QCon San Francisco 2025: 11 Featured Sessions
QCon San Francisco 2025 — Expert Picks & Highlights
As QCon San Francisco (Nov 17–21, 2025) approaches, the program committee and track hosts are spotlighting their top session recommendations from this year’s lineup.
These picks span AI‑accelerated development, platform engineering, resilience patterns, and career growth—all with QCon’s hallmark focus on practical, real‑world case studies.
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Architecture & Migration
Thomas Betts — QCon San Francisco 2026 Program Committee member and Lead Editor for Architecture & Design at InfoQ — stresses the importance of storytelling in technical presentations:
> “Something that sets QCon apart is the focus on presentations that tell a great story, with valuable lessons learned along the way.”
Recommended Sessions:
- "Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity" — Randy Shoup
- Deep insights into the evolution of velocity at a major e‑commerce platform.
- "Migrating from Monolith to Modern SaaS: Untangling 40 Years of Legacy" — Indu Alagarsamy
- A masterclass in tackling decades of technical debt.
- Lorin Hochstein notes: "A challenging migration project is like a slow-moving incident—this looks like a great story."
- "Monolith Down: Cleaning Up After the Great Identity Migration Disaster" — Sonya Natanzon
- Hard lessons from recovering after a major migration failure.
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The Future of Development with AI
Kaye Mason, Software Engineer at Meta, warns:
> “We’re not going to lose our jobs to AI any time soon, but we might lose out to someone who knows how to use AI well… adapt or be left behind.”
Must‑See Picks:
- "Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project" — Adam Wolff
- How to structure projects so AI can truly be effective in your codebase.
- "Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development" (Track)
- Mason predicts future interviews may focus on "how well you can get AI to solve problems."
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Leadership & Career Growth
Mason recommends all talks in the Senior Engineering Leadership track:
> “Each offers a unique perspective on career growth. Every speaker brings years of insight into building both skills and career.”
Track link: "The Path To Senior Engineering Leadership"
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Resilience, Performance & Observability
Lorin Hochstein values sessions sharing senior engineers’ hard‑earned wisdom.
Top Recommendations:
- "Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure" — Matthew Liste
- "Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms" — Ian Nowland
- Hochstein: "Excited to hear about a success story at the infrastructure layer."
- "Beyond Line Charts: Why Some Diversity in Telemetry Visualization Is Long Overdue" — Yao Yue
- Observability meets Human‑Computer Interaction.
- "From Monolith to Mosaic: Strategies for a Safe and Successful Polyglot Migration" — Adrian Cockroft
- Hochstein: "Adrian is simply one of my favorite technical speakers."
- "How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud" — Frank Yu
- Understanding SLA uptime at 99.9999% and ultra‑low latency.
- "When Incidents Refuse to End" — Vanessa Huerta Granda
- Real‑world incident stories with key takeaways.
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Keynote Spotlight
Thomas Betts’ Pick:
- "Open Source, Community, and Consequence: The Story of MongoDB" — Ashkat Vig & Andrew Davidson
Other Keynotes:
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Event Details
Dates: November 17–21, 2025
Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Focus: Practical insights from practitioners tackling complex, large‑scale technology problems.
Resources:
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