At QCon London 2026, Matthew Skelton argued that AI success depends on organisational maturity. He highlighted bounded agency, security, and stewardship as key to managing AI agents. By using...

Hannah Foxwell began her QCon London 2026 talk by noting that the long-sought velocity in development has arrived, but the industry is unsure how to use it. She set aside the technical details of...

At QCon London 2026, Ivan Zarea, director of platform engineering at Netlify, discussed the impact of AI on web development, noting a surge in non-traditional developers among the 11 million users...

Anderson Parra, Staff Software Engineer at SeatGeek, presented “Shielding the Core: Architecting Resilience with Multi-Layer Defenses” at QCon London 2026. Parra discussed strategies on how to...

At QCon London 2026, Clara Higuera, responsible AI program lead at BBVA, presented how many of the risks associated with AI systems are fundamentally engineering challenges rather than purely...

At QCon London 2026, James Hall discussed running AI workloads directly in browsers, highlighting local processing benefits such as enhanced privacy, reduced latency and cost. He examined...

Unikraft CEO Felipe Huici demonstrated waking the one-millionth VM on a commodity server in ten milliseconds at QCon London. The talk traced a decade from academic unikernel research to a platform...

In her QCon London keynote, Birgitta Böckeler, AI-Coding lead at Thoughtworks, reflected on the changes in the AI coding space over the past year. She emphasised a shift from vibe coding to using...

Peter Morgan introduced Tansu at QCon London, an open-source, Kafka-compatible, stateless, leaderless broker that scales to zero, with pluggable storage (S3, SQLite, Postgres), broker-side schema...

Europe is completely dependent on US cloud services, Martin Kleppmann told QCon London. His fix: commoditise everything. He walked through three technologies he's helped build: multi-cloud via de...

Morgan Stanley engineers Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea showed how they're retooling the bank's API program for AI agents using MCP and FINOS CALM. Live demos covered compliance guardrails,...

Christine Lemmer-Webber, executive director at the Spritely Institute, and David Thompson, CTO at the Spritely Institute, presented “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet” at...

At QCon London 2026, Jeff Smith discussed the growing mismatch between AI coding models and real-world software development. While AI tools are enabling developers to generate code faster than...

At QCon London 2026, Colin Douch discussed building and operating self-hosted monitoring stacks, surveyed the current tooling landscape, and explained how to build a coherent observability setup...

At QCon London 2026, Spotify's Jo Kelly-Fenton and Aleksandar Mitic discussed Honk, an AI-powered coding agent that enables code migrations across Spotify's codebase. The system improves...

In a talk at QCon London 2026, Viktor Petersson argued that software teams are running out of time to adopt SBOMs (Software Bills of Materials) due to pending legislative changes in both the US...

At QCon London, TrueLayer engineer Ethan Brierley reframed Rust lifetimes using the Polonius borrow checker's mental model: lifetimes as sets of loans rather than regions of code. He built from...

At QCon London 2026, Lada Indra, Head of Data Platform at Pleo, shared insights from his experience across high-scale data systems. He illustrated both the risks of poorly aligned teams and the...

At QCon London 2026, Julian Wreford and Oli Lane from Gearset showcased how distributed tracing and SLOs solve asynchronous observability gaps. By shifting from queue-size metrics to latency-based...

Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva, both Engineers at Netflix, presented “Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale” at QCon London 2026, where...