Early in your career? The QCon AI Boston volunteer program offers free access to sessions and recordings in exchange for onsite support. June 1-2, Boston.

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Moving an AI agent from prototype to production introduces state management and framework lock-in problems most tooling wasn’t built for.

Deepak Chandramouli and Bhumik Thakkar @Apple share how they solved it with Ray. QCon AI Boston, June 1-2. Early bird ends today.

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Registration for the April architecture online cohort closes Monday, April 13. Join Luca Mezzalira and a small group of senior peers to pressure-test your technical strategy.

Starts April 15. Secure your spot: bit.ly/4tFcazC

Getting offline metrics to translate to online impact is where most recommendation systems run into trouble.

Mallika Rao @Netflix shares how they built and scaled an AI-native system end-to-end. QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.

Early bird ends April 14.

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Early in your career? The QCon San Francisco 2026 volunteer program gives you free access to sessions and recordings in exchange for onsite support.

Conference: Nov 16-18, San Francisco.

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AI infrastructure decisions are being shaped by constraints most teams can’t see from the inside.

Jordan Nanos @SemiAnalysis breaks down the hardware and economics at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2, Boston. Early bird ends April 14.

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Justifying architectural trade-offs to stakeholders requires more than technical intuition.

The InfoQ Certified Architect cohort covers the Architecture Canvas, ADRs, and RFC frameworks.

Starts April 15. Find out more: bit.ly/4vh0lkz

AI doesn't just speed up delivery; it exposes technical debt. DORA data from 5,000 professionals shows AI surfaces dysfunction faster than teams can pay it down. Get practitioner-led strategies at QCon AI Boston and QCon San Francisco.

Early bird ends April 14: bit.ly/4dG7Ew9

Most certifications end with a quiz.

This one ends with a capstone assessment applied to a real architectural challenge.

5 weeks, live sessions, led by Luca Mezzalira.

Starts April 15. Find out more at: bit.ly/4tByZEs

Higher AI adoption, no corresponding improvement in delivery. A lot of teams are stuck in that gap.

Lizzie Matusov @Quotient shares a research-driven maturity model at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.

Early bird ends April 14: bit.ly/4c43QCg

A lot of field-tested architectural knowledge never leaves the company where it was built.

In this 5-week cohort, you'll write a peer-reviewed article for InfoQ.com documenting your production trade-offs. Starts April 15.

Find out more:
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Key Lessons from Shipping AI Products beyond the Hype In this talk, Phil Calçado shares his experiences building a failed AI startup, providing a rare post-mortem view into what worked and what didn't. He explains why traditional software engineering pri...

One of the most practical talks from InfoQ Dev Summit Boston last year: Phil Calçado on the gap between AI experimentation and production. Worth watching before QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.

Early bird ends April 14.

Watch: bit.ly/4v56dxz

From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome Nicole Forsgren discusses the "AI Productivity Paradox", explaining why generating code faster often makes deployment bottlenecks more expensive. She shares the DevEx framework to help architects and ...

AI makes code faster to write. It also makes every downstream bottleneck more expensive. Watch the Nicole Forsgren keynote on the real constraint from QCon San Francisco 2025.

Worth watching before QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18. Early bird ends April 14. bit.ly/4v1zLMh

Low AI tool adoption is a behavior change problem. Jatin Aneja @Zoox on what actually makes AI stick. QCon AI Boston, June 1-2, Boston.

Early bird ends April 14: bit.ly/4tlPWT4

InfoQ Certified Architect Program for Senior Architects A 5-week cohort for senior architects. Apply frameworks from QCon innovators, justify decisions, and earn your InfoQ certification.

At some point in a senior technical career, the feedback loops disappear. You become the person making the calls.

The InfoQ Certified Architect cohort is built around that.

Starts April 15: bit.ly/4tifGj7

Humans in the Loop: Engineering Leadership in a Chaotic Industry Michelle Brush discusses engineering leadership in the age of AI/ML and automation. She explains how the Jevons Paradox will create massive software demand, but the Ironies of Automation will make the...

As AI takes on more engineering work, what does the job actually become?

Michelle Brush, Engineering Director, SRE @Google, addressed it head-on at QCon San Francisco 2025.

Worth watching before QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18.

Early bird ends April 14.

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Trust and safety at marketplace scale means low tolerance for errors in both directions.

Bruna Pereira @DoorDash on building AI moderation that holds up in production. QCon AI Boston, June 1-2, Boston.

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LLM ranking at LinkedIn scale means strict latency budgets and hundreds of candidates per query. Sundara Ramachandran shares how they built it at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2. Early bird ends April 14.

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Evaluation for agentic AI is harder than it looks, and rebuilding it per product doesn't scale. Susan Chang (Elastic) shares two years of production learnings at QCon AI Boston, June 1-2.

Early bird ends April 14.

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Architecture, platform engineering, AI agents — the InfoQ Certified Architect program covers how they connect.

5 weeks online. April, May, June cohorts open.

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Agent extensions can add tools, but they can't deeply shape behavior. And most are tied to a single vendor. If you've been hitting those limits, Niko Matsakis (Rust lang design team, Amazon) is building something different.

QCon AI Boston, June 1-2. Early bird ends April 14.

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QCon AI Boston (June 1-2) has a volunteer program for students and early-career professionals. Free conference access in exchange for onsite support.

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QCon London 2026: Your Multi-Cloud Strategy Is a Product Problem — Treat It Like One JP Morgan Chase engineers Luis Albinati and Surabhi Mahajan argued that multi-cloud complexity can't be solved with engineering alone. Speaking at QCon London, they showed how treating multi-cloud as ...

JP Morgan Chase at QCon London: companies end up multi-cloud by accident, acquisitions, shadow IT, GPU chasing, then firefight their way out. Fix: treat it as a product. www.infoq.com/news/2026/03... #multicloud #platformengineering #opentelemetry #fintech #qconlondon

#QConLondon Keynote: How do you keep learning when the tools keep changing, and the stakes feel high? 🧠

Laura Savino, Software Engineer @Adobe, dives into learning out loud under pressure, with practical reframes to lower the fear of failure & shift from “knower” to “learner.”

#EngineeringCulture

☕ Day 3 at QCon London 2026!

Today’s themes: architecture in the age of AI, team/org shifts, resilience, performance optimization, and frontend/mobile trends.

#QConLondon #SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareEngineering

Keynote at #QConLondon: How do you make provider switching real when geopolitics shifts? 🌍

Martin Kleppmann, Associate Professor @University of Cambridge (Author “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”), explores two approaches aimed at reducing dependency risk: qconlondon.com/keynote/mar2...

☕ Day 2 at QCon London 2026!

Today’s tracks cover modern data engineering, AI engineering, debugging distributed systems, security, and how teams are adapting to AI-driven change.

#QConLondon #SoftwareEngineering #PlatformEngineering

@martin.kleppmann.com talking to @qconferences.com London about @bsky.app and #ATproto .

Learning about @bsky.app and #atprotocol from @martin.kleppmann.com in #London attending @qconferences.com

Day two of ;#QConLondon! Starting liveskeet a bit late so not covering the beginning of @martin.kleppmann.com's keynote about geopolitical tech resilience (because USA is shitshow rn). Three topics:

- Multicloud
- Atproto
- Localfirst

For multicloud, key thing is making it easy to switch