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Uncover emerging trends and practices from the world’s most innovative software professionals to help you validate your software roadmap. Celebrating 19 years. Learn more about our conferences at QConferences.com and InfoQ.com.

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How do you translate business strategy into a technical roadmap?

Communicate technical debt to executives?

Influence architecture when you're not in the room?

Ian Thomas, @Meta, shares how one QCon talk changed his approach.

QCon London, Mar 16-19: bit.ly/43rJC1W
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
AI generates code 10x faster but creates 3x more review costs. You haven't gained efficiency, you've moved the bottleneck.

Join Jyothi Nookula's #QConSF 2025 (Nov 17-21) session: the frameworks to move from perpetual pilots to measurable impact.

🔗 Explore the session: bit.ly/3XqcSCE
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The real bottleneck in 2025 isn't technology, it's validating it fast enough.

#QConSF 2025 (Nov 17-21): practitioners sharing patterns from production before the rest of the industry catches up.

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#QConSF #AIArchitecture
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Most AI teams are stuck between PoC and production.

At QCon AI NYC (Dec 16-17), practitioners share proven patterns for context engineering, SDLC transformation, evaluation frameworks, and scaling AI infrastructure.

Explore the full schedule: bit.ly/445fvNU

#QConAI
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
What if implementation speed is no longer the bottleneck?

Adam Wolff built Claude Code entirely with agentic AI from day one. His #QConSF 2025 session reveals what engineering looks like when the constraint shifts from execution to judgment.

🔗 Explore Adam's session: bit.ly/4oXCTox
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Most companies aren't blocked by AI technology, they're blocked by organizational readiness.

At QCon AI New York 2025, engineering leaders share their frameworks for moving AI from promising pilots to reliable production systems.

Explore the session: bit.ly/3LnsWlX

#QConAI
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you're attending #QConSF 2025, we've put together a list of hotel options near the venue to help you finalize your travel plans.

San Francisco hotels book up quickly, so if you haven't secured accommodation yet, check out our list.

View hotel options: bit.ly/3WJlNPk
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The AI challenges now: reliability, scalability, and cost at production scale.

At #QConSF 2025 (Nov 17-21) practitioners share how they solved them: from billion-user systems to mobile frontends to token economics.

Early bird ends Nov 11: bit.ly/47BSuDm
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
At QCon AI, Hien Luu, Senior Engineering Manager @Zoox shares the playbook for infusing AI into how teams actually build, not as experiments, but as part of the day-to-day DNA.

Explore the session: bit.ly/47BDyoF

#QConAI #AILeadership
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Building agentic AI for enterprise data isn't just harder; it's a different problem entirely.

At #QConSF 2025, Vinaya Polamreddi, Staff ML Engineer, Agentic AI @Glean, shares the blueprint: system architecture, handling complex data, and automated evaluation frameworks.

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November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Eric Wendelin, track host for QCon San Francisco 2025, picked his favorite sessions from the full program: building influence as a senior IC, prioritization under constraints, and applying AI with a product mindset.

Explore the full schedule: bit.ly/47zS6oN
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
We’re excited to announce the 15 tracks for QCon London 2026 (Mar 16-19).

Curated for senior practitioners navigating AI architecture, distributed systems, and the decisions that will define the next 3 years.

Early bird ends Nov 11: bit.ly/4qKyKq2
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#QConSF 2025 track host Lorin Hochstein, Staff Software Engineer @Airbnb, shares his session picks for QCon SF 2025 (Nov 17-21): resilient platforms, continuous delivery at infrastructure scale, observability innovation, and migration stories.

See the full lineup: bit.ly/4oIBCBN
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
AI agents are moving to production. At QCon AI New York, practitioners from OpenAI, LinkedIn, Google, Walmart & MITRE share real lessons from building agentic systems at scale.

🔗 See the full QCon AI schedule: bit.ly/43JuFrU

#QConAI #AIAgents #ProductionAI
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
AI platforms don't need to choose between deterministic precision and probabilistic exploration. They need both.

Aaron Erickson @NVIDIA shares how to design for reliability at #QConSF 2025.

Early bird ends Nov 11: bit.ly/3JcmpKh

#AI #PlatformEngineering
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Context, not compute, is the bottleneck for AI agents.

Adi Polak @Confluent shows how stream-native context engineering with Kafka & Flink builds memory layers that scale at QCon AI New York 2025.

🔗 Explore the session: bit.ly/4o8YjPC

#QConAI #AIAgents #StreamProcessing
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
From agentic coding tools to reinforcement learning for ad generation to enterprise deep research, senior software practitioners share real lessons from building AI systems at scale at #QConSF 2025.

Early bird ends Nov 11: bit.ly/3JB8nSq

#AI #ProductionAI
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
AI is transforming software development. Interview practices haven't kept pace. Daniel Doubrovkine examines how hiring should evolve for the AI era at QCon AI New York 2025.

Early bird ends Nov 11: bit.ly/4334Kvc

#QConAI #EngineeringInterviews
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Become an InfoQ Certified Software Architect in Emerging Technologies at QCon London 2026.

4-day journey: cohort learning, real-world implementations, hands-on workshop solving architectural challenges.

Learn more: bit.ly/3WZJW4c

#QConLondon #ICSAET
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
How do you keep mainline green across Java, Kotlin, Swift, Go, and Python? Part of #QConSF's Polyglot Platforms track, Dhruva Juloori shares how Uber's MergeQueue handles CI at scale.

Explore the session: bit.ly/3L0b0Oa

#QConSF #CI #DevOps #PolyglotPlatforms
October 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Your RAG system is only as good as what it retrieves.

At QCon AI New York, Sahil Dua, Senior Software Engineer @Google, shows how to finetune embedding models for your domain, moving from generic retrieval to accurate, production-ready context.

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#QConAI #RAG #LLM
October 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The most impactful decisions aren't in design docs, they're the quiet ones you don't realize you're making. Dan Fike shares what they hope you can implement immediately after their QCon San Francisco 2025 keynote.

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#QConSF #EngineeringLeadership
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The secret to AI development velocity isn't sophisticated systems. It's deliberately simple code. Adam Wolff, Engineer on Claude Code @Anthropic, shares lessons from building the first agentic coding tool at #QConSF 2025.

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#QConSF #AI #AgenticCoding
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Language models don't think like humans, and that's why we need to understand them.

Naomi Saphra, Kempner Research Fellow @Harvard University, shares 5 fundamental principles of LM behavior at #QConAI to help you avoid common pitfalls.

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#QConAI #LLM #AIResearch
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Your team needs a shared technical strategy. 🤝

Bring your team to QCon London to:

🔹 Align vision & break silos
🔹 Consistent upskilling
🔹 Flexible learning
🔹 Shared knowledge

Teams of 10+ get a discount: bit.ly/4n9FMBD
October 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM