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Growing Yourself as a Software Engineer, Using AI to Develop Software
Sharing your work as a software engineer inspires others, invites feedback, and fosters personal growth, Suhail Patel said at QCon London. Normalizing and owning incidents builds trust, and it supports understanding the complexities. AI enables automation but needs proper guidance, context, and security guardrails.
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Creating Impactful Software Teams That Continuously Improve
Culture shapes how we feel, work, and succeed, says Natan Žabkar Nordberg. People thrive in different environments—some need autonomy, others structure. Trust must be given first, not earned. Leaders should guide, not control, fostering autonomy and safety.
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Combining Continuous Delivery with Pair Programming: Lessons Learned
Pair programming and continuous integration can go hand-in-hand. Pushing to main multiple times a day is hard in isolation, leading to delays, large PRs, and merge issues, Ola Hast and Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom mentioned in their talk about continuous delivery with pair programming at QCon London. Pairing enables instant code review, easier refactoring, fewer bugs, and higher team resilience.
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Growing Your Career towards Senior Roles in Software Development
Flexible working is key to career development, enabling people to stay in tech while balancing personal needs, Sophie Weston said. Flexibility widens the pool of potential talent and enables keeping the best talent. She has championed internal promotions and "squiggly careers," allowing role shifts, including in and out of management, to support long-term growth.
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Green IT: How to Reduce IT’s Environmental Footprint
Green IT focuses on reducing IT’s environmental footprint, by rethinking how you build, deploy, and power IT systems. At QCon London, Ludi Akue presented how her team did a lifecycle assessment, set a 10% emissions reduction goal, simplified architecture, and optimized frontends, to align with climate goals.
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Levelling Yourself up as a Software Engineer While Climbing through the Ranks
As software engineers grow into senior, Staff+, or principal roles, they take on greater responsibility, complex projects, and influence beyond code, Suhail Patel explained in his talk about growing oneself as a software engineer at QCon London. Growth isn’t linear; it requires mastering communication, strategy, and soft influence. Writing, speaking, and 1:1s can help to expand impact.
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How Inclusive Leadership Can Drive Lasting Success in Tech Organizations
Inclusion isn’t something you do once; it should be woven into everything, from how you make decisions to how you structure teams and run meetings.. When people feel seen and heard, they contribute more fully and meaningfully, which sustains long-term success. Matthew Card gave a presentation about leading with an inclusive-first mindset at Qcon London.
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How Pair Programming Enhanced Development Speed, Focus, and Flow
Ola Hast and Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom gave a talk about continuous delivery with pair programming at QCon London. Their team uses pair and mob programming with TDD; there are no solo tasks or separate code reviews. This approach boosts code quality, reduces waste, and enables the sharing of knowledge. Frequent breaks help to maintain focus and flow.
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How to Develop Your Skills to Become a Principal Engineer
Becoming a principal engineer requires more than technical skill, it’s about influence, communication, and strategy. Success means enabling teams by shaping culture, Sophie Weston said. She suggested developing deep skills in multiple domains, with collaborative skills. Skills from life outside work, like sports, volunteering, or gaming, can add valuable perspective and build leadership potential.
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QCon London 2025: How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton, staff engineer at Man Group, presented “How to Build a Database Without a Server” at QCon London 2025. Seaton demonstrated how they migrated an older hedge fund trading system application using a cluster farm that was difficult to maintain to an application using a serverless database and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs).
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QCon London 2025 Day 3: AMQP Politics, Serverless Databases, Betrayal in Security and Architecture
The 19th annual QCon London conference took place at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of presentations by expert practitioners. Day Three, scheduled on April 9th, 2025, included two keynote addresses by John O'Hara and Hannah Foxwell and presentations from five conference tracks.
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Mezzalira at QCon London: Micro-Frontends from Design to Organisational Benefits and Deployments
During his QCon London presentation, Luca Mezzalira, principal architect at AWS, shared his experience in building the ideal micro frontend platform. He disclosed the recipe for determining if micro frontends are right for your company, as well as the core principles of creating the perfect architecture for your use case, and also provided deployment strategies for distributed architectures.
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Scaling API Independence: Akehurst on Mocking, Contract Testing, and Observability
At QCon London 2025, Tom Akehurst spotlighted the path to developer autonomy in microservices through "Scaling API Independence." He emphasized advanced mocking, contract testing, and observability to combat API dependencies. Akehurst showcased how these strategies, enhanced by AI, streamline development, boost productivity, and ensure integration confidence amidst complexity.
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How Developers Can Eliminate Software Waste and Reduce Climate Impact
High performance and sustainability correlate; making software go faster by improving the efficiency of algorithms can reduce energy requirements, Holly Cummins said at QCon London. She suggested switching systems off when not in use to reduce the environmental footprint. Developers can achieve more by doing less, improving productivity, she said.
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QCon London 2025 Day 2: the Form of AI, Securing AI Assistants, WASM Components in FaaS
The 19th annual QCon London conference took place at the The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of presentations by expert practitioners. Day Two, scheduled on April 8th, 2025, included a keynote address by Savannah Kunovsky and presentations from five conference tracks.