With 58/100 speakers confirmed, the 8th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 3-7, 2014) is expected to draw over 1,000 team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers for three days of practitioner-delivered talks. Come hear about the latest innovations in Data Science, Java, Mobile, Machine Learning, Continuous Delivery, Agile, Engineering Culture, and More. Register before Sept 13th and save $500.
Some of this year's popular tracks - based on QConSF.com site page views - include:
Scalable Microservice Architectures
Coined by Netflix, microservices are being adopted by a growing number of companies. Pioneering practitioners of this architectural pattern deploy hundreds of microservices in the cloud and in private data centers. Talks in this track include:
- Organizing your company to embrace Microservices, by Paul Osman, Director of Platform Engineering at 500px
- Scalable Microservices at Netflix. Challenges and Tools of the Trade, by Sudhir Tonse, Responsible for Netflix Cloud Platform
- Building and Deploying Microservices with Event Sourcing, CQRS, and Docker, by Chris Richardson, Java Champion and Author of POJOs in Action
With the release of Java 8 and planning already underway for Java 9+, the entire 9M+ Java community is energized in learning more about the latest additions to the Java platform and ecosystem. Talks in this track include:
- Debugging Java 8: New Techniques for Fixing Production Code, by Tal Weiss, Co-founder and CEO at Takipia
- Towards Faster Java Data Structures: Object Layout and Structured Array, by Gil Tene, CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems
- Stuff I Learned About Performance, by Mike Barker, LMAX Disruptor maintainer, Duke's choice award winner
Continuous Delivery: From Heroics to Becoming Invisible Successful
Continuous Delivery adoption culminates in habits, processes and tooling that become so ingrained and natural to the daily routines of the organization as to become invisible. Talks in this track include:
- The Art of the Builds, by Hans Dockter, Founder of Gradle and Gradleware
- How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Deploying the Netflix API Service, by Sangeeta Narayanan, Manager, Edge Infrastructure & Delivery at Netflix
- Continuous Delivery Without Breaking Everything, by Andy Vaughn, Software Engineering Lead at MindTouch, Inc.
Registration, is $1,895 ($500 off for the 3 day event until Sept 13th, and increases afterwards every month). QCon is produced by InfoQ.com.
Note: QCon discounts are available on groups as small as 3 attendees. For more details and to apply for a discount code, please contact info@qconsf.com .