Conferences / QCon
QCon San Francisco 2023
Oct 2–4, 2023 · Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero), San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Oct 2, 2023 – Oct 4, 2023
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero)
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 970Recap: 'Thank you to the 970+ senior software engineers, software architects, and team leads'.
- Website
- qconsf.com
- Recorded
- 0 sponsors · 97 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Conference Oct 2-4, trainings Oct 5-6, 2023. Talks from qconsf.com/schedule/oct2023. Sponsors not found (no archived sponsors page near the event; the live page now shows the 2026 list).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person Conference (3 days) (until February 14) | $2,150 | Feb 14, 2023 | web.archive.org | |
| In-person Conference (3 days) (until October 6) | $3,350 | Oct 6, 2023 | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 0
No sponsors recorded
Speakers and talks 97
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heather McKelvey | Keynote | Mission, Culture, and Values: Using Them to Guide Your Company Through Good and Challenging Times | — | |
| Neha Narkhede | Oscilar | Keynote | Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention | — |
| Suhail Patel | OpenAI | Keynote | From Mainframes to Microservices - the Journey of Building and Running Software | — |
| Will Larson | Carta | Keynote | Use Engineering Strategy to Reduce Friction and Improve Developer Experience | — |
| Aayush Mudgal | Speaker | Unpacking how Ads Ranking Works @Pinterest | — | |
| Adam Jacob | System Initiative | Speaker | What if Infrastructure as Code Never Existed? | — |
| Adam Schirmacher | Gusto | Panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills | — |
| Adam Schirmacher | Gusto | Speaker | Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges | — |
| Ado Kukic | Sourcegraph | Speaker | Coding With Cody: How AI Is Revolutionizing Software Development | — |
| Adora Nwodo | Pulumi | Speaker | Pulumi Adventures: How Python Empowered My Infrastructure Beyond YAML | — |
| Alan Shreve | Ngrok | Speaker | How Databricks Solved Their Hybrid Cloud Connectivity Challenges | — |
| Alex Cruikshank | West Monroe | Speaker | Generative AI and Organizational Resilience | — |
| Alex Dubrouski | Speaker | The Journey to a Million Ops / Sec / Node in Venice | — | |
| Alex Ly | Solo.io | Speaker | Service Mesh for Less | — |
| Alex Strachan | Rippling | Speaker | Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency | — |
| Aljaž Mur Eržen | EdgeDB | Speaker | PRQL: A Simple, Powerful, Pipelined SQL Replacement | — |
| Ben Hartshorne | Honeycomb | Speaker | How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap | — |
| Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran | Onehouse | Speaker | Incremental Data Processing with Apache Hudi | — |
| Bill Tarr | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Rethinking SaaS Entitlement Management with Feature Flags | — |
| Brian Rinaldi | LaunchDarkly | Speaker | Rethinking SaaS Entitlement Management with Feature Flags | — |
| Caleb Hyde | Expel | Speaker | Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer | — |
| Caleb Hyde | Expel | Panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills | — |
| Chris Biscardi | rustadventure.dev | Speaker | JavaScript: Empowered by Rust | — |
| Chris Price | Momento | Speaker | Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture | — |
| Conor Barber | Airbyte | Speaker | CI/CD Beyond YAML | — |
| Daniel Ceasar Paul Jalathyan | Zoho | Speaker | Building a DevOps Culture with Site24x7: Collaboration and Accountability | — |
| David Flanagan | Rawkode Academy | Speaker | Kubernetes without YAML | — |
| David Grizzanti | The New York Times | Speaker | Building Organizational Resilience Through Documentation and InnerSource Practices | — |
| David Stenglein | Missing Mass, LLC | Speaker | Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples | — |
| Dylan Etkin | Sleuth | Speaker | Delegate Engineering Toil to the Robots | — |
| Erik Peterson | CloudZero | Speaker | Million Dollar Lines of Code: An Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization | — |
| Erin Doyle | Quotient | Speaker | An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents | — |
| Erin Doyle | Quotient | Panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills | — |
| Farhad Ghayour | McKinsey & Company | Speaker | Exciting Web Ahead with WebGL/WebGPU—Let’s Build a 3D App w/ Three.js | — |
| Gaojie Liu | Speaker | The Journey to a Million Ops / Sec / Node in Venice | — | |
| George Mao | — | Speaker | Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at CapitalOne | — |
| Hazel Weakly | Nivenly Foundation | Speaker | Understanding Platforms: What They Are, Why They Work, When to Use Them, How to Build Them | — |
| Heather VanCura | Oracle | Speaker | The Keys to Developer Productivity: Collaborate and Innovate | — |
| Hunter Laine | OneSignal | Speaker | Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla | — |
| Jeremy Saenz | Synadia | Speaker | Rethinking Connectivity at the Edge: Scaling Fleets of Low-Powered Devices Using NATS.io | — |
| João Batista Neto | StackSpot | Speaker | Beyond the Hype: The Impact of GenAI on Software Engineering Teams Productivity | — |
| Jon Moore | Stripe | Speaker | Designing Fault-Tolerant Software with Control System Transparency | — |
| Joran Greef | TigerBeetle | Speaker | Redesigning OLTP for a New Order of Magnitude | — |
