QCon San Francisco Software Development Conference

Uncover emerging trends and practices from the world’s most innovative software professionals to help you validate your software roadmap. Celebrating 17 years.

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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: https://t.co/yjmMMZnpao

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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. https://t.co/9OvnYgnAMa

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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: https://t.co/yUfDOvIKlm

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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: https://t.co/kMDIsFlumr

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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: https://t.co/8PafcOiKhv

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Training days are available at QCon San Francisco 2026 (Nov 19–20), 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: https://t.co/FXOZIE6vR1

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QCon San Francisco is offering diversity scholarships for 2026 (Nov 16-18).

Applications are open.

Apply: https://t.co/6605EqctTx

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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.
https://t.co/TZXm6eyocr

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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.

🔗 https://t.co/rbNV8UI6eJ

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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.

🔗 https://t.co/xtZ7kgzQbM

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Most consequential engineering decisions don’t 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.
https://t.co/jAoMDeSSoo

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Most architectural bets don’t 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: https://t.co/IA9p1vCAPE

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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: https://t.co/66Di64uwxS

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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. https://t.co/omFtkz2MWJ

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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.

🔗 https://t.co/3LXUmnxu5M

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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.

🔗 https://t.co/PQAYU2wzg6

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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.

🔗 https://t.co/UCuurA4hzv

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At the Staff+ level, an architectural mistake is a 6-month migration.

Join a curated cohort of senior peers at QCon San Francisco to stress-test your strategy and get the peer review your role usually lacks.

Led by @lucamezzalira.

Upgrade your ticket: https://t.co/CPK19NuyEK

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20 years of QCon = 20 years of technical truth.

From Josh Evans’ Netflix talk to the next-gen architectures of 2026, QCon San Francisco is where the standards are set.

Watch Josh Evans' original session: https://t.co/kOs2jQS0l1

Join us this November: https://t.co/Toy393zK1W

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Move past theory.

QCon San Francisco training (Nov 19-20) offers hands-on workshops for senior engineers. Deep dives into:
🔹AI-enabled systems
🔹Evolutionary architecture
🔹Operating at scale

Small classes, real code.

🔗 https://t.co/CEhfITW1Qe