📅 QCon SF 2022: Why the rise of Staff+Engineer Path might be the next big trend in team leadership.

Claim your $600 early bird saving [QCon London - logo] October 24 - 28, 2022 Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Hey folks, A trend the [QCon San Francisco Program Committee]( is focusing on this year is the rise of the [Staff+Engineer](. But what does this role mean in practice? What does this mean for the skills you need to develop to stay on track to technical lead? And why should you pay attention to this trend that might be the next big trend in team leadership? At our [QCon San Francisco]( conference taking place later this year, we dedicate a track to exploring this emerging practice through the experiences and stories of those on this path. You can learn more about this practice and other [key emerging trends]( in person at [QCon San Francisco]( (October 24-28) or online at [QCon Plus]( (November 29 - December 9). As always, we’ll bring together hand-picked senior software practitioners to help you learn the emerging trends, explore the use cases, and implement the best practices. We hope to see you there! The QCon Team P.S. [Claim your $600 early bird saving]( for the QCon San Francisco conference by registering before June 27. “Usually companies have a very clear technical path. But for many companies, this is still not clear. For many developers or technical professionals, they have to choose to become managers if they want to have better compensation or to have more decision power. The problem the industry faces at the moment is we don't have enough technical professionals, and this is happening all over the world. Why are we getting our more experienced professionals and making them become managers, just to have better compensation, when what we need is these professionals to stay in the technical path so they can help to advance the industry.” [Fabiane Nardon] Fabiane Nardon, QCon San Francisco 2022 and QCon Plus Nov 2022 Track Host, Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia Learn how dev leaders are embracing emerging trends and practices to give you the assurance you are adopting the right technologies and skills. [Claim your spot at QCon San Francisco]( Book now and save $600 off the full price ticket until June 27, 2022 📢 Tracks at QCon SF just announced Tracks for QCon San Francisco and online will feature [15 technical tracks]( and 75 technical talks: - Green Tech: Uncover the latest trends in environmentally friendly production software and processes. - MLOps: All about emerging engineering discipline combining ML, DevOps and Data Engineering. Topics include: feature engineering, model dev, lifecycle management. Model Inference/Prediction, observability). - "Just" Engineering Culture: Lessons learned from failures and outages, including humane operations, effective postmortems, and building systems knowing humans make mistakes. - Practical Security: How security needs to change to prioritize DevEX while balancing security risk tolerance. Topics around scaling auth/authz architecture, privacy at scale, securing public API endpoints, securing the cloud, insider threats, & the cost of security. - Effective SRE: Good SREs are pragmatic. They analyze, they use their big picture understanding of a service and how it fits into a wider system to come up with solutions that minimize impacts to others or provide positive impacts to others. These are their stories. - Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow: Patterns and heuristics enabling fast flow and rapid evolution of modern software, including decision/sense-making techniques, team dynamics, & technical practices. - Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML: Managing/provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration is just the start. Exploring: Cue, unification, OPA, Operator Pattern for Nonclustered Resources, Scalable Configuration Management. - Architecting for Change at Scale: Change is one of the few constants in technology, so the better we are at enabling change at scale, the more we can focus on serving the needs of our customers. Design systems that are easy to evolve to keep up with the needs of the business while minimizing your risk and technical debt. - Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend: Let's talk about the frontend, not with the tools we use but through the problems we're solving; re-usability, composition, abstraction, velocity, and performance. - Modern APIs: Building and Evolving: Exploring patterns & practices building APIs with GraphQL, Kubernetes, Service Meshes, & API Gateways. - Building Modern Backends: Polyglot, developer-focused track around Innovations building low-friction, performant backends powering software today. - "Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies: Hybrid work, 4-day workweeks, remote work, working from a remote island, returning to the office, and how these impact development productivity and, ultimately, careers. - Operating Microservices: Microservices solve numerous problems around cognitive load, velocity, isolation, and scalability - if you do them right. Topics around: legacy integration, observability, reverting microservices, and day 2 operations. - Staff+ Engineer Path: What skills do you need to develop if you want to stay on the technical track to technical lead, staff, or principal? What will it take to thrive in this type of role? - Architectures You've Always Wondered About: Marquee use case track, featuring well-known companies solving software challenges. Past companies include Google, Netflix, BBC, Twitter, Zoom, Snowflake, etc. * Tracks subject to change. “What has always stood out for me has been QCon's commitment to its brand promises. First of all, it's focused on practitioner content. QCon conferences are all about the people that develop and work with future technologies. This starts from the Programming Committee, which comprises practitioners that are authorities in their domain.” [Wes Reisz] Wes Reisz, QCon San Francisco Conference Chair, Co-host of the InfoQ Podcast, Technical Principal @thoughtworks, previously Platform Architect @VMware ✋ Tell us what workshops you would like to see at QCon SF QCon San Francisco will feature 2 days of hands-on [workshops]( to help you upskill on modern practices. Tentative workshop topics include: - Architecture 2-Day Training - React/Redux - Building Microfrontends - Domain Driven Design - Building Microservices with Go - MLOps - Architecture Katas - Deep Learning / Neural Network Workshop - Hands on Observability - Kubernetes (Introd/Intermediate) - Operating Kubernetes (Advanced) - Team Topologies and Interaction Patterns - Building Recommender Systems Something missing? Tell us what workshop topics you’d like to see at QCon San Francisco. Email the team at [info@qconferences.com](mailto:info@qconferences.com?subject=Workshop topic for QCon SF&body=A topic I'd like to see for a QCon San Francisco workshop is) and help shape the topics we cover this year. [Submit your topics](mailto:info@qconferences.com?subject=Workshop topic for QCon SF&body=A topic I'd like to see for a QCon San Francisco workshop is) 🎟 Claim your group savings for QCon San Francisco Groups as small as 3 attendees working for the same company are eligible for a group discount: - 3-6 attendees - save up to $100 off each conference ticket. - 7-10 attendees - save up to $150 off each conference ticket. - 11-15 attendees - save up to $175 off each conference ticket. - 16+ attendees - save up to $190 off each conference ticket. For more details and to apply for a discount code, email info@qconsf.com and mention the size of a group. “For most conferences I attend, I expect about 50% of the sessions to be helpful. 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Key Takeaways: - To operationalize transformer models on the edge you can use the ONNX runtime to easily work with different devices and programming languages. - Hugging Face has a lot of prebuilt machine learning models which are task-agnostic and can be retrained for something more specific. - Github Copilot can speed up your development process by intelligently auto-completing your code. - Microsoft partnered with Epic Games to create the Neural Network Inference plugin. This plugin uses the ONNX runtime to run ML models in the unreal engine and in the game. - Cassie started learning machine learning by learning exactly what is necessary to automate parts of her job. The best developers are lazy developers. [Listen to the podcast]( ✅ Register your place with confidence Did you know QCon Conferences have introduced a no-risk ticket option? 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