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202021 Edition
QCon SF 2021
Rebuilding Together: Platforms, People & Practice
A hybrid return to San Francisco. Engineers reconnected in person while a global virtual audience tuned in for deep dives on platform engineering, ML systems, and the changing role of the senior IC.
Nov 15-19·Hyatt Regency SF·68 talks·2,600+ attendees
Program
Mon · Nov 15
8:00 AM
BreakRegistration & Breakfast
9:00 AMKeynote
The Platform Engineering Manifesto
Charity Majors
CTO, Honeycomb
10:15 AM
BreakMorning Coffee & Expo Hall Opens
10:45 AM
TalkBuilding an Internal Developer Platform from Scratch
Kelsey Hightower · Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud
10:45 AM
TalkFeature Flags as a Platform Primitive
Vanessa Huerta · Director of Engineering, LaunchDarkly
11:45 AM
TalkML Pipelines: From Jupyter to Production
David Patterson · Distinguished Engineer, Stripe
11:45 AM
TalkThe Hybrid Office: Engineering Culture in Two Worlds
Nate Morrison · Principal Engineer, Slack
12:45 PM
BreakLunch Break & Birds-of-a-Feather Tables
1:45 PM
TalkKubernetes at 5,000 Services: Lessons Learned
Kelsey Hightower · Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud
1:45 PM
TalkFeature Stores: The Missing Piece of ML Infrastructure
David Patterson · Distinguished Engineer, Stripe
2:45 PM
TalkDeveloper Experience as a Product
Vanessa Huerta · Director of Engineering, LaunchDarkly
2:45 PM
TalkModel Monitoring: Catching Drift Before Your Users Do
Liz Fong-Jones · Principal Engineer, Honeycomb
3:45 PM
BreakAfternoon Coffee & Sponsor Expo
4:15 PM
TalkService Mesh in Practice: Not Just for Fortune 500
Nate Morrison · Principal Engineer, Slack
5:15 PM
SocialWelcome Reception & Sponsor Showcase
In-person and virtual networking with drink tickets and demo stations.
Tue · Nov 16
9:00 AM
TalkInfrastructure as Code, Platforms as Products
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
9:00 AM
TalkThe First 90 Days of Your Platform Team
Vanessa Huerta · Director of Engineering, LaunchDarkly
10:00 AM
TalkReal-Time Feature Engineering at Scale
David Patterson · Distinguished Engineer, Stripe
10:00 AM
TalkBuilding a Culture of Experimentation
Nate Morrison · Principal Engineer, Slack
11:00 AM
BreakMorning Coffee & Networking
11:30 AM
TalkProduction Model Serving: Lessons from Two Years of Failures
Kelsey Hightower · Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud
11:30 AM
TalkGitOps for Platform Teams: A Field Guide
Liz Fong-Jones · Principal Engineer, Honeycomb
12:30 PM
BreakLunch Break & Unconference Sessions
1:30 PM
TalkMulti-Tenant Kubernetes: Isolation Patterns That Work
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
2:30 PM
BreakAfternoon Coffee & Hallway Track
3:00 PM
TalkML Observability: Monitoring What Your Model Actually Does
David Patterson · Distinguished Engineer, Stripe
3:00 PM
TalkDesigning Internal APIs That People Actually Use
Vanessa Huerta · Director of Engineering, LaunchDarkly
4:00 PM
WorkshopPlatform Team Topologies: A Hands-On Mapping Session
Nate Morrison · Principal Engineer, Slack
Wed · Nov 17
9:00 AM
TrainingObservability-Driven Development
Liz Fong-Jones · Principal Engineer, Honeycomb
Full-day workshop on instrumenting code, building dashboards, and using observability to drive development decisions.
12:00 PM
BreakLunch Break
1:00 PM
TrainingKubernetes Operator Patterns
Kelsey Hightower · Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud
Half-day hands-on workshop building Kubernetes operators for platform automation.
9:00 AM
TrainingMLOps From Scratch
David Patterson · Distinguished Engineer, Stripe
Half-day workshop: build a complete MLOps pipeline including feature stores, model registry, and monitoring.
12:00 PM
BreakLunch Break
1:00 PM
PanelClosing Panel: The Platform Engineering Movement — Where Do We Go From Here?
Charity Majors, Kelsey Hightower, Vanessa Huerta · QCon SF 2021 Track Hosts
2:30 PM
BreakConference Close & Farewell