AYAWA is a mainstay of QCon conferences, bringing together cross-industry talks from companies pushing the boundaries of what's possible with software.

Architecture here is not limited to web-scale distributed systems; it includes the technical structures that connect cloud, edge, data, platforms, and user-facing software into coherent, evolving systems, including highly regulated domains such as the financial industry.

These talks examine how architecture actually changes under pressure: global expansion, regulatory constraints, AI adoption, physical-world integration, and the realities of long-lived systems. Rather than idealized designs, we focus on the engineering decisions, trade-offs, and refactorings that enable systems to keep moving while the business, technology, and operating model evolve around them.

From cloud to client to edge, AYAWA explores architectures that don’t just scale technically, but adapt to the complexity of the real world.