QCon Plus November
2020 Videos

Over 1,450 senior software engineers, architects, and team leads attended QCon Plus in November 2020 to discover which new technologies and practices they should adopt. Get inspired with actionable insights, and catch up on conversations from a global software community by watching the sessions from the first edition of the virtual event.

The QCon Plus presentations will be available for public access on InfoQ.com. Below you can find the publication calendar:

Week of November 23, 2020

How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation

PRESENTER(S) Jennifer Shin, Stephen Spalding

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Week of January 25, 2021

Building Latency Sensitive User Facing Analytics via Apache Pinot

PRESENTER(S) Chinmay Soman

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Building Tech at Presidential Scale

PRESENTER(S) Dan Woods

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Week of February 01, 2021

Finding The “I” within Inclusion

PRESENTER(S) Wade Davis, Karen Casella

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Navigating the New Remote Normal

PRESENTER(S) Lisette Sutherland

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Week of February 08, 2021

Failing Fast: The Impact of Bias When Speeding Up Application Security

PRESENTER(S) Laura Bell

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How to Work in Tech and Not Wreck the Planet

PRESENTER(S) Holly Cummins

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Week of February 15, 2021

A Love Letter to Clojure

PRESENTER(S) Gene Kim

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Mastering Virtual Communication

PRESENTER(S) Anne Ricketts

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Week of February 22, 2021

Momentum > Urgency and other Counter-intuitive Principles for Increasing Velocity

PRESENTER(S) Elisabeth Hendrickson

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C#'s Functional Journey

PRESENTER(S) Mads Torgersen

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Week of March 01, 2021

Greenwater, Washington: An Availability Story

PRESENTER(S) Marc Brooker

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Project Valhalla: Bringing Performance to Java Developers

PRESENTER(S) Tobi Ajila

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Week of March 08, 2021

Lean and Accelerate: Delivering Value as an Engineering Leader

PRESENTER(S) David Van Couvering

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Building Inclusive Software: Considerations and Constraints

PRESENTER(S) Sitati Kituyi

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Week of March 15, 2021

Communicating Effectively with Your Business Partners

PRESENTER(S) Randy Shoup

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Enabling Java: Windows on Arm64 – A Success Story!

PRESENTER(S) Monica Beckwith

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Week of March 22, 2021

Paving the Road to Production

PRESENTER(S) Graham Jenson

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The Medieval Census Problem

PRESENTER(S) Andy Walker

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Week of March 29, 2021

From Mixins to Custom Hooks: History of Sharing in React

PRESENTER(S) Ben Ilegbodu

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It’s Not Your Machine; It’s Your Code.

PRESENTER(S) Adekunle Adepoju

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Week of April 05, 2021

From Monolith to Microservices

PRESENTER(S) Sha Ma

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Starting Fast: Investigating Java's Static Compilation Landscape

PRESENTER(S) Dan Heidinga

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Week of April 12, 2021

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

PRESENTER(S) Mary-Frances Winters

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Utopia or Dystopia? 10 Ways Tech Will Destroy Us All! Or Will It?

PRESENTER(S) anne currie

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Week of April 19, 2021

A Sticky Situation: How Netflix Gains Confidence in Changes

PRESENTER(S) Haley Tucker

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Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability

PRESENTER(S) Elizabeth Carretto

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Week of April 26, 2021

Live Interview: Phishing Techniques and Mitigations

PRESENTER(S) Joe Gray

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What Engineering Teams Need From Leaders Right Now

PRESENTER(S) Lena Reinhard

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Week of May 03, 2021

DEI Is Rooted in Justice. Let's Stop Making It About Profit.

PRESENTER(S) Chanita Simms

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Change Data Capture for Distributed Databases @Netflix

PRESENTER(S) Raghuram Onti Srinivasan, Tharanga Gamaethige

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Week of May 10, 2021

User Simulation for Rapid Outage Mitigation

PRESENTER(S) Carissa Blossom

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The Functional Evolution of Object-Oriented Programming

PRESENTER(S) James Ward, Joshua Suereth

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Week of May 17, 2021

Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale

PRESENTER(S) Mathias Schwarz

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Improving Video Encoding System Efficiency @Netflix

PRESENTER(S) Susie Xia

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Week of May 24, 2021

Serverless Search for My Blog With Java, Quarkus, & AWS Lambda

PRESENTER(S) Gunnar Morling

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Using DevEx to Accelerate GraphQL Federation Adoption @Netflix

PRESENTER(S) Paul Bakker, Kavitha Srinivasan

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Week of May 31, 2021

Scaling & Optimising the Training of Predictive Models

PRESENTER(S) Nicholas Mitchell

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Rebuilding Twitter’s public API

PRESENTER(S) Steve Cosenza

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Week of June 07, 2021

How to Tame Your Service APIs: Evolving Airbnb’s Architecture

PRESENTER(S) Jessica Tai

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The World Is On Fire And So Is Your Website

