QCon Plus: Level-up your software development and tech leadership skills. Shape your learning journey.

[QCon Plus Logo] May 10-20, 2022 A 2-WEEK ONLINE CONFERENCE With just over 2 weeks until [QCon Plus]( kicks off on May 10, now is the time to secure your place and start planning your personalized learning schedule. Don’t miss out on valuable insights being shared with 1,000 of your peers. Build your personal learning path to shape your tech and skills adoption [QCon Plus]( is an online learning path that shares with you everything you need to adopt the latest patterns and practices in professional software development and team leadership, directly from [80+ senior software practitioners]( like you. You’ll: - Get the assurance that you are adopting the right technologies and skills. - Save valuable time learning from the experiences of others without wasting resources on the wrong technologies. - Learn the actions, frameworks, and practices that will help you identify what you and your team should focus on to achieve your goals. - Set the pace for your learning path over 2 weeks to 90 days, from all-live sessions to all on-demand learning. Pick a learning pace that works best for you: - Fully live experience: Immerse yourself in the [full live experience spaced over a few hours a day across two weeks](. Get your burning questions answered by our 80 software practitioner speakers in interactive Q&As, speaker hangouts, and in our QCon Plus Slack. - A mix of live and on-demand access: Pick the sessions you would like to join live, connect with speakers and peers, and watch other talks on-demand over 90 days at a pace that suits you. - All on-demand access for 90 days: A stress-free training environment. Create a self-directed learning experience over 3 months to fit around your schedule. Your all-access 90-day pass will unlock 60+ inspirational talks to watch at your own pace…as many times as you like. [Start your learning path starting May 10. Sign up.]( Top tracks not to miss as a Software Architect - [Architectures You've Always Wondered About:]( Hosted by [Eder Ignatowicz](, Java Champion, Tech Lead, and Principal Software Engineer @RedHat. - [Optimising for Speed & Flow](: Hosted by [Matthew Skelton](, Founder and Head of Consulting @ConfluxHQ - [Building and Evolving APIs](: Hosted by [Wes Reisz](, Technical Principal @thoughtworks & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previously Platform Architect @VMware - [Debug, Analyze & Optimise... in Production!](: Hosted by [Pierre Vincent](, Head of SRE @weareglofox. - [Modern Data Pipelines & DataMesh](: Hosted by [Adi Polak](, VP of DevEx @Treeverse - [Resilient Architectures](: Hosted by [Nicki Watt](, CTO/CEO @OpenCredo [Start your learning path starting May 10. Sign up.]( Sessions recommended for you at QCon Plus - [How Starling Built Their Own Card Processor]( Rob Donovan and Ioana Creanga talk about what happens behind the scenes when you pay with your card, and how Starling built their own card processor, integrating more traditional hardware with cloud-deployed micro-services. With speakers: - [Ioana Creanga](, Engineer Lead for the Payments Processing Group @StarlingBank - [Rob Donovan](, Tech Lead @StarlingBank - [Profiles, the Missing Pillar: Continuous Profiling in Practice]( In this session, we will have a look at the origins and the underlying motivation of Continuous Profiling (CP) and discuss the cost and benefits of using CP in production. Finally, we will make the case that profiles are, in addition to logs, metrics, and traces, the missing pillar of observability. Speaker: [Michael Hausenblas](, Solution Engineering Lead @AWS. - [Slack’s DNSSEC Rollout: Third Time’s the Outage]( In this session, Slack present their candid case study of when a large SaaS company enabled DNSSEC. Join this session to gain a better appreciation of DNSSEC’s workings, strategies for mitigating risk and an entertaining outage story. Speaker: [Rafael de Elvira](, Senior Software Engineer @Slack - [Taming the Data Mess, How Not to Be Overwhelmed by the Data Landscape]( In this talk, we review the current data landscape and discuss both technical and organizational ideas to avoid being overwhelmed by the current lack of consolidation of the data engineering world. We will discuss ideas from adopting open source APIs and open standards to more recent data management methodologies around operations, data sharing, and data products that enable us to create and maintain resilient and reliable data architectures. Speaker: [Ismaël Mejía](, Senior Cloud Advocate @Microsoft - [How to Test Your Fault Isolation Boundaries in the Cloud]( In this session, we will talk about fault isolation boundaries and ways to take advantage of fault isolation in AWS. We will then demonstrate initial tests you can use to ensure your system has successfully isolated faults within its architecture. Speaker: [Jason Barto](, Principal Solutions Architect @AWS [Start your learning path starting May 10. Sign up.]( Remember, you don’t have to tune in live. You can catch all sessions on-demand across 90 days. Share your experience and learnings with your team with our 4+1 offer Don't let your friends and colleagues miss out. You can [buy tickets for your team]( now and save a special offer - an additional complimentary ticket for every 4 regular conference tickets purchased. There’s no need to add attendee names yet. Order the tickets you'd like now and add names later. Once you've placed your order, we’ll send you individual promo codes each person can use to register. [Claim the group discount]( What sets QCon Plus apart? - Senior software practitioners first. - Real-world technical talks. - Proven actions based upon real-world experiences. - No hidden marketing, no sales pitches, no hype. - Hand-picked speakers by an international committee. - Customizable learning path from 2 weeks to over 90 days. P.S. Unable to make QCon Plus? Looking to attend in-person again? Take a look at [QCon San Francisco](, October 24-28. Save $150 until April 25, 2022. Groups as small as 3 attendees working for the same company are eligible for a group discount. For more details and to apply for a discount code, email info@qconferences.com and mention the size of the group. Note: Our early bird pricing ends April 25. If you don't want to receive any more updates on QCon conferences click the following link: [Unsubscribe]( - - - C4Media Inc. 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