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QCON LONDON 2017

Conference:March 6-8, 2017
Workshops:March 9-10, 2017

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Track: Workhorse Languages, Not Called Java

Location:

  • Windsor, 5th flr.

Day of week:

  • Tuesday

What does Python, Ruby, Go, and R have in common? They are all workhorses languages that modern companies are using to solve problems that just a few years ago they would have reached for Java to use. Come learn how Ruby is powering Infrastructure, Python is driving ML/Automation, and much more. Workhorse Languages Not Called Java is all about the richness in languages today. 

Track Host:
Werner Schuster
InfoQ Lead Editor for Functional Programming
Werner Schuster (@murphee) sometimes writes software, sometimes interviews folks about software. His recent interests are languages, performance optimisation, monitoring, and how to make software suck less using computer science research.
10:35am - 11:25am

by Richard Croucher
VP of High Frequency Engineering @Barclays
Coding for High Frequency Trading

Financial Services run arguably the most complex applications, with major institutions each running thousands of different applications. The most challenging and performance critical are the High Frequency Trading systems used in the Equities markets. This session will describe the application environments, design patterns and programming languages commonly deployed across Financial Services including Investment Banks and Hedge Funds.

11:50am - 12:40pm

by Matt Long
Dev-in-test @OpenCredo
Testing Programmable Infrastructure with Ruby

With the rise of DevOps, programmable infrastructure is reaching widespread adoption. However, although automated testing of software is becoming ever more common, the same cannot be said with testing the target deployment environment itself. With microservices making our deployments more and more complex, we can no longer afford to ignore this type of testing. This talk will take a tour through some approaches to environment infrastructure testing that we have...

1:40pm - 2:30pm

Open Space
Languages Open Space
2:55pm - 3:45pm

by Colin Hemmings
CTO and Co-founder @Outlyer
Why We Chose Erlang Over vs. Java, Scala, Go, C

Outlyer is a SaaS infrastructure monitoring tool. We process and store time-series data, which is currently at 100K points per second and growing.

To do the grunt work of processing and storing the growing mass of data, we originally started out with Node.JS—quick to build and time-saving. About a year into using it, we started to reach the limits of Node, so we began to investigate a more appropriate technology. We looked...

4:10pm - 5:00pm

by Matt Heath
Distributed Systems Engineer @Monzo
Building a Bank with Go

Traditionally applications have been built as monoliths; single applications which become larger and more complex over time, which limit our ability to react to change. An example of this is the banking industry where mergers and acquisitions between banks have lead to a patchwork of different systems & technologies that cost billions of dollars per year to maintain. As a result, the pace of innovation in the banking industry has slowed to a crawl. At Monzo...

5:25pm - 6:15pm

by Armin Ronacher
Creator of Python Flask
A Practical Road to SaaS' in Python

This talk goes over experiences building SaaS businesses on a Python technology stack from a security and scalability point of view. Where Python shines and which technologies to pair it with for best experiences.

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