Jeremy Edberg discusses how Netflix designs their systems and deployment processes to help the service survive both catastrophic events like zone and regional outages and less catastrophic events like network latency and random instance death.
Conference: Jun 13-15, 2016
Tutorials: Jun 16-17, 2016
Conference: Jun 13-15, 2016
Tutorials: Jun 16-17, 2016
Software is changing the world
QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community.
A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Tracks
Wednesday Jun 10
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Applied Data Science and Machine Learning
Putting your data to use. The latest production methods for deriving novel insights
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Engineer Your Culture
Building and scaling a compelling engineering culture
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Modern Advances in Java Technology
Tips, techniques and technologies at the cutting edge of modern Java
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Monoliths to Microservices
How to evolve beyond a monolithic system -- successful migration and implementation stories
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The Art of Software Design
Software Arch as a craft, scenario based examples and general guidance
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Sponsored Solutions Track I
Thursday Jun 11
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Emerging Technologies in Front-end Development
The state of the art in client-side web development
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Fraud Detection and Hack Prevention
Businesses are built around trust in systems and data. Securing systems and fighting fraud throughout the data in them.
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Reactive Architecture Tactics
The how of the Reactive movement: Release It! techniques, Rx, Failure Concepts, Throughput, Availability
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Architecting for Failure
War stories and lessons learned from building highly robust and resilient systems
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High Performance Streaming Data
Scalable architectures and high-performance frameworks for immediate data over persistent connections
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Sponsored Solutions Track II
Friday Jun 12
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
Learn from the architectures powering some of the most popular applications and sites
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Continuously Deploying Containers in Production
Production ready patterns for growing containerization in your environment
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Mobile and IoT at Scale
Users, Usage and Microservices
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Modern Computer Science in the Real World
How modern CS tackles problems in the real world
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Optimizing Yourself
Maximizing your impact as an engineer, as a leader, and as a person
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Sponsored Solutions Track III
Featuring over 100 Speakers
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Keynotes
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Key Driver of the Lean Software Development Movement
Tutorials
NY Venue
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
The hotel is situated just across the river from Manhattan in New York City's most celebrated neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights. The conference venue is at the same location as the hotel.
Reservations
The QCon room block at the Marriott Brooklyn Bridge (conference hotel) is closed. Please contact the Marriott Brooklyn Bridge directly at this link or 718-746-7000 to inquire about room availability. Alternate hotels in walking distance (9 minutes) are Hampton Inn, Sheraton, Aloft, Indigo and NuHotel. There are no negotiated QCon group rates at these hotels.
Open Space
Every day at QCon New York, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
Why are we doing Open Space?
We’re doing Open Space at QCon because we want this conference to be yours. At QCon, we learn from the best and share with the best.
We come with passions and ideas that we want to share with each other. We want to connect with each other, create community around topics that we’re passionate about.
Social Events
Come attend to mingle and network with other speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.
Things you’ll be enjoying at QCon New York
- Breakfast to kickstart your QCon day
- High quality lunch and snacks with option for vegetarians and gluten free
- Breaks between sessions to network with your peers
- Receptions with drinks and snacks to recap the day
Past Years
How Netflix Architects for Survival
by Jeremy Edberg
Speaker Bio:
Jeremy Edberg is currently the Reliability Architect for Netflix, the largest video streaming service in the world. Before that he ran Reddit, an online community for sharing and discussing interesting things on the internet that does more than four billion page views a month. Both run their entire operations on Amazon's EC2.
The Present and Future of the Web Platform
by Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich surveys interesting developments in the Web platform, analysing emergent trends, and making some predictions.
Speaker Bio:
Brendan Eich is CTO and SVP of Engineering for Mozilla, and widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet’s most widely used programming language.
From Code to Monkeys: Continuous Delivery at Netflix
by Dianne Marsh
Dianne Marsh presents the open source tools used by Netflix to keep the continuous delivery wheels spinning.
Speaker Bio:
Dianne Marsh is a Director of Engineering for Netflix in Los Gatos, CA, where she leads a team responsible for tools and systems used by nearly all engineers in the company for continuous integration, delivery and deployment to the AWS cloud.
Deconstructing Functional Programming
by Gilad Bracha
Gilad Bracha explains how to distinguish FP hype from reality and to apply key ideas of FP in non-FP languages, separating the good parts of FP from its unnecessary cultural baggage.
Speaker Bio:
Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a software engineer at Google where he works on Dart. Previously, he was a VP at SAP Labs, a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence, and a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun.
Core.async - Communicating Sequential Processes using Channels, in Clojure
by Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey presents the motivation, design and use of the Clojure core.async library, the reasons for choosing the CSP approach and how it helps to structure applications.
Speaker Bio:
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software designer with over 25 years of experience in various domains.
Top 10 - Performance Folklore
by Martin Thompson
Martin Thompson discusses Java, concurrency, operating systems, and functional programming in the context of designing and testing high-performance systems.
Speaker Bio:
Martin Thompson is a high-performance and low-latency specialist, with experience gained over two decades working on large scale transactional and big-data systems.
Acknowledging CAP at the Root - in the Domain Model
by Eric Evans
Eric Evans discusses three DDD patterns helping embedding CAP tradeoffs inside the domain model: Aggregates, Domain Events and Bounded Contexts.
Speaker Bio:
Eric Evans is a specialist in domain modeling and design in large business systems. Since the early 1990s, he has worked on many projects developing large business systems with objects and has shared his experience in the book "Domain-Driven Design," Addison-Wesley 2003.
Exploiting Loopholes in CAP
by Michael Nygard
Michael Nygard explores some of the available loopholes in the CAP theorem helping architects to engineer distributed systems that meet their needs.
Speaker Bio:
Michael has written and co-authored several books, including "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" and the best seller "Release It!", a book about building software that survives the real world.
Things I Wish I'd Known
by Rod Johnson
Rod Johnson shares some of the lessons he learned as an entrepreneur.
Speaker Bio:
Rod Johnson is SVP, Middleware and GM of the SpringSource division at VMware. Spring was based on the code published with Rod's best-selling "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development"(2002).
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