QCon San Francisco Software Development Conference

You approved the design doc six months ago. You're still dealing with the tradeoffs. Architecture decisions compound. 5 tracks on this at QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18. Explore the tracks here: bit.ly/4tDYGU8

Training days are available at QCon San Francisco 2026 (Nov 19–20), right after the conference. Hands-on workshops from senior practitioners. Smaller groups, focused topics, time to actually work through the material. Add to your pass: bit.ly/4uK6owW

QCon San Francisco is offering diversity scholarships for 2026 (Nov 16-18). Applications are open. Apply: bit.ly/4tWBB09

The QCon San Francisco hotel block at the Hyatt Regency is already 65% booked, six months out. Staying at the venue keeps you in the conversation between sessions. Nov 16-18. Early bird May 12. bit.ly/49qYY9G

QCon San Francisco 2026 tracks are out. 12 tracks, 60+ speakers. Architecting for agents, guardrails and safety nets (evals), staff+ engineering skills, DevEx as an architecture concern, and more. Nov 16-20. Current pricing ends May 12. 🔗 bit.ly/4tR1YED

Luca Mezzalira on what the in-person Certified Architect cohort at QCon San Francisco covers: ADRs, team topologies, trade-off mapping, and Architecture Decision Forums. QCon San Francisco, Nov 16-20. Early bird ends May 12. 🔗 bit.ly/3Qqipcf

Most consequential engineering decisions don’t happen in design docs. Shawna Martell @Imprint and Dan Fike @Carta on the invisible choices that quietly shape your systems and culture. QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18. Early bird ends April 14. bit.ly/41y8BPG

Most architectural bets don’t announce themselves as permanent at the time. Akshat Vig and Andrew Davidson (MongoDB) on the decisions that actually shaped the product from the start. Worth watching before QCon San Francisco 2026, Nov 16-18. Watch here: bit.ly/4c162fc

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. Apply: bit.ly/4cbPi3r

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. Early bird ends April 14. bit.ly/4v39rBD

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, Nov 16-18. Early bird ends April 14. 🔗 bit.ly/47v8Puu

One of the most viewed talks from QCon San Francisco: "Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?" (2018). Holds up differently now that Rust is in the Linux kernel. QCon San Francisco 2026 is November 16-20. Early bird ends April 14. 🔗 bit.ly/4sBcXl3

QCon San Francisco is programmed by practitioners, not organizers. The 2026 committee: engineers from Netflix, Zoox, Momento, Monzo, Quotient, and Blackbaud, selecting talks based on what they're seeing in production right now. 🔗 bit.ly/4rqdbtQ

At the Staff+ level, an architectural mistake is a 6-month migration. Join a curated cohort of senior peers at QCon San Francisco to stress-test your strategy and get the peer review your role usually lacks. Led by @lucamezzalira. Upgrade your ticket: bit.ly/4cltGn7

20 years of QCon = 20 years of technical truth. From Josh Evans’ Netflix talk to the next-gen architectures of 2026, QCon San Francisco is where the standards are set. Watch Josh Evans' original session: bit.ly/4aFrJkk Join us this November: bit.ly/4cOXl8n

Move past theory. QCon San Francisco training (Nov 19-20) offers hands-on workshops for senior engineers. Deep dives into: 🔹AI-enabled systems 🔹Evolutionary architecture 🔹Operating at scale Small classes, real code. 🔗 bit.ly/4aJFFIN

QCon San Francisco (Nov 16-20, 2026): three days of shared evidence from practitioners who've already navigated these decisions. The Monday after, your team's conversations change. Early bird pricing + group savings: bit.ly/4twpO8T

Most conference talks are polished success stories. QCon is the opposite: 20 years of focus on the unfiltered trade-offs of systems that actually survived production. QCon San Francisco returns Nov 16-20. Secure launch pricing by Feb 10th. 🔗 bit.ly/3ZB02mp

In an AI-driven world, we have more information but less time to validate what actually works. Conferences compress time, exposing you to hundreds of practitioners sharing real patterns, not just theories. That's why #QConSF 2025 matters more than ever. bit.ly/48dUtiA

Run AI affordably. Keep P95 sane. Ship safer. #QConSF: practitioners sharing production patterns for cost optimization, platform reliability, and security you can implement immediately. Nov 17-21 2025 | bit.ly/4oJeKTg