Conferences / QCon
QCon San Francisco 2022
Oct 24–26, 2022 · Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero), San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Oct 24, 2022 – Oct 26, 2022
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero)
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,000Recap: 'Thank you to the 1,000+ senior software engineers, software architects, and team leads who joined us'.
- Website
- qconsf.com
- Recorded
- 28 sponsors · 157 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Conference Oct 24-26, workshops/trainings Oct 27-28, 2022. Talks from qconsf.com/schedule/oct2022 (unconferences omitted). The four SF keynotes were also the keynotes of the online QCon Plus Nov 29-Dec 9, 2022.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference (3 days) (until March 14) | $2,050 | Mar 14, 2022 | web.archive.org | |
| Conference (3 days) (until October 28) | $3,190 | Oct 28, 2022 | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 28
Speakers and talks 157
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astrid Atkinson | Camus Energy | Keynote | Innovating for the Future You've Never Seen: Distributed Systems Architecture & the Grid | — |
| Joe Hellerstein | UC Berkeley | Keynote | On Beyond Serverless: CALM Lessons and a New Stack for Programming the Cloud | — |
| Kent Beck | KentBeck.com | Keynote | Tidy First? | — |
| Lisa Gelobter | tEQuitable | Keynote | Harnessing Technology for Good — Transformation and Social Impact | — |
| Adam Jacob | System Initiative | Panelist | Panel: Languages of Infrastructure | — |
| Adam Jordan | Shell | Speaker | Bringing Green, Sustainable Software Solutions Into the Enterprise | — |
| Adit Madan | Alluxio | Speaker | Architecting Your Data Platform Across Clusters, Regions, and Clouds | — |
| Aditi Gupta | Netflix | Speaker | Scaling Defenses Amidst Evolving Threat Landscape | — |
| Aditi Gupta | Netflix | Panelist | Panel: Practical Security | — |
| Adrian Cockcroft | OrionX.net | Speaker | AMA w/ Adrian Cockcroft | — |
| Adrian Cockcroft | OrionX.net | Speaker | DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations | — |
| Akhilesh Gupta | Speaker | The Secret to Finding Impactful Projects to Land a Staff-Plus Engineer Role | — | |
| Akhilesh Gupta | Speaker | The Staff-Plus Engineer Path Panel | — | |
| Akshat Vig | MongoDB | Speaker | Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service | — |
| Alex Cole | Convex | Speaker | Everyone Can Be a Full-Stack Engineer | — |
| Alex Cole | Convex | Panelist | Panel: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend | — |
| Alex Smolen | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Vulnerability Inbox Zero | — |
| Alex Smolen | Amazon Web Services | Panelist | Panel: Practical Security | — |
| Alexandra Sunderland | Fellow.app | Panelist | [Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now? | — |
| Alexandra Sunderland | Fellow.app | Speaker | Leveraging Hybrid One-on-Ones for Better Connections | — |
| Allen Wang | DoorDash | Speaker | Data Pipeline AMA w/ Sid Anand & Allen Wang | — |
| Allen Wang | DoorDash | Speaker | From Zero to A Hundred Billion: Building Scalable Real Time Event Processing At DoorDash | — |
| Amy Tobey | Equinix | Panelist | [Panel] SRE: Is it Working? | — |
| Amy Tobey | Equinix | Speaker | The Endgame of SRE | — |
| Andrew Zigler | Mattermost | Speaker | Open Source Your Software Development Lifecycle | — |
| Asif Iqbal | Alimentation Couche-Tard | Speaker | Modeling Patterns for Digital Transformation | — |
| Asif Iqbal | Alimentation Couche-Tard | Speaker | AMA: Optimizing Teams | — |
| Benjamin Wilms | Steadybit | Speaker | How to Build Reliable Systems Under Unpredictable Conditions | — |
| Brandon Byars | Thoughtworks | Speaker | DevOps AMA w/ Brandon Byars | — |
| Brandon Byars | Thoughtworks | Speaker | API Evolution Without Versioning | — |
| Brandon Byars | Thoughtworks | Panelist | [Panel] Who Cares About Your API? | — |
| Brian Douglas | Paper Compute Co | Speaker | Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript | — |
| Brian Douglas | Paper Compute Co | Panelist | Panel: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend | — |
