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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Fransisco 2019

This year’s QCon San Fransisco featured 177 speakers, track hosts, workshop presenters, and committee members. These are people like one of the foremost thinkers in the DevOps movement John Willis, CEO/Co-Founder of DarkLang Ellen Chisa, and VP Cloud Architecture Strategy @AWSCloud Adrian Cockcroft.

Abel Avram Wesley Resiz
on Dec 18, 2019
Architecture & Design

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2019

The 8th edition of QCon New York (June 24-26, 2019) wasn’t just a software conference; it was the software conference where leading shops like Slack, Google, Uber, and Netflix opened their doors and shared engineering successes and failures. Over 1200 software engineers came together for technical talks, panels, AMAs, open spaces and networking at QCon.

Abel Avram
on Aug 17, 2019
Culture & Methods

Power to the People: Unleashing Teams through Liberating Structures

Liberating Structures are a great way for teams to find their voice. They make this happen by asking us to think creatively about the kinds of invitations we are making, and by subverting the normal power dynamics in a meeting. In this article, Greg Myer shares how he is using Liberating Structures at Capital One.

Greg Myers
on Jun 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

Why Should We Care about Technology Ethics? The Updated ACM Code of Ethics

The 2018 rewrite of the ACM code of ethics and professional conduct has brought it up-to-date with new technologies and societal demands. This code supports the ethical conduct of computing professionals through a set of guidelines for positively working in the tech industry.

Ben Linders Catherine Flick
on Jun 05, 2019
Architecture & Design

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2019

QCon returned to London this past March for its thirteenth year in the city, attracting 1,500 senior developers, architects, and team leads.

Abel Avram
on Apr 19, 2019
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2018

This year around 1,600 attendees descended on the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco for the twelfth annual QCon. Software engineers, architects, and project managers from a wide range of industries including some prominent Bay-area companies - attended 99 technical sessions across 6 concurrent tracks, 13 ask me anything sessions with speakers, 18 in-depth workshops, and 8 facilitated open spaces.

Abel Avram
on Dec 26, 2018
Culture & Methods

Microservices from a Startup Perspective

When starting a journey to microservices, knowing what to consider might be overwhelming. No golden rule that is easily applicable exists. Every journey is different, since every organization is facing different circumstances. In this article I am sharing some lessons learned and challenges from a startup perspective, and what I would do differently the next time introducing microservices.

Susanne Kaiser
on Aug 19, 2018
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2018

This year, at the seventh annual QCon New York, we had in total 143 speakers across the 117 sessions, workshops, AMAs, Open Spaces and mini-workshops. Topics included containers and orchestration, machine learning, ethics, modern user interfaces, microservices, blockchain, empowered teams, modern Java, DevEX, Serverless, chaos and resilience, Go, Rust, Elixir, and security.

Abel Avram
on Aug 01, 2018
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2018

QCon (the international software conference for senior developers, architects, and tech leads) recently celebrated its twelfth year in London. Located at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference just steps from Westminster Abbey and Big Ben, this year’s event attracted 1,350 tech leaders in software and offered 136 technical deep dives, open spaces, and AMAs (Ask Me Anything) to attendees.

Abel Avram
on Apr 18, 2018
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2017

The eleventh annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,800 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors.

Abel Avram
on Dec 14, 2017
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2017

The sixth annual QCon New York was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,100 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors - up from last year's record of 940. It was also the first to take place in our new home in Times Square.

Abel Avram
on Aug 08, 2017
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2017

This year was the 11th for QCon London; it was also our largest London event to date. Including our 140 speakers we had 1435 team leads, architects, and project managers attending 112 technical sessions across 18 concurrent editorial tracks and 16 in-depth workshops.

Abel Avram
on Apr 18, 2017