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2025 Schedule
The schedule is subject to change.
Monday, June 9th, 2025
Badge Pick-Up and Breakfast
Break - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Systems Thinking for Scaling Responsible Multi-Agent Architectures
As enterprises increasingly adopt multi-agent systems (MAS) for complex AI solutions, engineers face the dual challenge of scaling these systems while maintaining ethical responsibility.
The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform
Micro-frontends can help organizations scale frontend development, but without the right foundations, they often lead to unnecessary complexity and performance issues. How can you implement them effectively while avoiding common pitfalls?
Break - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild
Details coming soon.
Engineering Reliability: Principles and Practices for Modern Infrastructure
Details coming soon.
Lunch - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Building an Internal Developer Portal that Empowers Developers
Internal Developer Portals are revolutionizing how teams streamline workflows, enhance developer experience, and boost productivity. But for medium-sized organizations with limited resources, the path to success is unclear and fraught with challenges.
AI-Assisted Software Delivery: Leveraging ChOP & LLMs to Create More Effective Learning Experiences at QCon
What happens when experienced software leaders pair with AI—not just to build code, but to shape the learning surface of a major international software conference?
Break - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Thinking Like a Detective: Solving Cloud Infrastructure Mysteries
When requests mysteriously fail in cloud environments, even experienced engineers can struggle to identify the culprit. With components spread across multiple layers and services, tracking down these elusive bugs requires both methodical investigation and specialized knowledge.
Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software
Efficient theming systems require an architecture that supports different users at various stages. Shopify has been pioneering that with Liquid themes for years, in this talk I'll explore the critical components that make it possible, and how to build them from authoring to rendering.
Break - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Powering Enterprise AI Applications with Data and Open Source Software
Managing and serving data efficiently is critical to deploy successful AI applications at scale. Feature stores have emerged as an essential tool for organizations, centralizing and streamlining the management of data for AI/ML, from raw data ingestion to real-time model inference.
Your Roadmap to a Fulfilling Career: The Pillars of Staff+ Growth
What does a truly fulfilling career in software engineering look like—and how do you build one beyond the Senior level?
‘Dev Dialogs’ - After Hours Unconference & Peer Discussions
Come and join us to end the day by socializing with other participants and discussing the topics that brought you here with your peers and our expert speakers.
Metcalf Small Ballroom
Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
Badge Pick-Up and Breakfast
Conference Introduction and Keynote:
Key Lessons from Shipping AI Products Beyond the Hype
Break - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Empathy Driven Platforms: You Build It, Let’s Run It Together
The DevOps movement empowered developers to overcome traditional operational bottlenecks by embracing a "you build it, you run it" approach.
Architecting Planet Scale, Modern Apps in the Cloud
Everything fails, all the time! Engineers should build architectures and applications with this concept in mind.
Break - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Are You Missing a Data Frame? The Power of Data Frames in Java
There is a missing tool in your Java data structure toolkit – Data Frames!
Scaling an Embedded Database for the Cloud – Challenges and Trade-Offs
Most databases designed for the cloud follow a client-server model, but what happens when you need to scale an in-process, embeddable database like DuckDB? This talk dives into the engineering challenges of building a cloud-native analytics platform from an embedded database.
Lunch - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Building Robust and Maintainable Systems Through Effective Architecture
Details coming soon.
From Grassroots to Enterprise: Vanguard's Journey in SRE Transformation
Inspired by the pioneering Google SRE book released in 2016, Vanguard's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices began as a grassroots initiative in 2018.
Break - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Break - Located in Ziskind Lounge
Running Fast and Lean: Performance Tuning Your Applications on Kubernetes
Details coming soon.
Auditorium