| Brian Elliott | Slack | Speaker | The Future of Work: How Flexibility Unlocks Potential for People and Organizations | — |
| Brian Elliott | Slack | Panelist | [Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now? | — |
| Brian LeRoux | Begin | Panelist | Panel: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend | — |
| Brian LeRoux | Begin | Speaker | Enhance: SSR for Web Components | — |
| Casey Rosenthal | — | Speaker | Chaos Engineering AMA w/ Haley Tucker, Casey Rosenthall, & Christina Yakomin | — |
| Cassandra Shum | — | Speaker | [Recording] Overcomplicated Architecture: Scaling Bottleneck | — |
| Charity Majors | Honeycomb | Speaker | The Staff-Plus Engineer Path Panel | — |
| Charity Majors | Honeycomb | Speaker | The Engineer/Manager Pendulum | — |
| Chip Huyen | Claypot AI | Speaker | Real-Time Machine Learning: Architecture and Challenges | — |
| Chris Richardson | — | Panelist | Panel: Building Performant Microservice Architectures | — |
| Chris Richardson | — | Speaker | Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?! | — |
| Chris Swan | Atsign | Panelist | Panel: Building Modern Backends | — |
| Chris Swan | Atsign | Speaker | Backends in Dart | — |
| Christina Yakomin | Vanguard | Panelist | [Panel] SRE: Is it Working? | — |
| Christina Yakomin | Vanguard | Speaker | Did the Chaos Test Pass? | — |
| Christina Yakomin | Vanguard | Speaker | Chaos Engineering AMA w/ Haley Tucker, Casey Rosenthall, & Christina Yakomin | — |
| Cody De Arkland | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | [Workshop] Targeting and Shipping - Building Features with LaunchDarkly | — |
| Collette Tauscher | Columbia Sportswear Company | Speaker | AMA: Optimizing Teams | — |
| Collette Tauscher | Columbia Sportswear Company | Speaker | Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow | — |
| Courtney Nash | — | Panelist | [Panel] SRE: Is it Working? | — |
| Courtney Nash | — | Speaker | Rethinking Reliability: What You Can (and Can't) Learn From Incidents | — |
| Daniel Ceasar Paul Jalathyan | Zoho | Speaker | Understanding Analytics and Data-driven Decision Making | — |
| Deepa Goyal | Postman | Panelist | [Panel] Who Cares About Your API? | — |
| Deepa Goyal | Postman | Speaker | What API Product Managers Need | — |
| Denise Yu | — | Speaker | Generous, High Fidelity Communication Is the Key to a Safe, Effective Team | — |
| Denise Yu | — | Panelist | Panel: "Just" Engineering Culture | — |
| Dylan Etkin | Sleuth | Speaker | Four Steps to Unlocking Your Ability to Deploy Multiple Times a Day | — |
| Dylan Lacey | Sauce Labs | Speaker | Are Programming languages... *Actually* Languages? | — |
| Eder Ignatowicz | Red Hat | Speaker | How Community Engagement Can Boost Your Staff-Plus Career | — |
| Eder Ignatowicz | Red Hat | Speaker | The Staff-Plus Engineer Path Panel | — |
| Esteban Küber | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Efficient Language and Library Use to Reduce Carbon | — |
| Esteban Küber | Amazon Web Services | Panelist | Panel: DevSusOps | — |
| Facundo Agriel | Dropbox | Speaker | Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System | — |
| Francesco Beltramini | ControlPlane | Speaker | Untrusted Execution: Attacking the Cloud Native Supply Chain | — |
| Frank Yu | Coinbase | Panelist | Panel: Building Modern Backends | — |
| Frank Yu | Coinbase | Speaker | Leveraging Determinism | — |
| Frederic Branczyk | Polar Signals | Speaker | Observability AMA | — |
| Frederic Branczyk | Polar Signals | Panelist | Panel: Languages of Infrastructure | — |
| Frederic Branczyk | Polar Signals | Speaker | eBPF AMA w/ Frederic Branczyk & Jim Barton | — |
| Frederic Branczyk | Polar Signals | Speaker | Sprinkling eBPF Onto Your Observability | — |
| Greg Hamer | Backblaze | Speaker | Optimal Data Storage Choices - Data Lakes vs Databases | — |
| Haley Tucker | — | Speaker | Chaos Engineering AMA w/ Haley Tucker, Casey Rosenthall, & Christina Yakomin | — |
| Hector Veiga Ortiz | Tesla | Speaker | Tesla's Virtual Power Plant | — |
| Herak Sen | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Engineering Considerations for Running Machine Learning Models at the Edge: Application in Body Scanning for eCommerce | — |
