QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community.
A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Next gen architecture, Arch over the full lifecycle, Bleeding edge tech in legacy, Cognitive biases in architecture, Evolving Architecture.
As big data tools and architectures continue to evolve, how do you architect and select technologies that work now but are also future-proof?
As infrastructure becomes as malleable as code, a unified approach from reqs to ops is needed to deliver promised breakthroughs.
The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.
Java is evolving to meet developer and business needs, from lambdas in Java 8 to built-in support for money types rumoured for Java 9.
How theories from neuroscience and psychology can help us better understand IT professionals and discover what really motivates them.
People building stuff for and with containers showing why application portability is important, and what can be done with expanding ecosystems.
Reflecting on and learning from successes and failures in applying agile approaches since the creation of the Agile Manifesto and exploring ways of applying agile practices to increase business value.
The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?
What software devs need to know to design and build for instrumented environments and reactive things, what new issues and questions it raises.
How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.
How to create reactive systems is more than simply learning a framework. Thinking in a reactive way helps you to design responsive architectures.
The Go Language - Concurrency, Performance, Systems Programming.
Get a rare look behind the scenes and get to see the architectures of the most well-known sites with the least known architectures.
The 'race to zero' continues. Join us to learn about the latest tecniques being deployed to optimise order routing and execution.
Financial services have changed from OS as cost-saving to a competitive weapon. See open source projects that are disrupting the finance industry.
Come have fun with fellow PMs and BAs as you learn about Value Management. We'll even tell you dark tales of Snarks, Hippos and other obstacles.
Tackling the challenges of microservices in practice.
Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems.
Many say that this is Africa’s century … we’ve all heard the meme “Africa Rising”. Technology, and in particular, software, will play a critical role in that story and much is being done to build capability and capacity across the continent in software development. But, there’s more to this story. Building software on the continent has its challenges, and with that, its lessons … that can benefit others in the world. In this talk, we share a few lessons already learned.
Cluster management is the set of tools and processes that Google uses to control the computing infrastructure in our data centers to support almost all of our external services. It includes allocating resources to different applications on our fleet of computers, looking after software installations and hardware, monitoring, and many other things. Much of the talk will be about lessons we've learned from the challenges that we face, driven by the scale at which we operate, an acute awareness of failures, and the drive to provide ever-better service-levels while curbing complexity. We certainly don't have all the answers, but we do have some pretty impressive systems.
Developers face an ongoing tension with no one-size-fits-all solution between buying vs building products. For example, at Netflix we built our own monitoring system from scratch -- and you probably shouldn't. In many cases, this is a spectrum, rather than a binary decision, with engagements that span from customizing software, to building interfaces to it, and sometimes contributing back to open-source software. The factors contributing to a given decision are sometimes rational (e.g. degree of customization and environmental uniqueness) and sometimes decidedly not. We'll discuss a few occasions within Netflix where we had to make this choice and different approaches we took -- some of...
We all have moments that change the way we think, the way we look at the world, the things we want to do with our lives. On July 20, 1969 millions of people had one of those transforming experiences: Two men landed on the Moon and nothing was ever the same again. Why did we go to the Moon? How did we get there? What was it like to witness it all? And what does any of this have to do with writing software 40 years later?
In this talk, Russ Olsen will take you back to a humid Sunday afternoon that changed his life. It might yet change yours.
The Centre is located opposite Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament and with views of Big Ben and the British Airways London Eye. The location is minutes from the West End of London offering a whole host of bars, pubs, cafes, restaurants and hotels to make your visit to our venue and London, fun, relaxed and enjoyable.
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Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
We’re doing Open Space at QCon because we want this conference to be yours. At QCon, we learn from the best and share with the best.
We come with passions and ideas that we want to share with each other. We want to connect with each other, create community around topics that we’re passionate about.
Come attend to mingle and network with other speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.
Mark Powell presents examples of how NASA uses innovative technologies in missions such as Mars Exploration Rovers, the Cassini Saturn Orbiter, the Phoenix Mars Lander as well as new technology projects including the JPL Aerobot and the ATHLETE prototype lunar robotic vehicle.
Attila Szegedi shares lessons learned tuning the JVM at Twitter, spending most of his talk discussing memory tuning, CPU usage tuning, and lock contention tuning.
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.
Stefan Tilkov challenges many commonly-held assumptions about how to best develop web applications, emphasizing the strengths and ideal roles for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP and URIs.
Nathan Marz discusses building NoSQL-based data systems that are scalable and easy to reason about.
Michael Nygard discusses several loopholes in the CAP theorem that can be used to engineer practical, real-world systems with desirable features.
Damian Conway discusses what regexes really are, how they actually work, and how programmers can make use of their existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient regexes.
Martin Thompson focuses on the evolution of Java and how it contrasts to C/C++, covering the cultural challenges of pushing the limits of performance and how to collaborate with industry experts and organize teams, which often stands at odds with the culture in many organisations.
Linda Rising challenges organizational myths like "it's enough to have smart people" or "just have a transition plan and explain it" and it will work out, introducing and sustaining new ideas.
Simon Ritter discusses the syntax and use of Lambda expressions, focusing on using Streams to greatly simplify the way bulk and aggregate operations are handled in Java.
Emma Langman explores the usefulness of some of the Quality tools that have been around since the 50s for gathering requirements, tackling repeat problems, or innovating more efficiently as a team.
Rich Hickey discusses simplicity, why it is important, how to achieve it in design and how to recognize its absence in the tools, language constructs and libraries.
Abstraction is at the center of much work in Computer Science. It encompasses finding the right interface for a system as well as finding an effective design for a system implementation.
Joe Armstrong describes the foundations of fault tolerant computation and the basic properties a system should have in order to be able to function in an adequate manner despite the occurrence of hardware and software errors, summarizing the key features of Erlang clusters.
Tony Hoare introduced Null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 “simply because it was so easy to implement”, says Mr. Hoare. He talks about that decision considering it “my billion-dollar mistake”.
