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Something About Distributed Systems at #QConSF 2026, hosted by Vidhya Arvind @Netflix.
Building and operating in production: latency, consistency, failure, scale.
Find out more here ๐ bit.ly/4uEkG24
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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/4dOQlIV
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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/4o83GiX
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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/43aq3e2
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Big technical transitions get carried by Staff engineers.
What that work looks like in practice: the Staff Engineering track at QCon San Francisco 2026. bit.ly/4vfHw0z
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You got the LLM working. Now you're dealing with inference cost at real volume and a system that gives a different answer every time.
4 tracks on exactly this at QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18: bit.ly/4tXIL3a
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You solved standardization. Now the challenge is adoption, cognitive load, and AI redefining who writes code on your platform.
3 tracks on this at QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18.
Explore all tracks here: bit.ly/4f5OL6w
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You approved the design doc six months ago. You're still dealing with the tradeoffs.
Architecture decisions compound. 5 tracks on this at QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18.
Explore the tracks here: bit.ly/4tDYGU8
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Training days are available at QCon San Francisco 2026 (Nov 19โ20), right after the conference.
Hands-on workshops from senior practitioners. Smaller groups, focused topics, time to actually work through the material.
Add to your pass: bit.ly/4uK6owW
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QCon San Francisco is offering diversity scholarships for 2026 (Nov 16-18).
Applications are open.
Apply: bit.ly/4tWBB09
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The QCon San Francisco hotel block at the Hyatt Regency is already 65% booked, six months out.
Staying at the venue keeps you in the conversation between sessions.
Nov 16-18. Early bird May 12.
bit.ly/49qYY9G
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QCon San Francisco 2026 tracks are out.
12 tracks, 60 speakers. Architecting for agents, guardrails and safety nets (evals), staff engineering skills, DevEx as an architecture concern, and more.
Nov 16-20. Current pricing ends May 12.
๐ bit.ly/4tR1YED
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Luca Mezzalira on what the in-person Certified Architect cohort at QCon San Francisco covers: ADRs, team topologies, trade-off mapping, and Architecture Decision Forums.
QCon San Francisco, Nov 16-20. Early bird ends May 12.
๐ bit.ly/3Qqipcf
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Most consequential engineering decisions donโt happen in design docs. Shawna Martell @Imprint and Dan Fike @Carta on the invisible choices that quietly shape your systems and culture.
QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18. Early bird ends April 14.
bit.ly/41y8BPG
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Most architectural bets donโt announce themselves as permanent at the time. Akshat Vig and Andrew Davidson (MongoDB) on the decisions that actually shaped the product from the start.
Worth watching before QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18.
Watch here: bit.ly/4c162fc
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Early in your career? The QCon San Francisco 2026 volunteer program gives you free access to sessions and recordings in exchange for onsite support.
Conference: Nov 16-18, San Francisco. Apply: bit.ly/4cbPi3r
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AI makes code faster to write. It also makes every downstream bottleneck more expensive. Watch the Nicole Forsgren keynote on the real constraint from QCon San Francisco 2025.
Worth watching before QCon San Francisco 2026. Early bird ends April 14. bit.ly/4v39rBD
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As AI takes on more engineering work, what does the job actually become? Michelle Brush, Engineering Director, SRE @Google addressed it head-on at QCon San Francisco 2025.
Worth watching before QCon San Francisco, Nov 16-18. Early bird ends April 14.
๐ bit.ly/47v8Puu
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One of the most viewed talks from QCon San Francisco: "Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?" (2018). Holds up differently now that Rust is in the Linux kernel.
QCon San Francisco 2026 is November 16-20. Early bird ends April 14.
๐ bit.ly/4sBcXl3
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QCon San Francisco is programmed by practitioners, not organizers.
The 2026 committee: engineers from Netflix, Zoox, Momento, Monzo, Quotient, and Blackbaud, selecting talks based on what they're seeing in production right now.
๐ bit.ly/4rqdbtQ
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