| Ian Thomas | Meta | Speaker | Orchestration vs Choreography, A Guide To Composing Your Monolith | — |
| Ian Thomas | Meta | Panelist | Panel: Building Performant Microservice Architectures | — |
| Jacob Scott | Stripe | Panelist | Panel: "Just" Engineering Culture | — |
| Jacob Scott | Stripe | Speaker | How Did It Make Sense at the Time? Understanding Incidents As They Occurred, Not as They Are Remembered | — |
| James McGill | Code Climate | Speaker | Tailor Your Processes to be as Data-Driven as Your Systems | — |
| Javier Fernandez-Ivern | Netflix | Speaker | Stress Free Change Validation at Netflix | — |
| Javier Fernandez-Ivern | Netflix | Speaker | Enabling Change @ Scale Roundtable | — |
| Jayashree Atre | Walmart | Speaker | AMA: Optimizing Teams | — |
| Jenn Lin | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Engineering Considerations for Running Machine Learning Models at the Edge: Application in Body Scanning for eCommerce | — |
| Jennifer Davis | Speaker | Navigating Complex Environments and Evolving Relationships | — | |
| Jennifer Davis | Speaker | AMA: Optimizing Teams | — | |
| Jesse McGinnis | Shopify | Panelist | [Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now? | — |
| Jesse McGinnis | Shopify | Speaker | Building High-Trust and High-Performing Teams at Shopify in a Remote World | — |
| Jessica DeVita | Microsoft | Speaker | Reckoning with the Harm We Do: In Search of Restorative Just Culture in Software and Web Operations | — |
| Jessica DeVita | Microsoft | Panelist | Panel: "Just" Engineering Culture | — |
| Jessica Kerr | Honeycomb | Speaker | Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed Up Our Servers | — |
| Jim Barton | Solo.io | Panelist | [Panel] Who Cares About Your API? | — |
| Jim Barton | Solo.io | Speaker | eBPF AMA w/ Frederic Branczyk & Jim Barton | — |
| Jim Barton | Solo.io | Speaker | Sidecars, eBPF and the Future of Service Mesh | — |
| Joe Duffy | Pulumi | Speaker | Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future | — |
| Joe Duffy | Pulumi | Panelist | Panel: Languages of Infrastructure | — |
| Juncheng Yang | — | Speaker | Ubiquitous Caching: A Journey of Building Efficient Distributed and In-Process Caches at Twitter | — |
| Juncheng Yang | — | Panelist | Panel: Building Modern Backends | — |
| Justin Cormack | Docker | Speaker | Programming Your Policies | — |
| Justin Cormack | Docker | Panelist | Panel: Languages of Infrastructure | — |
| Katharine Jarmul | Thoughtworks | Speaker | The Staff-Plus Engineer Path Panel | — |
| Katharine Jarmul | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Unraveling Techno-Solutionism: How I Fell Out of Love with “Ethical” Machine Learning | — |
| Kunal Shah | DoorDash | Speaker | Fabricator: End-to-End Declarative Feature Engineering Platform | — |
| Laurie Voss | Arize AI | Speaker | What the Data Says: Emerging Technical Trends in Front-End and How They Affect You | — |
| Laurie Voss | Arize AI | Panelist | Panel: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend | — |
| Lena Reinhard | Lena Reinhard Leadership Coaching & Consulting | Panelist | [Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now? | — |
| Lena Reinhard | Lena Reinhard Leadership Coaching & Consulting | Speaker | Successful Leadership in Hybrid Environments: Powerful Principles, Practical Steps, and Poignant Examples | — |
| Linus Hakansson | Gravitee | Speaker | A Guide to the Event-Native World of Open Standards: AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, and Shared Signals & Events | — |
| Lisa McNally | Thoughtworks | Speaker | The Zen of Green Software: Finding Balance in the Sustainable Growth Journey | — |
| Lucia Brizuela | Mercado Libre | Speaker | Scaling From 2K Engineers to 12K Engineers and 10K Deploys per Day | — |
| Marcel van Lohuizen | CUE Project | Panelist | Panel: Languages of Infrastructure | — |
| Marcel van Lohuizen | CUE Project | Speaker | Taming Configuration Complexity Made Fun with CUE | — |
| Marco Valtas | Thoughtworks | Panelist | Panel: DevSusOps | — |