| Joseph Lynch | Netflix | Speaker | How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems | — |
| Joshua Hight | Stytch | Speaker | Can’t Apps and Databases All Just Get Along? | — |
| Joy Ebertz | Imprint | Panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills | — |
| Joy Ebertz | Imprint | Speaker | Things Every Staff+ Engineer Should Know | — |
| Jules Damji | Anyscale | Speaker | Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI/ML/LLM Workloads | — |
| Julia Kreger | Red Hat | Speaker | Automating Bare Metal to Improve Your Quality of Life | — |
| Justin Kwan | Apple | Speaker | Relational Data at the Edge | — |
| Kate Sills | — | Speaker | Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries | — |
| Li Shen | PingCAP | Speaker | TiDB: Inside the Journey to Build a Cloud-Native, Distributed SQL Database | — |
| Lily Mara | Discord | Speaker | Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla | — |
| Logan Grasby | Cloudflare | Speaker | Designing AI Agents with System Thinking | — |
| Louis Ryan | Solo.io | Speaker | Service Mesh for Less | — |
| Malte Ubl | Vercel | Speaker | Framework Defined Infrastructure (FdI) – an Evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) | — |
| Manuela Leoni | StackSpot | Speaker | How the Largest Latin American Bank Reduced Software Delivery Lead Time on a Team with 16,000 Engineers | — |
| Mark Quinsland | Neo4j | Speaker | LLMs + Knowledge Graphs = Better Together | — |
| Matt Macchia | Event Store | Speaker | Streaming Events? You Should be Storing Them | — |
| Michelle Brush | Speaker | Disaster Recovery Across a Million Pieces | — | |
| Mike Danilov | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | AWS Lambda Under the Hood | — |
| Miško Hevery | Builder.io | Speaker | Hydration and Lazy-Loading Are Incompatible | — |
| Monica Beckwith | Microsoft | Speaker | Harnessing Exotic Hardware: Charting the Future of JVM Performance | — |
| Nikhil Simha | Airbnb | Speaker | Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform | — |
| Nischal HP | Scoutbee GmbH | Speaker | Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models | — |
| Nora Jones | Jeli.io | Speaker | How Do We Talk to Each Other? How Surfacing Communication Patterns in Organizations Can Help You Understand and Improve Your Resilience | — |
| Oren Eini | RavenDB | Speaker | Optimizing a Query - An Optimization Tale | — |
| Paul Bakker | Netflix | Speaker | How Netflix Really Uses Java | — |
| Piyush Verma | Last9 | Speaker | Simple Platform Engineering and Simply High Cardinality Observability | — |
| Rishi Markenday | McKinsey & Company | Speaker | Building Organizational Resilience by Creating Generative Organizations | — |
| Ryan Dahl | Deno | Speaker | Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno | — |
| Ryan Goodfellow | Oxide Computer Company | Speaker | Building a Rack-Scale Computer with P4 at the Core: Challenges, Solutions, and Practices in Engineering Systems on Programmable Network Processors | — |
| Sai Pragna Etikyala | Twilio Segment | Speaker | Orchestrating Resilience: Building Modern Asynchronous Systems | — |
| Saketh Chintapalli | Uber | Speaker | Incremental Data Processing with Apache Hudi | — |
| Sam Partee | Redis | Speaker | Generative Search: Practical Advice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) | — |
| Sarah Aslanifar | Equal Experts | Speaker | Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation | — |
| Scott Meyer | Speaker | LIquid: A Large-Scale Relational Graph Database | — | |
| Sergey Bykov | Temporal | Speaker | Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal | — |
| Shreya Rajpal | Guardrails AI | Speaker | Building Guardrails for Enterprise AI Applications W/ LLMs | — |
| Shweta Saraf | Netflix | Speaker | Multiplying Engineering Productivity in Face of Constant Change | — |
| Smruti Patel | Apollo Graph | Speaker | Building a Successful Platform: Acceleration, Autonomy & Accountability | — |
| Surabhi Diwan | Netflix | Speaker | Managing 238M Memberships at Netflix | — |
| Tal Garfinkel | UC San Diego | Speaker | Fast, Scalable, Secure: WebAssembly and the Future of Isolation | — |
| Taylor Khan | Temporal | Speaker | A More Useful Programming Model | — |
| Thomas Chao | Snowflake | Speaker | Server Driven UI - Streamlining Mobile Development and Release | — |
| Thomas Stadelmann | deepset | Speaker | Build and Deploy Retrieval Augmented Generative Pipelines with Haystack | — |
| Tobi Ajila | IBM | Speaker | Optimizing JVM for the Cloud: Strategies for Success | — |
| Tuana Celik | deepset | Speaker | Build and Deploy Retrieval Augmented Generative Pipelines with Haystack | — |
| Vanessa Huerta Granda | Enova | Speaker | The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals | — |
| Vedran Cindrić | Treblle | Speaker | The 10 REST Commandments | — |
| Vignesh Ravichandran | Cloudflare | Speaker | Relational Data at the Edge | — |
| Vipul Raheja | Grammarly | Speaker | Building Robust and Scalable Intelligent Writing Assistants: Challenges and Opportunities Leveraging GenAI | — |
| Wes Wagner | Redpanda | Speaker | Introduction to Real-Time Training and Scoring in AI/ML | — |
| Yao Yue | IOP Systems | Speaker | Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale | — |
| Yingjun Wu | RisingWave Labs | Speaker | Streaming Databases: Embracing the Convergence of Stream Processing and Databases | — |
| Yves Lorphelin | Event Store | Speaker | Streaming Events? You Should be Storing Them | — |
| Zack Butcher | Tetrate | Speaker | NIST 800-207A: Implementing Zero Trust Architecture | — |