pivotal and Principal Consultant @ThoughtWorks
Navigating Complex Environments and Evolving Relationships
Jennifer Davis
Engineering Manager @Google
Leveraging Hybrid One-on-Ones for Better Connections
Alexandra Sunderland
Senior Engineering Manager @fellowapp
The Zen of Green Software: Finding Balance in the Sustainable Growth Journey
Lisa McNally
Head of Cleantech & Sustainability @Thoughtworks
Marco Valtas
Technical Lead for Cleantech and Sustainability @Thoughtworks
Top 5 most attended
Adopting Continuous Delivery at Lyft
Tom Wanielista
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Lyft
From Zero to A Hundred Billion: Building Scalable Real Time Event Processing At DoorDash
Allen Wang
Software Engineer @DoorDash
Dark Side of DevOps
Mykyta Protsenko
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service
Akshat Vig
Principal Engineer NoSQL databases @awscloud
API Evolution Without Versioning
Brandon Byars
North America Head of Technology @thoughtworks
Level-up on emerging trends
Get assurance you're adopting the right patterns and practices
- 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
Learn the emerging trends
Curated trends our Program Committee believes have the most impact in software development.
Explore the use cases
Learn how real-world practitioners are applying the tech to help you solve common problems.
Implement the best practices
Get implementable ideas to shape your projects that last beyond the conference.
I love the variety of topics. It is my annual recap of the technology industry and helps me keep up with what the industry considers modern and state of the art. And mostly I like the fact that people are open about sharing both their successes and failures.
Nikhil Mohan
Senior MTS/ Engineering @Salesforce
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Randy Shoup
Consulting CTO (formerly @eBay, @Google, @Stitch Fix)
Sid Anand
Chief Architect and Head of Engineering @ Datazoom
Staff+ Engineer Path
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia
Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend
Benjamin Dunphy
Founder @EventLoop and Organizer @Reactathon
Architecting for Change at Scale
Haley Tucker
Senior Software Engineer for Productivity Engineering @Netflix
Building Modern Backends
Todd Montgomery
Ex-NASA Researcher and High Performance Distributed Systems Whisperer
Green Tech
Adrian Cockcroft
Former VP Amazon Sustainability Architecture @Amazon
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving
Thomas Betts
Laureate Application Architect @Blackbaud
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow
Courtney Kissler
CTO @zulily
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previously Platform Architect @VMware
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previously Platform Architect @VMware
"Just" Engineering Culture
Michelle Brush
Engineering Manager SRE @Google
Practical Security
Julia Knecht
Manager, Security Platforms Engineering @Netflix
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML
Carmen Andoh
Hacker at @cue_lang, previously @google @golang @travisci
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies
James Stanier
Director of Engineering @Shopify
Effective SRE
Casey Rosenthal
CEO, Co-Founder @verica_io
MLOps
Hien Luu
Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash
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Learn from senior software engineers
Real-world technical talks from software leaders at early adopter companies
Domain leaders
Learn what's next from world-class leaders pushing the boundaries.
Relatable challenges
Learn how senior developers are solving the challenges you face.
Diverse perspectives
Get new ideas and perspectives across multiple domains.
Valuable lessons
Actionable insights from those working on real-world projects.
Time to connect
Intentional time built-in for you to connect with speakers and peers.
No hype
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QCon Plus Track Hosts
Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect @eBay
Haley Tucker
Senior Software Engineer for Productivity Engineering @Netflix
Benjamin Dunphy
Founder @EventLoop and Organizer @Reactathon
Thomas Betts
Senior Principal Software Architect @Blackbaud
James Stanier
Director of Engineering @Shopify
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previously Platform Architect @VMware
Hien Luu
Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash
Michelle Brush
Engineering Manager SRE @Google
Julia Knecht
Manager, Security Platforms Engineering @Netflix
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia
Adrian Cockcroft
Former VP Amazon Sustainability Architecture @Amazon
Casey Rosenthal
CEO, Co-Founder @verica_io
Courtney Kissler
CTO @zulily
Todd Montgomery
Ex-NASA Researcher and High Performance Distributed Systems Whisperer
Carmen Andoh
Open Source Strategy, Programs and Ecosystem Development @Google
QCon provides an opportunity to obtain new ideas and approaches to developing software. I have and would continue recommending QCon to anyone interested in keeping up with the latest trends by learning from those who are defining those trends.
Jeff Hollar
Architect @Cisco
I love the QCon vibe. Everybody is down to earth and open to showing and talking about how they solve real-world complex problems. The speakers are top-notch and represent the state of the art in the industry. I like that there is no product/marketing aspect to the main tracks. I always leave QCon feeling refreshed, and eager to return to work and tackle something new!
Kerrie Clark
Architect @Capital One Finance
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What has always stood out for me has been QCon's commitment to its brand promises. First of all, it's focused on practitioner content. QCon conferences are all about the people that develop and work with future technologies. This starts from the Programming Committee, which comprises practitioners that are authorities in their domain.
Wes Reisz
QCon Plus November 2022 Conference Chair, Co-host of the InfoQ Podcast, Technology Leader, Engineer, & Technical Adviser
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Too many incredible questions to ask & practices to try to improve #QConPlus.
Keynote at #qconplus was spectacular. I loved the slide format from the outset, was engaged by the memory challenges and learned so much.
What you know influences what you can process," rang true. Great advice about how to get better at reading code.
High-profile speakers. I feel like I can trust that the speakers will know their stuff. I also noticed the high percentage of women presenting which I found refreshing. Let's hope other conferences will follow this example.
#qcon has already provoked so much thought in me and I hope all the other attendees. Everyone aims to find quicker ways to deliver value to their consumers. What can we do to get there?
Great content on a variety of subjects practical to my daily work.
It is vendor-neutral, so it isn't slanted. Even the sponsored content didn't feel very salesy. That was nice.
The quality of the content is exceptional.
The speakers are highly knowledgeable about the subject they present and some topics are bleeding edge.
The format is cool (pre-recorded video, the speaker in the chat, time for live questions, etc), timings are OK (we have enough break time to have a life).
The diversity of speakers and attendees was much better than any previous in-person conference. Not sure if that was because it was virtual or the talk selection process or both. But, well done. It was easy to come in and out of talks. There was only a time or two that I switched, but it was easy to do.
QCon Plus is a fantastic event. It brought up the case and situations that we can live in our daily lives as site reliability engineers.
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