PRESENTER(S) Ann Lewis

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Week of June 14, 2021

Essential Complexity in Systems Architecture

PRESENTER(S) Laura Nolan

Pragmatic Performance - Tales from the Trenches

PRESENTER(S) Ramesh Subramonian

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Week of June 21, 2021

From Program to Process, Designing for Equity in the Workplace

PRESENTER(S) Aubrey Blanche

Designing IoT Data Pipelines for Deep Observability

PRESENTER(S) Shrijeet Paliwal

Week of June 28, 2021

User Adaptive Security

PRESENTER(S) Christina Camilleri , Jesse Kriss

Intentional Distributed Teams

PRESENTER(S) Maria Gutierrez, Glenn Vanderburg

Week of July 05, 2021

Create Autonomous, Highly Productive Teams By Lowering the Stakes

PRESENTER(S) Jason Lengstorf

Data-Driven Development in the Automotive Field

PRESENTER(S) Toshika Srivastava

Week of July 12, 2021

The SRE as a Diplomat

PRESENTER(S) Johnny Boursiquot

Pitfalls and Patterns in Microservice Dependency Management

PRESENTER(S) Silvia Esparrachiari

Week of July 19, 2021

History of Infra as Code

PRESENTER(S) Andrew Clay Shafer

Designing Better ML Systems: Learnings From Netflix

PRESENTER(S) Savin Goyal

Week of July 26, 2021

Architecting For Focus, Flow, and Joy: Beyond The Unicorn Project: A Fireside Chat with Gene Kim, Mike Nygard, and Carin Meier

PRESENTER(S) Gene Kim, Michael Nygard, Carin Meier

Less Mess, Less Stress: The Reliability Benefits of Custom Tools

PRESENTER(S) Daniel Hochman

Week of August 02, 2021

Security and the Language of Intent

PRESENTER(S) Tracy Holmes, Petros Kolyvas

Server-Side Wasm: Today and Tomorrow

PRESENTER(S) Connor Hicks

Week of August 09, 2021

Helm: Past, Present, Future

PRESENTER(S) Bridget Kromhout, Matt Butcher, Matt Farina

Production Infrastructure Cloning++: Reliability and Repeatability

PRESENTER(S) JD Palomino

Note: These dates are subject to change without notice.

QCon Plus November 2020 Videos

How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation

Building Latency Sensitive User Facing Analytics via Apache Pinot

Building Tech at Presidential Scale

Finding The “I” within Inclusion

Navigating the New Remote Normal

Failing Fast: The Impact of Bias When Speeding Up Application Security

How to Work in Tech and Not Wreck the Planet

A Love Letter to Clojure

Mastering Virtual Communication

Momentum > Urgency and other Counter-intuitive Principles for Increasing Velocity

C#'s Functional Journey

Greenwater, Washington: An Availability Story

Project Valhalla: Bringing Performance to Java Developers

Lean and Accelerate: Delivering Value as an Engineering Leader

Building Inclusive Software: Considerations and Constraints

Communicating Effectively with Your Business Partners

Enabling Java: Windows on Arm64 – A Success Story!

Paving the Road to Production

The Medieval Census Problem

From Mixins to Custom Hooks: History of Sharing in React

It’s Not Your Machine; It’s Your Code.

From Monolith to Microservices

Starting Fast: Investigating Java's Static Compilation Landscape

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Utopia or Dystopia? 10 Ways Tech Will Destroy Us All! Or Will It?

A Sticky Situation: How Netflix Gains Confidence in Changes

Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability

Live Interview: Phishing Techniques and Mitigations

What Engineering Teams Need From Leaders Right Now

DEI Is Rooted in Justice. Let's Stop Making It About Profit.

Change Data Capture for Distributed Databases @Netflix

User Simulation for Rapid Outage Mitigation

The Functional Evolution of Object-Oriented Programming

Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale

Improving Video Encoding System Efficiency @Netflix

Serverless Search for My Blog With Java, Quarkus, & AWS Lambda

Using DevEx to Accelerate GraphQL Federation Adoption @Netflix

Scaling & Optimising the Training of Predictive Models

Rebuilding Twitter’s public API

How to Tame Your Service APIs: Evolving Airbnb’s Architecture

The World Is On Fire And So Is Your Website

Essential Complexity in Systems Architecture

Pragmatic Performance - Tales from the Trenches

From Program to Process, Designing for Equity in the Workplace

Designing IoT Data Pipelines for Deep Observability

User Adaptive Security

Intentional Distributed Teams

Create Autonomous, Highly Productive Teams By Lowering the Stakes

Data-Driven Development in the Automotive Field

The SRE as a Diplomat

Pitfalls and Patterns in Microservice Dependency Management

History of Infra as Code

Designing Better ML Systems: Learnings From Netflix

Architecting For Focus, Flow, and Joy: Beyond The Unicorn Project: A Fireside Chat with Gene Kim, Mike Nygard, and Carin Meier

Less Mess, Less Stress: The Reliability Benefits of Custom Tools

Security and the Language of Intent

Server-Side Wasm: Today and Tomorrow

Helm: Past, Present, Future

Production Infrastructure Cloning++: Reliability and Repeatability

QCon Plus November
2020 Videos