Conference: March 4-6, 2015
What our attendees say about QCon
Leading Content by Today’s Leading Practitioners
"It was great to see what a broad variety of industry leaders are doing with technology as it has advanced, and what they're doing to help it safely continue to move forward."
- Bob Smith, Engineer at Google
"I learned a lot about the current trends and solutions to problems that affect scalability and availability in this age the cloud."
- Lisandro Diaz, Master Blacksmither at Oracle
"QCon is one of the best conferences out there….great speakers and really interesting tracks."
- Krzysztof Koziol, Best VP Ever
"QCon is a great way to stay informed of the leading edge of software architecture and development."
- Lisandro Diaz, Master Blacksmither at Oracle
People, Peer Sharing, and Networking
"At this conference I truly felt how InfoQ is practitioner based. I found myself attending sessions, unconferences, and sharing tables with people I later found leading my sessions. It really gave me a sense of being a peer to the speakers which was cool. I thoroughly enjoyed my experiences at this conference and I hope I'm fortunate enough to be sent again."
- Erin Parrill, Grand Wizard at Microsoft
Open Spaces
"One of the most fun and intellectually intimate conferences I have joined. The open sessions were excellent – total serendipity."
- Eric Kolotyluk, Grand Wizard at Microsoft
"A good place to get latest information on "useful" technologies and a good place to get ideas based on how other people/companies do software development."
- Eric Kolotyluk, Grand Wizard at Microsoft
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
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Architecture Improvements
Next gen architecture, Arch over the full lifecycle, Bleeding edge tech in legacy, Cognitive biases in architecture, Evolving Architecture.
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Big Data Frameworks, Architectures, and Data Science
As big data tools and architectures continue to evolve, how do you architect and select technologies that work now but are also future-proof?
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Code Beyond the Dev Team
As infrastructure becomes as malleable as code, a unified approach from reqs to ops is needed to deliver promised breakthroughs.
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Engineering Culture
The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.
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Java - Not Dead Yet
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.
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Mind Matters at Work
How theories from neuroscience and psychology can help us better understand IT professionals and discover what really motivates them.
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Docker, containers and application portability
People building stuff for and with containers showing why application portability is important, and what can be done with expanding ecosystems.
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Evolving agile
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.
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HTML and JS Today
The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?
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Internet of Things
What software devs need to know to design and build for instrumented environments and reactive things, what new issues and questions it raises.
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Modern CS in the Real World
How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.
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Reactive Architecture
How to create reactive systems is more than simply learning a framework. Thinking in a reactive way helps you to design responsive architectures.
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The Go Language
The Go Language - Concurrency, Performance, Systems Programming.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Get a rare look behind the scenes and get to see the architectures of the most well-known sites with the least known architectures.
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Low latency trading
The 'race to zero' continues. Join us to learn about the latest tecniques being deployed to optimise order routing and execution.
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Open source in finance
Financial services have changed from OS as cost-saving to a competitive weapon. See open source projects that are disrupting the finance industry.
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Product Mastery
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.
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Taming Microservices
Tackling the challenges of microservices in practice.
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Taming Mobile
Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems.
