Observability & SRE at QCon London 2026
At QCon London 2026, discover the emerging trends trends and practices in Observability & SRE directly from the senior practitioners who are defending what's next.
March 16–19, 2026
The QEII Centre, London
Early Bird Deadline February 10th
Conference: £2,490
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Observability & SRE sessions at QCon London 2026
Mar 17
Unconference: Debugging Distributed Systems
Mar 16
Unconference: Connecting Systems
Mar 17
Stitching Together Traces in a World of Async Callbacks
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Mar 17
Observability in Microservices & Gaming
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Nicholas Herring
Technical Director, Eve Online @CCP Games, Refiner of Internet Spaceships and Explorer of Feral Gordian Knots of Python
Mar 16
Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry
Queues are an essential component in a scalable distributed system, but going beyond the simple implementation creates an explosion of complexity to manage.
Julian Wreford
Team Lead of Operability Team @Gearset, Software Engineer Turned Accidental SRE
Oli Lane
Engineering Team Lead @Gearset, Focusing on Engineering Culture, Observability, and Platform Reliability
Mar 17
Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale
As Netflix scales hundreds of client platforms, microservices, and infrastructure components, correlating user experience with system performance has become a hard data problem, not just an observability one.
Prasanna Vijayanathan
Engineer @Netflix
Renzo Sanchez-Silva
Engineer @Netflix
Mar 16
APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era
As API programs mature, a familiar gap emerges: some teams operate with strong standards, reusable platforms, and clear governance, while others rely on informal guidance and best-effort consistency.
Jim Gough
Distinguished Engineer, API Platform Lead Architect @Morgan Stanley, Co-Author of Optimizing Java
Andreea Niculcea
Vice President @Morgan Stanley
Mar 18
How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist
Building correct distributed systems takes thinking outside the box, and the fastest way to do that is to think inside a different box. One different box is "formal methods", the discipline of mathematically verifying software and systems.
Hillel Wayne
Author of "Logic for Programmers" and "Learn TLA+", Thought Leader in the Space of Empirical Software Engineering
Mar 16
From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems
A “simple” API request rarely stays simple. In distributed systems, one call quickly turns into fan-out across gateways, services, caches, and databases — and your p99 becomes the sum of every hop and every flaky dependency.
Saranya Vedagiri
Senior Staff Engineer @eBay
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