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Unconference: Designing Modern Reliable Architectures
What is an unconference?
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions. A professional facilitator is also there to help keep the discussion moving forward, but where it goes is up to the participants.
It's a facilitated peer group that avoids the hierarchical aspects of a conventional conference, such as a top-down organization. Only the broad themes are predetermined. Everything else is just space for attendees to sound off ideas together, relate to shared challenges and rewards, and identify new ideas and goals.
Our unconference sessions have been based on the Open Space Technology and Lean Coffee format since 2006.
Why are we doing unconference sessions?
We have designed QCon for senior software practitioners. That role comes with demanding challenges and complex problems.
Connecting with your peers in a structured environment allows you to:
- Broaden your perspective with the benefit of the experience of others.
- Challenge how you've been doing things by breaking out of your bubble.
- Learn from peers who have already overcome the challenges you're facing now.
- Benchmark your solutions against other teams and organizations.
- Get real-world perspectives on challenges that might be too novel or specific to find solutions in books or presentations.
- Validate your technical roadmap with real-world research.
- Connect with others like you and build relationships that go beyond the event.
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Architecture
Reliable Architectures Through Observability
Wednesday Jun 14 / 02:55PM EDT
We want our systems to be reliable, but testing alone isn't enough. In a complex, multi-service system, it's impossible to test your way to correctness. That's why we need observability. Observability is the ability to see what our code is doing, in production and in development.
Kent Quirk
Staff Engineer @Honeycomb.io
Reliable Architectures Through Observability
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Kafka
How to Build a Reliable Kafka Data Processing Pipeline, Focusing on Contention, Uptime and Latency
Wednesday Jun 14 / 10:35AM EDT
Shifting workloads from synchronous to asynchronous can simplify the operational cost of high-throughput HTTP services. But understanding the evolution of performance metrics in the world of complex, high-concurrency, asynchronous distributed systems can be quite challenging.
Lily Mara
Engineering Manager @OneSignal
How to Build a Reliable Kafka Data Processing Pipeline, Focusing on Contention, Uptime and Latency
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Architecture
Building an Architecture to Predict Customer Behavior in a Revenue-Critical System
Wednesday Jun 14 / 01:40PM EDT
At Neon digital bank in Brazil, we strive to make revenue-impacting predictions based on customer behavior. Building a low latency and high availability distributed system that meets this requirement becomes especially challenging.
Yves Junqueira
Distinguished Software Engineer @Neon
Building an Architecture to Predict Customer Behavior in a Revenue-Critical System
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Developer Environment
Architecting a Production Development Environment for Reliability
Wednesday Jun 14 / 04:10PM EDT
At Meta, developers use a combination of development servers, including virtual machines and physical hosts, as well as on-demand containers to perform their daily software engineering work.
Henrique Andrade
Production Engineer @Meta
Architecting a Production Development Environment for Reliability
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Cloud Architecture
Survival Strategies for the Noisy Neighbor Apocalypse
Wednesday Jun 14 / 05:25PM EDT
Noisy neighbor issues are a common challenge for multi-tenant platforms, leading to resource contention, performance degradation, and costly downtime for other tenants sharing the same resources.
Meenakshi Jindal
Staff Software Engineer @Netflix
Survival Strategies for the Noisy Neighbor Apocalypse