"One of the most fun and intellectually intimate conferences I have joined. The open sessions were excellent – total serendipity."
Conference:March 6-8, 2017
Workshops:March 9-10, 2017
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QCon London Report - Summaries of top talks – by attendees and InfoQ editors
This eMag provides a round-up of what we and some of our attendees felt were the most important sessions from QCon London 2016, including Microservices, Containers, Modern Native Languages, Continuous Delivery, Programming in GO, and Applying Failure Testing at Netflix.
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Tracks
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Applied JavaScript
Angular, React, Electron, Node: The hottest trends and techniques in the JavaScript space.
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Architecting for Failure
Building fault tolerate systems that are truly resilient
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
QCon classic track. You know the names. Hear their lessons and challenges.
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Containers - State Of The Art
What is the state of the art, what's next, & other interesting questions on containers.
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Dark Code: The Legacy/Tech Debt Dilemma
How do you evolve your code and modernize your architecture when you're stuck with part legacy code and technical debt? Lessons from the trenches.
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Data Engineering : Where the Rubber meets the Road in Data Science
Science does not imply engineering. Engineering tools and techniques for Data Scientists
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Engineering Culture @ <insert cool company names here>
Culture, Organization Structure, Modern Agile War Stories
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Fast & Furious: Ad Serving, Finance, & Performance
Learn some of the tips and technicals of high speed, low latency systems in Ad Serving and Finance
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Java: Interesting Stuff in the Space
What do you need to know about Java: JDK9, low latency, and more.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied, practical, & real-world dive into industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Modern Distributed Architectures
Migrating, deploying, and realizing modern cloud architecture.
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Modern Learning Systems
Deepmind, Tensorflow, AI, Deep Learning, Autonomous Vehicles to log analysis. Learning systems are potentially major disruptions to our systems and ways of thinking.
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Observability Done Right: Automating Insight & Software Telemetry
Tools, practices, and methods to know what your system is doing
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Performance Mythbusting
Performance myths that need busting and the tools & techniques to get there.
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Practical Cryptography & Blockchains: Beyond the Hype
Looking past the hype of blockchain technologies, alternate title: Weaselfree Cryptography & Blockchain
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Security: The Attacker's Mindset
How Attackers Think. Penetration testing techniques, exploits, toolsets, and skills of software hackers
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Softskills: Essential Skills for Developers
Skills for the developer in the workplace
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Workhorse Languages, Not Called Java
Workhorse languages not called Java.
Learn from leading engineering innovators
Bleeding-edge for the Enterprise
Bring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to your team
Tensorflow
Apache Beam
Java 9
Deep Learning
Petabyte Scale Analytics
Unikernels
Stream Processing
Property-Based Testing
Chatbots
TC39 ECMAScript
Recommendation Engines
RxJS
Lambda/Serverless
Architecting for Failure
DevOps
Microservices Implementation
Reactive
Containers
More than 150 speakers
Over 150 more speakers...
Engineers over Evangelists,
Practitioners over Trainers/Coaches,
Team Leads over Consultants
Attendees talk about the Speakers
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Keynotes
This Year
High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
BigData and Cloud Architect
Last Year
Venture Partner at Accel Partners, Author of 'The Morning Paper', previously held CTO roles at SpringSource, VMware, and Pivotal.
Keynote
Unevenly Distributed
Unevenly Distributed
ACM Distinguished Member and SEI Fellow who previously was Software Engineering Institute's Chief Scientist and Director of Research,...
Workshops
London Venue
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London
The Centre is located opposite Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament and with views of Big Ben and the British Airways London Eye. The location is minutes from the West End of London offering a whole host of bars, pubs, cafes, restaurants and hotels to make your visit to our venue and London, fun, relaxed and enjoyable.
Conference Venue
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster
London SW1P 3EE
Hotel
Benefit from our negotiated rates
for QCon Attendees
in various hotels close to the Conference Venue
Open Space
Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
Why are we doing Open Space?
We’re doing Open Space at QCon because we want this conference to be yours. At QCon, we learn from the best and share with the best.
We come with passions and ideas that we want to share with each other. We want to connect with each other, create community around topics that we’re passionate about.
Social Events
Come attend to mingle and network with other speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.
Things you’ll be enjoying at QCon London
- High quality lunch and snacks with option for vegetarians and gluten free
- Breaks between sessions to network with your peers
- Receptions with drinks and snacks to recap the day
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The Experience We Bring
Leading Architects talk about
the other attendees
Is QCon Right for You?
Our attendees roles are:
Software Developer / Programmer/ Engineer
Senior Developer / Engineer
Technical Team Lead and Higher (including):
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Technical Team Lead
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Senior Management (VP, CTO, CIO, Director)
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Architect: Technical / Application (platform specific)
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Enterprise Architect / Chief Architect
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Architect: Solution / Systems
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Technical Project Manager
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Meet and Learn from Your Peers
25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”
25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”
Mingle and network with other attendees, speakers & sponsors.
Open Spaces
Open Spaces
Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
Discussion Café
Discussion Café
Lunch will feature sections of smaller tables for 4 around particular topics where you can meet each other in a more comfortable setting, in addition to the usual large 10 seat conference lunch tables.
Social Events
Social Events
Conference Social & Dinner, Exhibitor & Hospitality Receptions. Opportunities to mingle, eat, drink and network with speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.
