QCon San Francisco is coming up on November 16th-18th and registrations are up 49% over last year. QCon’s annual practitioner-driven conference is designed for top-level software developers and influencers. The conference offers a curated list of expert practioners speaking about real-world experiences. Here are just a few of the people confirmed to speak at QCon San Francisco:
- Matt Ranney - Chief Systems Architect @Uber, Co-founder @Voxer
- Ben Watson - Principal Software Engineer @Microsoft
- Leah McGuire - PhD-Level Data Scientist @Salesforce
- Bridget Kromhout - Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry @Pivotal
A full schedule and list of talks is available at https://qconsf.com. However, a quick glance at the tracks shows topics ranging from containers to scalability, streaming data to architecting for failure. QCon San Francisco offers a lot of technology exposure in one location. Here is a list of several sessions that stood out.
- Web AR: Augmented Reality for Web: Augmented Reality using only web standards? Learn how leveraging an open source threex extension for three.js
- Contracts in Clojure: Settling Types vs Tests: Explore the potential of contracts as the best-yet compromise between types and tests.
- Scaling Uber: Talk covers the evolution of Uber's architecture and lessons from some of the systems they've built to handle current scaling challenges.
- Designing C# 7: Discuss the design process and language features taking shape in the development of C# 7. C# language development taking place in the open.
- Understanding Realtime Conversations on Facebook: Analyzing insights found from the billions of pieces of content shared each day on Facebook
- Day in the Life of a JVM Engineer @Twitter: Lessons on how and why Twitter optimized OpenJDK from someone doing it.
In addition to the conference itself, QCon San Francisco offers two bonus days of workshops (Nov 19-20). These workshops have some impressive names confirmed, including Erik Meijer (creator of LINQ) and Adrian Crockcroft (led Netflix architecture). QCon’s workshops are focused on hands-on practical skills sought out by developers looking for deep technical training, including:
- React.js Fundamentals by Michael Jackson from React.js Training
- Getting Started with Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry by Josh Long from Pivotal
- Intro to Containers by Kelsey Hightower from CoreOS
- .NET Performance Deep-Dive by Ben Watson from Microsoft
- BUILT FOR USE: Generating Meaningful Requirements by Joe Natoli leading Udemy Trainer
- Hands on with Apache Spark by Hien Luu of LinkedIn
Registration is $2,095 ($400 off) for the 3 day event until Oct 31st, and the price increases afterwards each month. QCon is produced by InfoQ.com.