QCon Software Development Conferences

QCon London designs the time between talks as carefully as the talks: long breaks, quiet spaces, a prayer and family room, diverse main-stage voices. People ask the questions they'd normally hold back. April 13-16. Current pricing ends August 11. bit.ly/3Tj1HNa

Resharding under load is harder than it looks, and most write-ups skip the edge cases that matter. Jacob Murphy, Open Source Maintainer @Valkey, on Valkey's atomic slot migration at #QConSF 2026: MOVED/ASK, fork-based snapshotting, rollback staging. 🔗 bit.ly/4aw0FU8

Product ships scripts. Ops generates code with AI. When it breaks, whose pager goes off? The Code Beyond Engineers track at #QConSF 2026, on what changes when coding moves past engineers. Suhail Patel, Principal Engineer @Monzo, hosts. 🔗 bit.ly/3SMAORE

AI security and privacy decisions in regulated industries are being made without stable frameworks. InfoQ AI Security & Privacy cohort with Katharine Jarmul: 5 weeks, small group from different companies, confidential, your real decisions. 🔗 bit.ly/3Tj18Ty

You're already making AI engineering calls nobody's made before. The InfoQ Certified AI Engineering Program adds peers from other companies working through the same RAG, agent, platform, and eval decisions. Next cohort: July 25. bit.ly/4eP1W9S

Same failure, new incident, and most reviews never break the pattern. The Resilience Engineering track at #QConSF 2026 covers how teams design systems that expect failure. Hosted by Vanessa Huerta Granda. 🔗 bit.ly/3SNpDIs

Your AI feature passes its tests. In production it does things your evals never caught. The Guardrails & Safety Nets (Evals) track at #QConSF 2026 covers how teams build evaluation and safety for AI. Hosted by Tanya Reilly, Principal Engineer @Datadog. 🔗 bit.ly/4eXtp9o

Your team's technology bets are easier to validate when you've talked to engineers who adopted them a year earlier. That calibration is one of the things teams consistently describe taking back from #QConLondon. Current pricing ends July 14. bit.ly/44cajaW

The practitioners giving the talks at #QConSF 2026 already shipped what you're planning, and they'll tell you what broke. 12 tracks, 60+ senior practitioners. No hidden product pitches. Nov 16-18, Hyatt Regency. Current pricing ends July 14. 🔗 bit.ly/4gr9UZz

Architecture calls get harder to test as you get more senior. The InfoQ Architecture cohort: 5 weeks with Luca Mezzalira, a small group of senior engineers, applying QCon frameworks to decisions you're actually working on. Next cohort: Aug 13. bit.ly/3Rl0Qem

Most production AI calls get made inside one team with no outside reference point. The InfoQ AI Engineering Program is 5 weeks with senior engineers from other companies on RAG, agents, and evals. Hien Luu (MLOps with Ray) leads. Starts July 25. bit.ly/44QrLSl

Getting AI into production is hard. The InfoQ Certified AI Engineering Program: 4 hrs/week, 5 weeks, senior peers working through the same production problems. Next cohort starts July 25. bit.ly/4gVrPaP

Send a team to QCon London and the most useful thing they bring back is shared vocabulary for the problems you're already facing, grounded in what other teams have actually shipped and what broke. Current pricing ends July 14. bit.ly/4b991Bb

New dates are open for the InfoQ Certified Architect Program: Aug 13, Sep 14, Oct 16. Five weeks, 4 hours a week, online with Luca Mezzalira. Senior engineers & architects from different industries working through real architecture decisions together. bit.ly/4p0QNrg

You know what those systems do. You've never seen the decisions that shaped them. Architectures You've Always Wondered About at #QConSF 2026, hosted by Daniela Miao. Nov 16-18. 🔗 bit.ly/44bWs4o

Most teams are working through production RAG, agent reliability, and inference costs without anyone who's made the same call before. The InfoQ Certified AI Engineering Program is that peer group. July 25, PDT. bit.ly/3SID3FD

Latency and cost don't surface until production load hits. By then, the architectural calls that caused them are expensive to reverse. The InfoQ AI Engineering Program gives you a senior peer group to pressure-test decisions before they get locked in. 🔗 bit.ly/3Sxmb4L

5 weeks on AI in production: W1: where AI fits in your SDLC W2: RAG pipelines that stay grounded W3: agent design, single tools to multi-agent W4: inference gateways and GPU cost controls W5: evals, trust, rollout readiness Saturdays from July 25. bit.ly/4gniFnr

The InfoQ Certified Architect Program: a 5-week online cohort for senior engineers and architects, four hours a week. Participants say it makes their existing workload more productive. Starts August 13. #ICSAET bit.ly/3SAW6lg

Building an AI agent that works in a demo is easy. One that handles failures and you can evaluate is harder. The InfoQ Certified AI Engineering Program cohort covers that. Facilitated by Hien Luu. First cohort starts July 25. bit.ly/4v9lf43