Track host
About the track
Fast, lightweight, secure, scaleable, cost effective, highly reliable, and green, as well as productive for developers. These days, efficient code has to tick a lot of boxes to be future proof. Is it possible to have it all?
What does efficient code now mean and where does efficiency start and end? This year, the efficient languages track will ask the question: are we green enough, performant enough, secure enough, and reliable enough? Is efficient code already the bedrock of the coming energy transition or will its future look very different to today?
We'll look at how platforms play a part in making efficient code more accessible to all; and find out what's out there and how we can get our platforms to give us more.
The day in the host's words
Sessions in this track
Tuesday 9 April. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session high performance What Can You Learn From the Fastest Code in the World? Alan Elder Principle Software Engineering Manager @Microsoft One of the challenges in the cloud is handling the vast amount of data that has to be sent and received. Doing this in software reduces the need for specialist hardware and increases flexibility. That's why superfast data planes exist. 11:45 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session Rust Not Just Memory Safety: How Rust Helps Maintain Efficient Software Pietro Albini Technical Lead of Ferrocene @Ferrous Systems, Formerly on the Rust Core Team, and Previous Lead of the Rust Infrastructure Team Rust's claim to fame is its memory safety without compromising on performance, eliminating whole classes of security vulnerabilities and bringing systems programming to the new generation. 13:35 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session ebpf Unleashing the Kernel With eBPF Liz Rice Chief Open Source Officer @Isovalent at Cisco, Ex-Governing Board at CNCF and OpenUK, Emeritus Chair, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, eBPF, Security, Cilium, Cloud Native eBPF is a kernel technology that is enabling a new generation of high-performance, low-overhead tools for networking, security and observability. 14:45 Rutherford (4th Fl.) Unconference Unconference: Efficient Programming Languages An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions. 15:55 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session Quarkus Zero Waste, Radical Magic, and Italian Graft – Quarkus Efficiency Secrets Holly Cummins Senior Technical Staff Member, Quarkus Team @IBM, Java Champion, Previously Senior Principal Software Engineer, Quarkus @Red Hat What makes a platform efficient? Is it how quickly code executes, or is it how quickly developers can use it to solve problems? Quarkus makes both people and hardware more efficient. That’s cool, but how does it work? 17:05 Windsor (5th Fl.) Session WebAssembly Turbocharged Development: The Speed and Efficiency of WebAssembly Danielle Lancashire Principal Software Engineer @Fermyon, Kubernetes Maintainer The **software carbon intensity (SCI)** of an application is the sum of its operational emissions and embodied hardware emissions. Serverless, or functions as a service (FaaS), provides a path towards reducing operational emissions by running event-driven applications only as needed.QCon London 2024 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.