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AI makes code faster to write. It also makes every downstream bottleneck more expensive. Watch the Nicole Forsgren keynote on the real constraint from QCon San Francisco 2025.
Worth watching before QCon San Francisco returns Nov 16-18. Early bird ends April 14. https://bit.ly/3NURzIq
Is your team feeling "model fatigue"?
Birgitta Böckeler @Thoughtworks delivers a keynote at #QConLondon to help you see the forest for the trees. A high-altitude look at the last 12 months of AI coding assistants and where the industry stands today.
Get the reality check: https://bit.ly/3OOrzhR
Cloud dependency is now a geopolitical risk. 🌍
Martin Kleppmann, author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, delivers the #QConLondon keynote on technological sovereignty.
🔹Local-first software 🔹atproto & Bluesky
QCon San Francisco is programmed by practitioners, not organizers.
The 2026 committee: engineers from Netflix, Zoox, Momento, Monzo, Quotient, and Blackbaud, selecting talks based on what they're seeing in production right now.
November 16-20, San Francisco.
Reliable LLM outputs in production require more than prompting.
Ricardo Ferreira (Redis, ex-AWS, Elastic, Confluent) covers context engineering as an architectural discipline at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.
Register: https://bit.ly/4vwJL0g
Registration for the April online cohort closes Monday, April 13.
Join Luca Mezzalira and a small group of senior peers to pressure-test your technical strategy.
Starts April 15. Secure your spot: https://bit.ly/4c3EAxf
Higher AI adoption, no corresponding improvement in delivery. A lot of teams are stuck in that gap.
Lizzie Matusov @Quotient shares a research-driven maturity model at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.
Early bird ends April 14: https://bit.ly/4e5ilZ6
Trust and safety at marketplace scale means low tolerance for errors in both directions. Bruna Pereira @DoorDash on building AI moderation that holds up in production. QCon AI Boston, June 1-2, Boston.
Early bird ends April 14. ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4bK9nis
LLM ranking at LinkedIn scale means strict latency budgets and hundreds of candidates per query. Sundara Ramachandran shares how they built it at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2. Early bird ends April 14.
Join Chaitanya Bhandari @TigerBeetle at #QConLondon 2026 for:
🔹Vectorized execution & branch-aware operators
🔹Vector search on columnar storage
🔹NUMA-aware computational scheduling
🔹Auto-derived JIT compilers
Every QCon session is selected by practicing engineers, not a sales team.
That one decision changes everything: who speaks, what they share, and who shows up.
🔧 Speakers chosen for production experience, not sponsorship
💬 Hallway conversations with peers solving the same problems
📐 20 years of practitioner curation
🇬🇧 QCon London — Mar 16-19 🇺🇸 QCon AI Boston — Jun 1-2 🇺🇸 QCon San Francisco — Nov 16-20
Early bird for all three ends March 10.
https://qconlondon.com | https://boston.qcon.ai | https://qconsf.com
Learning in public under real pressure. That's the current state of the field.
Laura Savino (@Adobe Photoshop) opens the final day of QCon London with a keynote on what happens when the pace of change outstrips your ability to feel competent, and the practical shifts that help.
March 18. https://bit.ly/4sJQP7K
The PoC worked. Now comes the hard part. QCon AI Boston (June 1-2, Boston) is built around what it actually takes to run AI reliably in production.
Partial schedule for QCon AI Boston (June 1-2) is live. Sessions from DoorDash, LinkedIn, Apple, Red Hat on agents, context engineering, AI safety at marketplace scale, and more.
Early bird ends May 12.
Most certifications end with a quiz. This one ends with a capstone assessment applied to a real architectural challenge.
5 weeks, live sessions, led by Luca Mezzalira.
Starts April 15. Find out more at: https://bit.ly/4mcTTai
QCon San Francisco is programmed by practitioners, not organizers.
The 2026 committee: engineers from Netflix, Zoox, Momento, Monzo, Quotient, and Blackbaud, selecting talks based on what they're seeing in production right now.
November 16-20, San Francisco.
Three sessions worth knowing about at QCon London 2026:
Sam Newman on cascading failures. Martin Kleppmann on local-first software and cloud sovereignty. Kasia Trapszo on how Netflix's architecture actually evolved.
Early bird ends March 10.
Architecture, platform engineering, AI agents — the InfoQ Certified Architect program covers how they connect.
5 weeks online. April, May, June cohorts open.
AI agents don't know your company. Ajay Prakash, Senior Staff @LinkedIn, on how CAPT gave 500+ skills to engineers, PMs, and designers via MCP, with a live demo.
QCon AI Boston, June 1-2. Early bird ends May 12.
The morning ICSAET certification group at QCon London is sold out. An afternoon group on March 19 has been added. Limited places.
Hype cycles come and go. Real engineering agency is forever. 🏛️
Join Shawna Martell and leaders from the BBC, Personio, and Carta at #QConLondon 2026 for "The Long Game" track.
🔹 Mastering "boring" problems
🔹 Sociotechnical architecture
🔹 Tech debt in the AI era
🔹 The Influence Toolkit
At the Staff+ level, an architectural mistake is a 6-month migration. 📉
Join a curated cohort of senior peers at QCon San Francisco to stress-test your strategy and get the peer review your role usually lacks.
