QCon San Francisco ‘18 (Nov 5-9) - Tracks and Talks Moving, Topics on: Istio, DDD, Reactive, DataEng, Mixed Reality, React, & More

Speakers at QCon talk about their war stories -- the hard-fought knowledge that is gained through experience and sometimes failure. Those talks contain valuable details and insights that can't be found in a technical book or article. QCon also focuses on soft-skills, culture, and organization. As a senior technical leader, these are essential for success. Eric Turcotte, Architect: Solution/Systems @The Climate Corporation QCon, brought to you by InfoQ, is a global software conference for senior developers and architects. The conference is dedicated to providing a platform for innovators and early adopters to tell their stories, share their successes and more importantly, their failures. Held annually in cities such as Beijing, London, New York, Sao Paulo, and San Francisco, QCon is the place where software leaders meet to share knowledge, network, and challenge each other in the name of driving change in their teams. Registrations for the [12th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 5-9)]( are off to a great start. With [savings of $730]( if you register before Aug 18th with "INFOQSF18", there won't be a better time to reserve your spot for the 2018 professional software development conference. QCon San Francisco 2018 features [18 editorial tracks]( (plus three sponsored tracks). Each "editorial" track (that's what we call the curated talks focused on developer lessons) is a collection of software topics curated by a domain expert in areas such as culture, data science, machine learning, front-end technologies, and architecture. Here's an example of [last year's schedule](. Why last year? Each QCon is individually curated. The talks are selected and pursued by individual domain experts in software. There is no call for papers at QCon. Each of these invitation-only talks focuses on issues software engineering leaders like you, want to know more about. As a result, it takes longer to finalize the schedule. Just like our speakers, our track hosts are individually selected based upon their vision for the topics the organizing committee felt are the most important in software today. Some of the early track hosts confirmed include: Joe Beda Founder and CTO @Heptio, Co-creator of Kubernetes Ashley Williams Rust Programming Language and WebAssembly @Mozilla Randy Shoup VP Engineering @WeWork, previously ran Engineering at Stitch Fix and Google App Engine Courtney Hemphill Partner & Tech Lead @CarbonFive Danielle Leong Engineering Manager @GitHub leading the Community and Safety Team Sid Anand Chief Data Engineer @PayPal, formerly of @Netflix, @Etsy, and @ShapeSecurity Aysylu Greenberg Software Engineer @Google, building scalable infrastructure and distributed systems Justin Cormack Software Engineer @Docker working on LinuxKit, unikernels, containers, security, etc See all [18 hosts online by exploring each track at QConSF.com]( At QCon, we believe in practitioners over evangelists. While we love advocates, we have a preference for the engineers maintaining and building the distributed systems of modern software. Here we search out the committers, the maintainers, the people moving our industry forward and ask them to tell us about their experiences. [Join us](! Track Highlight: Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems We're adding a new track to our conference this year dedicated to [Production Readiness](. A production readiness review is often used by software companies to identify the reliability needs of a service. The idea is for SREs and team members to share what they've learned and experienced to ensure a reliable service operation in a production environment. This track explores what types of things major software shops do to ensure production readiness. Topics will include Observability, emergency response, capacity planning, release processes, and SLOs for availability and latency. These are experiences ripped directly from production readiness reviews at places like Google, Twitter, and large software shops world-wide. QCon San Francisco 2018 will feature 17 additional tracks just like Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems. See the [full list online](. Early Confirmations for QCon San Francisco 2018 Some of our early speakers we’ve confirmed include [Jessica Kerr]( (Polyglot Functional Developer @Atomist), [Jez Humble]( (CTO @devops_research & Co-author of "ACCELERATE") & [Nicole Forsgren]( (Founder and CEO @devops_research). In Jessica Kerr's session "[TypeScript for Enterprise Developers](", she talks about her move from Java/Scala to Server-side TypeScript for Node.js and her journey of discovering the language with both its beautiful or nasty surprises. Jez Humble and Nicole Forsgren recently published the book "Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations". The two will be talking about their experience in DevOps and building high performing, high frequency dev teams. Other recently confirmed speakers include: - Colman Bryant, Lead Interaction and Experience Design @MagicLeap - Vaughn Vernon, Founder and Lead Architect/Developer vlingo/platform & Leading Expert on Domain Driven Design / Reactive Architecture - Zack Butcher, Core Contributor @IstioMesh and founding engineer @tetrateio - Monal Daxini, Stream Processing Engineering Lead @Netflix - Check the site for speakers as they are announced! Trainings & Workshops QCon isn't just about the three-day conference. We feature two additional days of training and workshops that take place between November 8-9. Michael Nygard (Architect @Cognitect & Author of the Best Seller "Release It!") will give a [two-day training course on building an architecture designed to evolve](. Real architecture never reaches that blissful end state. Something always interrupts the program: businesses change, technology changes or funding dries up. The truth is that there is no end state. We must all learn to build systems that evolve and grow. Nygard prepares you for the realities of architecting modern apps today. In his intensive, two-day, hands-on workshop "[Event-Oriented Domain-Driven Design](", Vaughn Vernon (DDD Expert, Author of "Implementing Domain-Driven Design") will teach us DDD within an explicitly event-oriented microservices business domain. You will learn both strategic and tactical design. Tammy Butow (Principal Site Reliability Engineer @Gremlin) and Ana Medina (Software Engineer @Gremlin) lead a hands-on [workshop on chaos engineering](, covering the tools and practices you need in order to implement chaos engineering in your organization. Additional workshops are being finalized with plans for advanced sessions on Kubernetes, Microservices, Istio, Culture/Core Protocols, React, Jupyter Notebooks, PyTorch/TensorFlow, GraphQL, and Serverless. Follow developments online to see our final lineup as we announce it. See How We're Growing We believe QCon is a special experience. If you've never been before, you owe it to yourself to understand why QCon is so popular among developers and architects. If you've joined us in the past, come see how we've grown! The content you experience, the people you meet, the leaders with whom you interact, makes QCon so much more than the amazing technical education you see listed here. Please join us this year! 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