| Marco Valtas | Thoughtworks | Speaker | The Zen of Green Software: Finding Balance in the Sustainable Growth Journey | — |
| Mark Saroufim | Meta | Speaker | An Open Source Infrastructure for PyTorch | — |
| Mehnaaz Abidi | Adidas | Speaker | [Recording] How to Win as a Tech Team in a New Reality That Feels Like a Mad Max Movie? | — |
| Mei-Chin Tsai | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale | — |
| Mei-Chin Tsai | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure Cosmos DB AMA w/ Mei-Chin Tsai & Vinod Sridharan | — |
| Michelle Brush | Speaker | Recipes for Blameless Accountability | — | |
| Mykyta Protsenko | Netflix | Speaker | Enabling Change @ Scale Roundtable | — |
| Mykyta Protsenko | Netflix | Speaker | Dark Side of DevOps | — |
| Natalie DellaMaria | Tesla | Speaker | Tesla's Virtual Power Plant | — |
| Nimisha Asthagiri | Thoughtworks | Panelist | Panel: Practical Security | — |
| Nimisha Asthagiri | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Privacy-First Re-Architecture | — |
| Oscar Mullin | Mercado Libre | Speaker | Service Abstractions to Cloud Service Providers: A Tale of Trade-Offs | — |
| Peter McCarron | LaunchDarkly | Speaker | Kubernetes and LaunchDarkly; The Junction of Deploy and Software | — |
| Peter McCarron | LaunchDarkly | Speaker | [Workshop] Targeting and Shipping - Building Features with LaunchDarkly | — |
| Pratik Patel | Azul | Speaker | Performance Testing Java Applications | — |
| Richard Bair | Hedera | Speaker | Is Web3 Here to Stay? | — |
| Roman de Oliviera | Ably | Speaker | A Million People want a Million Things and They Want Them Now: How to Meet Personalised User Demands in Realtime | — |
| Sasha Rosenbaum | Red Hat | Speaker | The Eternal Sunshine of the Toil-Less Prod | — |
| Sasha Rosenbaum | Red Hat | Panelist | [Panel] SRE: Is it Working? | — |
| Sebastian Barrios | Mercado Libre | Speaker | Scaling From 2K Engineers to 12K Engineers and 10K Deploys per Day | — |
| Shreya Rajpal | Guardrails AI | Speaker | Declarative Machine Learning: A Flexible, Modular and Scalable Approach for Building Production ML Models | — |
| Stuart Sim | Build by McKinsey | Speaker | Building Agile Data Architectures in Support of Digital Twins and Data Products | — |
| Tapabrata Pal | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | Log4Shell Response Patterns & Learnings From Them | — |
| Tapabrata Pal | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | Enabling Change @ Scale Roundtable | — |
| Tejas Shikhare | Netflix | Speaker | Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix | — |
| Tejas Shikhare | Netflix | Panelist | [Panel] Who Cares About Your API? | — |
| Tejas Shikhare | Netflix | Speaker | GraphQL AMA w/Tejas Shikhare | — |
| Todd Montgomery | Adaptive Financial Consulting | Panelist | Panel: Building Performant Microservice Architectures | — |
| Todd Montgomery | Adaptive Financial Consulting | Speaker | 24/7 State Replication | — |
| Tom Wanielista | Lyft | Speaker | Enabling Change @ Scale Roundtable | — |
| Tom Wanielista | Lyft | Speaker | Adopting Continuous Deployment at Lyft | — |
| Tonya Sims | Deepgram | Speaker | Discover Inspirational Insights in Motivational Sports Speeches Using Speech-to-Text | — |
| Travis McPeak | Resourcely | Panelist | Panel: Practical Security | — |
| Travis McPeak | Resourcely | Speaker | A Big Dashboard of Problems | — |
| Trevor Hunter | Kobo Inc | Speaker | Our Journey Into High Performance and Reliable Document Databases with RavenDB | — |
| Troy Goode | Courier | Speaker | Engineering an API First Product | — |
| Vanessa Huerta Granda | Enova | Panelist | Panel: "Just" Engineering Culture | — |
| Vinod Sridharan | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale | — |
| Vinod Sridharan | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure Cosmos DB AMA w/ Mei-Chin Tsai & Vinod Sridharan | — |
| Wanderlei Souza | Build by McKinsey | Speaker | Building Resilient Microservices: The Hard Parts of a Distributed Architecture | — |
| Zhamak Dehghani | Stealth Startup | Speaker | Data Mesh: Are We There Yet? | — |
| Zhe Zhang | Anyscale | Speaker | Ray: The Next Generation Compute Runtime for ML Applications | — |