Led by Luca Mezzalira.
Upgrade your ticket to join the cohort: https://bit.ly/4rYkQk7
Most engineering teams are somewhere in the middle of figuring out AI adoption. The Organizations in Flux track at QCon London is built around that reality. Wednesday, March 18.
DORA research from Google Cloud. Duolingo's learning programs for 300+ engineers. Four patterns for AI-native development from Patrick Debois.
Why do the same ideas keep coming back? Holly Cummins closes QCon London on March 18 with "The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity."
Find out more about the keynote: https://bit.ly/4lpJWpt
When every team implements their own retry logic, cost tracking, and fallback mechanisms, engineering time is wasted on plumbing instead of features.
At QCon AI Boston 2026, Siddharth Kodwani and Swaroop Chitlur share how @DoorDash built a unified GenAI platform.
Scale without the waste: https://bit.ly/4r9w7No
One of the most practical talks from InfoQ Dev Summit Boston last year: Phil Calçado on the gap between AI experimentation and production. Worth watching before QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.
Early bird ends April 14.
Watch: https://bit.ly/4bZOyOR
Justifying architectural trade-offs to stakeholders requires more than technical intuition.
The InfoQ Certified Architect cohort covers the Architecture Canvas, ADRs, and RFC frameworks.
Starts April 15. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4bYUpVX
Early in your career? The QCon AI Boston volunteer program offers free access to sessions and recordings in exchange for onsite support. June 1-2, Boston.
AI infrastructure decisions are being shaped by constraints most teams can’t see from the inside.
Jordan Nanos @SemiAnalysis breaks down the hardware and economics at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2, Boston. Early bird ends April 14.
Systems that fail in ways you can't reproduce. The Debugging Distributed Systems track at QCon London, March 16-18, is built around exactly that. Last day for early bird pricing.
Management playbooks from 5 years ago are hitting a wall.
Join Wes Reisz at #QConLondon to rethink engineering teams for 2026.
🔹 Hiring signals
🔹 Broken career ladders
🔹 Cross-stack data ownership
🔹 Agency-led structure
"Code is becoming a commodity. Good code for your context isn't."
Luca Mezzalira on why every senior engineer now needs to think like an architect. A full week of the cohort covers it.
May and June cohorts open: https://bit.ly/4mI9IpF
Direct LLM-to-SQL doesn’t hold up at enterprise scale. Francesca Lazzeri (Microsoft) shares a hybrid architecture that combines LLM reasoning with deterministic computation for reliable query generation.
QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.
Register: https://bit.ly/4cPUH0L
Join Francesca Lazzeri, Principal Group Director @microsoft@techhub.social, at QCon AI Boston to explore a hybrid architecture for trusted AI query generation.
🔹Intent screening & fuzzy semantic matching
🔹Deterministic aggregation (no hallucinations)
🔹Schema-aware validation
Move from demos to production: https://bit.ly/40FwVi3
At some point in a senior technical career, the feedback loops disappear. You become the person making the calls.
The InfoQ Certified Architect cohort is built around that.
Starts April 15: https://bit.ly/4toS6Bx
A lot of field-tested architectural knowledge never leaves the company where it was built.
In this 5-week cohort, you'll write a peer-reviewed article for InfoQ.com documenting your production trade-offs. Starts April 15.
Find out more:
https://bit.ly/41BBpXL
As AI takes on more engineering work, what does the job actually become?
Michelle Brush (Engineering Director, SRE, Google) addressed it head-on at QCon San Francisco 2025.
Worth watching before QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18. Early bird ends April 14.
Early in your career? The QCon San Francisco 2026 volunteer program gives you free access to sessions and recordings in exchange for onsite support.
Conference: Nov 16-18, San Francisco.
Apply: https://bit.ly/4smfeja
AI doesn't just speed up delivery; it exposes technical debt. DORA data from 5,000 professionals shows AI surfaces dysfunction faster than teams can pay it down.
Get practitioner-led strategies at QCon AI Boston and QCon San Francisco.
Early bird ends April 14: https://bit.ly/4dwlxgh
Agent extensions can add tools, but they can't deeply shape behavior. And most are tied to a single vendor. If you've been hitting those limits, Niko Matsakis (Rust lang design team, Amazon) is building something different.
QCon AI Boston, June 1-2. Early bird ends April 14.
QCon AI Boston (June 1-2) has a volunteer program for students and early-career professionals. Free conference access in exchange for onsite support.
A 5-week online cohort for senior engineers and architects, led by Luca Mezzalira.
Starting April 15, May 7, or June 10. Limited places.
Moving an AI agent from prototype to production introduces state management and framework lock-in problems most tooling wasn’t built for.
Deepak Chandramouli and Bhumik Thakkar @apple@techhub.social share how they solved it with Ray. QCon AI Boston, June 1-2. Early bird ends today.
Evaluation for agentic AI is harder than it looks, and rebuilding it per product doesn't scale. Susan Chang (Elastic) shares two years of production learnings at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.
Early bird ends April 14.
Why did your agent pick that tool? 🛠️
Prompt engineering won't tell you, but mechanistic interpretability will.
Join Hannes Hapke, @Dataiku, at #QConAIBoston to explore Kiji Inspector. Learn to use Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to turn black-box activations into interpretable decision factors.