| Happy Holidays! From our QCon and InfoQ family to yours, we hope you and your families are sharing special times together! This newsletter contains the table of contents for all the useful blog/tweet coverage of QCon San Francisco organized by session title. The full article has been posted on InfoQ. Early in November around 1,800 attendees descended on the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco for the eleventh annual QCon in the city and the biggest QCon we've held in the US. QCon SF attendees - software engineers, architects, and project managers from a wide range of industries including some prominent Bay-area companies - attended 107 technical sessions across 6 concurrent tracks, 21 in-depth workshops, facilitated open spaces and, as at all English language QCons, had near instant access to all filmed presentations from the event on InfoQ. We tried a number of new things at the event this year including simultaneous text to screen for the keynotes and largest room, and 10 "Ask me Anything" sessions where attendees could talk to speakers in an informal setting. The transcripts from the text to screen will be made available along with the videos on InfoQ. With the role of machine learning a popular discussion topic in the Bay Area our keynote on day two saw Leslie Miley discussing Bias in BigData and where it can lead, near the end connecting it to the role that social platforms play: | We have, for years, have been able to craft systems and platforms with little oversight. And I think that has been, for the most part, a good thing. Those times are changing, and they are actually coming to a close. I would rather be self-regulated than regulated by the government. I'm sure most of you in here would rather be self-regulated than regulated by the government. But you have to start leading today. Don't wait for these problems that we've seen with Twitter and Facebook and Reddit and the other, you know, platforms that have been co-opted by foreign governments to spread false information. |
Some members of InfoQ's team of practitioners-editors were present and filed a number of stories about the event, and we've already started publishing videos on the site. We've included some summaries of the news we produced from the event here, but the main focus for this article is the key takeaways and highlights as blogged and tweeted by attendees. The editorial team covers these sorts of topics on a regular basis. You can subscribe to the Architects' newsletter to stay informed and educated about emerging trends, peer-validated early adoption of technologies, and architectural best practices. If you are interested in a deep-dive you can also try our minibooks and eMags. In one of our latest eMags we curated some of the best DevOps content into a single asset: "Faster, Smarter DevOps". We have also just launched a call for articles. Share your knowledge and best practices with the InfoQ reader by submitting an article to [email protected] by the end of the year and you might win a ticket for one of the Qcons in 2018. Note: The video schedule for QCon San Francisco has also been posted. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online. The publishing schedule can be found on the QCon San Francisco web site, and on Facebook you can see numerous photos from QCon. Table of Contents Keynotes - Bias in BigData/AI and ML
- How to Make a Spaceship
Tracks and Talks 21st Century Languages Architectures You've Always Wondered About - Architecting a Modern Financial Institution
- Scaling Slack
Beyond Being an Individual Contributor - Making a Bigger Impact: Important Skills to Master
- Vision & Strategy - Epiphanies of a Netflix Leader
DevOps: You Build It, You Run It - Designing Services for Resilience Testing @Netflix
Evolving Java - Fresh Async with Kotlin
- Securing Serverless - by Breaking In
- With Great Scalability Comes Great Responsibility
- Hardware Frontiers: Changes Affecting Software Developers Today
Microservices: Patterns and Practices - Managing Data in Microservices
- Microservices: Patterns and Practices Panel
- Microservices: Service Oriented Development
The Art of Chaos Engineering - Chaos Architecture
- Expedia's Journey Toward Site Resiliency
- Failure at Netflix Velocity
The Practice & Frontiers of AI - Automating Netflix ML Pipelines with Meson
- Building Bots and Conversational AI
- Michelangelo: Uber's Machine Learning Platform
- Models in Minutes Not Months: AI as Microservices
The Whole Engineer - Attitude Determines Altitude- Engineering Yourself
- Engineering Inclusion
- The Effective Remote Developer
- The Whole Engineer Panel
Tools and Culture: What's Beyond a Stack of Containers? - Debugging Containerized Microservices
- Going Production with Docker and Swarm
- Managing the Docker Change - Disrupt and Innovate
Web as Platform - Gaining Control with the Web Animations API
- Go Beyond Native with Web-based VR and AR
- Streamlining Online Checkout Using Web Standards
- The WebAssembly Revolution Has Begun
Sponsored Solutions Track 1 - Event-driven Architecture for Real-time Analytics
Sponsored Solutions Track 2 - Using Microservices to Build an API That Lasts
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