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Healthy QCon
Different menu items:
Vegan or Vegetarian
Gluten-Free
Dairy-Free
Past Years
Applying Trendy Technologies to NASA Mission Operations Planning
by Mark Powell
Mark Powell presents examples of how NASA uses innovative technologies in missions such as Mars Exploration Rovers, the Cassini Saturn Orbiter, the Phoenix Mars Lander as well as new technology projects including the JPL Aerobot and the ATHLETE prototype lunar robotic vehicle.
Speaker Bio:
Mark Powell is a Senior Computer Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA since 2001, being the product lead for the Mars Science Laboratory mission science planning interface (MSLICE).
Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning @twitter
by Attila Szegedi
Attila Szegedi shares lessons learned tuning the JVM at Twitter, spending most of his talk discussing memory tuning, CPU usage tuning, and lock contention tuning.
Speaker Bio:
Attila Szegedi is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle. He is also known for his work on several Open Source projects, most notably he is a contributor to Mozilla Rhino, Kiji, Dynalink and the FreeMarker templating language runtime.
Scala: Simplifying Development at guardian.co.uk
by Graham Tackley
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.
Speaker Bio:
Graham Tackley is the Web Platform Team Lead for guardian.co.uk and a Pragmatic Scala Adopter.
Web Development: You're Doing It Wrong
by Stefan Tilkov
Stefan Tilkov challenges many commonly-held assumptions about how to best develop web applications, emphasizing the strengths and ideal roles for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP and URIs.
Speaker Bio:
Stefan Tilkov is Co-founder and Principal Consultant at innoQ, where he spends his time alternating between advising customers on new technologies and taking the blame from his co-workers for doing so.
A Call for Sanity in NoSQL
by Nathan Marz
Nathan Marz discusses building NoSQL-based data systems that are scalable and easy to reason about.
Speaker Bio:
Nathan Marz is the creator of many open source projects which are relied upon by over 50 companies around the world, including Cascalog and Storm.
Exploiting Loopholes in CAP
by Michael Nygard
Michael Nygard discusses several loopholes in the CAP theorem that can be used to engineer practical, real-world systems with desirable features.
Speaker Bio:
Michael Nygard has written and co-authored several books, including "Release It!", "Beautiful Architecture", "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" and "Java Developer’s Reference".
Understanding and Using Regular Expressions
by Damian Conway
Damian Conway discusses what regexes really are, how they actually work, and how programmers can make use of their existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient regexes.
Speaker Bio:
Damian Conway is a well-known member of the international Perl community. A widely sought-after speaker and teacher, he is also the author of several technical books as well as numerous Perl software modules.
Practicing at the Cutting Edge
by Martin Thompson
Martin Thompson focuses on the evolution of Java and how it contrasts to C/C++, covering the cultural challenges of pushing the limits of performance and how to collaborate with industry experts and organize teams, which often stands at odds with the culture in many organisations.
Speaker Bio:
Martin Thompson is a high-performance and low-latency specialist, with over two decades working with large scale transactional and big-data systems, in the automotive, gaming, financial, mobile, and CMS domains.
Organizational Change Myths - Introduction and Sustainability
by Linda Rising
Linda Rising challenges organizational myths like "it's enough to have smart people" or "just have a transition plan and explain it" and it will work out, introducing and sustaining new ideas.
Speaker Bio:
Linda Rising has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics and a background that includes university teaching and industry work in telecommunications, avionics, and strategic weapons systems.
Lambdas & Streams
by Simon Ritter
Simon Ritter discusses the syntax and use of Lambda expressions, focusing on using Streams to greatly simplify the way bulk and aggregate operations are handled in Java.
Speaker Bio:
Simon Ritter is a Java Technology Evangelist at Oracle Corporation. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.
Back to the Future
Emma Langman explores the usefulness of some of the Quality tools that have been around since the 50s for gathering requirements, tackling repeat problems, or innovating more efficiently as a team.
Speaker Bio:
Emma Langman is the Manager of HR and Performance at Kuwait Energy, and lives in Kuwait City.
Simple Made Easy
Rich Hickey discusses simplicity, why it is important, how to achieve it in design and how to recognize its absence in the tools, language constructs and libraries.
Speaker Bio:
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, is an independent software designer, consultant and application architect with over 20 years of experience in all facets of software development.
The Power of Abstraction
Abstraction is at the center of much work in Computer Science. It encompasses finding the right interface for a system as well as finding an effective design for a system implementation.
Speaker Bio:
Barbara Liskov is an Institute Professor at MIT, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM.
Fault Tolerance 101
by Joe Armstrong
Joe Armstrong describes the foundations of fault tolerant computation and the basic properties a system should have in order to be able to function in an adequate manner despite the occurrence of hardware and software errors, summarizing the key features of Erlang clusters.
Speaker Bio:
Joe Armstrong is the principle inventor of the Erlang programming Language and coined the term "Concurrency Oriented Programming".
Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
by Tony Hoare
Tony Hoare introduced Null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 “simply because it was so easy to implement”, says Mr. Hoare. He talks about that decision considering it “my billion-dollar mistake”.
Speaker Bio:
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, commonly known as Tony Hoare, is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development in 1960, at age 26, of Quicksort.
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