Uncover emerging trends and practices from the world’s most innovative software professionals to help you validate your software roadmap. Celebrating 20 years.
Something About Distributed Systems at #QConSF 2026 (Nov 16-20), hosted by Vidhya Arvind @Netflix.
Building and operating in production: latency, consistency, failure, scale.
Check out the track 👉 bit.ly/446eZyI
QCon London 2027 registration is open.
April 13-15. 75 senior practitioners, 15 tracks, no hidden product pitches.
The speakers have already shipped what you're planning.
Current pricing ends July 14.
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20 years of InfoQ. 🎂 We're hearing from our editors.
Olimpiu Pop, one of our InfoQ editors: a community where senior and junior developers connect, collaborate, and learn from one another.
Thanks, @olimpiupop! La mulți ani! #InfoQ20
The InfoQ Certified Architect Program is for senior engineers and architects carrying a decision they’ve been sitting with for a while, finally getting feedback from people with no stake in how the answer lands.
June 10. Last day to register.
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20 years of InfoQ! 🎂 We're celebrating by hearing from the editors who build our community.
Almir Vuk, InfoQ Lead .NET Editor, went from reader to contributor to editor - growing as an engineer and speaker along the way.
Thanks, @almirvuk! Sretan rođendan!
#InfoQ20
Twenty years ago today #InfoQ version 0.7 was officially launched 🎂
The detail is easy to miss in the original announcement, but it was deliberate. Version numbers, we wrote, "are usually used on software projects, not public websites".
Your platform is supposed to reduce cognitive load. If it's adding it, the trade-offs are worth revisiting.
Check out the Real World Platform Engineering track at #QConSF 2026: bit.ly/4vqHBhS
Data and AI don't fix organizational dysfunction. They scale it. Week 5 of the Organizational Architect cohort with Manuel Pais covers this.
Starts June 19.
Check out the full program here: bit.ly/4e4mScN
Production agents fail underneath the loop: durable state, daily deploys, sandboxes, model portability, observability.
The Architecting for Agents track at #QConSF 2026 works through each layer with practitioners shipping agents in production today: bit.ly/4uHp94J
Reliability without clean ground truth, in environments where mistakes have consequences, is the next AI engineering problem.
Check out the Engineering AI Systems track at #QConSF 2026: bit.ly/4x64vwy
The more senior you get, the fewer people question your architecture calls.
The InfoQ Certified Architect Program is the peer group that does.
June 10. bit.ly/4o4u4KB
🎤 Day 2 opens at #QConAI Boston, with a keynote from Lizzie Matusov, CEO at Quotient, "The Five Stages of AI Maturity in Engineering Organizations, Where & Why Teams Get Stuck."
Most engineering orgs are somewhere on the AI adoption curve, but few have a clear map.
Day 2 at #QConAI Boston 🚀 Today goes deeper on the organisational & architectural side of AI at scale:
💡 How engineering teams are measuring & growing AI maturity
💡 Multi-agent platforms built for real org complexity (Spotify, OpenAI, Elastic)
🧵#AIEngineering#AIConference
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💡AI infrastructure: GPU markets, LLM ranking systems, and cost transparency
💡The agentic SDLC, quality, governance, and deterministic context at scale
💡What 25 trillion tokens tell us about how developers actually adopt AI
#AIConference#AIinProduction
One mission: "help me do my grocery run." Behind it: agentic intent routing, consumer memory, semantic IDs, LLM-supervised search. The agent IS the stack. I'm breaking it down in the Conference Auditorium at #QConAI at Boston today, 3:40 PM. 🤖 @DoorDash AI is pushing the edge!
Halfway through Day 1 at #QConAI Boston insights:
🔹Context is becoming an architecture problem, not just a prompt problem
🔹Trust and safety at scale needs real infrastructure, not just policies
🔹KV cache is one of those levers teams notice when inference costs start to hurt
A theme showing up across #QConAI Boston today: production #AI is mostly a systems problem now.
The model still matters, but the harder questions are around inference cost, latency, context, compliance, security & scaling AI work beyond a few specialists: boston.qcon.ai/schedule/bost…
🎤 Kicking off #QConAI Boston. Keynote from @martin_spier, Engineering Leader @OpenAI "Keeping ChatGPT Fast in the Agentic Era."
Martin dives into the infrastructure & systems thinking behind keeping one of the world's most-used AI products fast at scale: shorturl.at/MctwH
Day 1 of #QConAI Boston! 🎉 Two days of practical, production-focused AI, real systems, real teams, real constraints.
Exploring what practitioners are doing to ship AI safely, scale reliably & build the agentic systems that actually hold up in production: boston.qcon.ai