Key takeaways from QCon NY. One week to claim early bird discounts for QCon SF.

Book tickets before June 27 to save.   [QCon Logo] October 2-6, 2023 Hyatt Regency. SF --- In-person or Video-Only Pass Hi {NAME}, I would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude for everyone’s contribution to making [QCon New York 2023]( an exceptional event. Our attendees’ presence, insights, and active participation truly made this QCon a resounding success and created a vibrant and inclusive atmosphere throughout the event. We hope everyone left with a clear action plan to implement the best practices you have explored. If you missed QCon New York, you can start your learning journey at [QCon San Francisco 2023]( (2-6 October). Throughout QCon New York, we hosted a diverse range of practical, [thought-provoking talks](, engaging unconference sessions, and opportunities for hallway conversations that fostered collaboration and innovation. Our InfoQ Editors at QCon New York shared their key takeaways that emerged during the conference: [Daniel Bryant]( Independent Consultant, News Manager @InfoQ, and Emeritus Chair for QCon London: - “Platform engineering should be focused on your customers (developers) and solving the biggest pain points for your organization. - LLMs can provide a lot of value as a pair programmer, but as with any tool, knowing when and how to use them effectively and understanding their limitations is vital. - Understanding how modern hardware and cloud infrastructure has evolved (and, for example, the impact this has had on latency numbers that developers should know) should influence application design decisions and tradeoffs.” [Ben Linders]( InfoQ Editor, Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / Speaker - “AI is certainly a trend at QCon (and generally). It can be helpful, as several talks showed, but "a fool with a tool is still a fool" applies here. Engineers need to have the skills to work with AI and learn ways how it can make their work life easier. This was mentioned in many talks, and will certainly be a future topic for QCon and InfoQ to explore. - Several talks that I attended dived into socio-technical aspects, which are key to exploring if you're aiming for sustainable change, learning, etc. Great to see this mentioned, with ideas on how to address it.” We owe a thank you to our senior software developer [programming committee](, [track hosts](, and [speakers](, whose expertise and eagerness to share captivated our audience and provided invaluable best practices. Their willingness to share their real-life experiences, uses-cases and engage in meaningful discussions enriched the conference experience for all, helping make sense of the pattern and practices to adopt. As we look towards our upcoming QCon San Francisco conference (October 2-6), the [Programming Committee]( are in the final stages of finalizing [the conference topics](. We will be announcing these in the coming weeks. I hope to see you at our upcoming QCon conferences. [Hannah] Dio Synodinos President C4Media, creators of InfoQ & QCon P.S. Early birding pricing reminder for [QCon San Francisco (October 2-6)](. We have limited early bird tickets available. Book before June 27 to save $780 on your in-person conference pass. [Find out more.]( We also have group discounts available for companies looking to bring their team to [QCon San Francisco](. To claim your discount, email info@qconsf.com mentioning the group size. “Lucky to attend #QCon again. First time to be in #NewYork, though. I really look forward to meeting and talking to new people. QCon is very special because it fosters collaboration and discussion among attendees. Thanks to the organizers for taking this approach. @qconnewyork" Tobias Haustein CEO @amidiro & QCon NY 2023 Attendee Up next: QCon San Francisco (October 2-6) Book before June 27 to claim your early bird discount. [Book ticket]( 🚀 Attendee takeaways from QCon New York Here are some learnings from our attendees shared via social media. - Sergey Fedorov, @sfedov @ranji2612 explains how Meta is using device-to-service traces, linear data modeling, and strategic demand allocation to make regional capacity management transparent to service owners. #QConNY #architecture - Dev Agrawal, @devagrawal09 "Compute is nimble and can be easily moved anywhere. Data is heavy and moving it has a cost...” Quoting @glcst’s amazing thoughts at @qconnewyork - Michelle Brush, @michellebrush "Just because something is in a spec, doesn't mean it's true." - Radia Perlman #QConNY - Gwen (Chen) Shapira, @gwenshap “Who here is an individual contributor or thinking about it?” Leslie Chapman is on fire 🔥 challenging everyone to really think about IC as a career path, not a “default”. Looking forward especially to hearing the decision-making algorithms. #QConNY - Colin Eberhardt, CTO at Scott Logic "The hardest part of going to the moon is talking to people!" A fantastic Day 2 #QConNYC keynote from Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo, a senior tech lead who is overseeing the engineering efforts across the Artemis programme. The quote was in reference to the supplier-management challenges they face. Interesting to hear about their transition from the old-style flexible-price contracts (Lockhead etc), to newer fixed-price contracts with SpaceX." - Ian Thomas, @anatomic “I didn’t break the build; we, as a team, hadn’t sufficiently hardened our pipelines to prevent it.” Shared accountability and a commitment to learning and improvement are essential for effectively practicing continuous delivery. Excellent advice from @BryanFinster #QConNY - Michelle Brush, @michellebrush Continuous Delivery is not just about feature delivery. It's more about reliability. How fast can you deploy a fix without cutting corners in your testing and delivery strategy? - paraphrasing @BryanFinster in his talk on Agile Rehab at #QConNY - Katharine Chajka Loved hearing Lee Rehwinkel present how AI via VSM agents helps make improving flow across your value stream much more accessible than ever before. Goodbye technical jargon! #QConNYC Less than one week to claim early bird discounts for QCon San Francisco. Book before June 27 to secure the early bird price for your team. [Secure my team's place]( 🎤 QCon SF 2022: 3 talks you might have missed Last year’s QCon San Francisco was one of our best. Here are some of last year's most popular talks: - [Tidy First? Kent Beck on Refactoring]( - Speaker: Kent Beck, Original Signer of the Agile Manifesto, Author of the Extreme Programming Book Series, Rediscoverer of Test-Driven Development - [Adopting Continuous Deployment at Lyft]( - Speaker: Tom Wanielista, Senior Staff Software Engineer @Lyft - [Leveraging Hybrid One-on-Ones for Better Connections]( - Speaker: Alexandra Sunderland, Senior Engineering Manager @fellowap “This is why I love #QCON learning about an OpenAi feature that was released yesterday, today... OpenAI Functions.’ John Willis Founder, @Botchagalupe Technologies & QCon NY 2023 Attendee Last chance to claim early bird tickets for QCon San Francisco. Book before June 27 to secure the early bird price. 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