Abstract
Delivering a 'useful' network in the typical enterprise has always been challenging. Whether it's the rush to containerization, business goals around accelerated value delivery or regulatory pressure to be multi-cloud or even resurrect your own data centers, that job keeps getting harder. How should we evaluate the tools we use and how do we want them to compose to be useful?
Topics
networking
servicemesh
APIs
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon London 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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