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Papers We Love - QCon NYC Edition | Gwen Shapira on Realtime Data Processing at Facebook (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm3IqXbf35g

#QCon #Facebook #Analytics

“Just add more instructions to the prompt.” Sound familiar?

When an LLM acts up, prompt tuning can feel like the obvious fix. But context engineering isn’t about telling the model more - it’s about controlling what it actually sees.

👀 Sneak peek: Ricardo Ferreira, Principal Developer Advocate at Redis, shares hard-learned lessons from the frontlines of AI engineering.

🗓️ Interested to learn more? Mark your calendar for September 02, 2026 as this video will be live on InfoQ!

#AI #ContextEngineering #LLM #AgenticAI #InfoQ #QCon

Carmen Andoh - Communicating Sequential Processes [PWL NYC] (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av3dYv0UM_s

#csp #concurrency #qcon

The recording (and transcript, for the sensible people who don't want to listen to me speaking) of my March QCon talk is online!

If you want to understand how CHERI works and the relationship between memory safety and compartmentalisation, and why starting from a programmer model is essential if you want to build useful hardware, here you go!

#CHERI #CHERIoT #QCon #Compartmentalisation #MemorySafety

Papers We Love - QCon NYC Edition w/ Evelina, Eric, Ines, & Caitie (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3tw2MYYT0Q

#alphago #qconnyc #qcon

As InfoQ celebrates 20 years, we’re highlighting the people who shape this community.

In this video, Sara Bergman (Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft) shares what makes the QCon & InfoQ community so impactful.

Thank you, Sara! 🙌

🎂 Happy 20th Anniversary, InfoQ!

#InfoQ20 #QCon #DevCommunity

"As InfoQ celebrates 20 years, we're recognizing the people who make this community what it is!

Dan Gomez Blanco, Principal Observability Architect at New Relic & OpenTelemetry Maintainer, shared why community matters more than ever:

Technology moves fast, but practitioner-driven spaces help engineers learn from real experiences, exchange practical knowledge, and stay connected to what works in the real world.

Thank you, Dan! 🙌

🎂 Happy 20th Anniversary, InfoQ!

#InfoQ20 #QCon #DevCommunity

There are three types of question in the Q-Con pub quiz: 1. Very specific questions that I am absolutely sure of the answer to, like: which games company was investigated by the FBI in the 1990s? 2. Questions that I am infuriated that I don't know the answer to, like: what is the name of the nightclub in Terminator? 3. Questions I have no clue about whatsoever.

#TTRPG #QCon #Belfast #games #convention #con

Matt Adereth - The Mode Tree: A Tool for Visualization of Nonparamtric Density Features [PWL NYC] (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILi9DHtXC1M

#statistics #dataviz #qcon

Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Comics, Cosplay, and Pride at Q Con this June #qcon #lgbt

https://graphicpolicy.com/2026/05/12/celebrate-lgbtqia-comics-cosplay-and-pride-at-q-con-this-june/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

@darjr Also dice.camp!

Conventions I will attend this year include @ukgamesexpo #QCon and #Longcon

@Tim_Eagon @bedirthan

My talk from #QCon San Francisco 2025 is now public with video and transcript. Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit. My #AI native approach to using #Claude to experiment and benchmark different approaches, and the structural and organizational changes that are happening. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/coding-agents/

Having to commute daily attending #qcon really makes me appreciate working from home while still being a 15 minute walk from the office if needed. I can’t believe I used to do this everyday for years. Has it got worse or has it always been this bad?

Anyone else at QCon? I'll be in the security-track unconference thing after lunch and then my talk is the last one today, in Windsor (5th floor).

#QCon

Back at #qcon in London!
Let's talk software!

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#SoftwareArchitecture #Certification #AI #QCon

Last year, I gave a number of talks on the subject of pen plotters / drawing machines, and how they have been used in different ways to realise different forms of art.

I wasn’t immediately able to share the main talk (the closing keynote from QCon London 2024), but I posted about the shorter edition that I delivered at Electromagnetic Field, and I’ve also written about the distinction between computer art generated using algorithms, and generative AI creations.

It took some time for the video to become available to share, but you can now take a look at the closing keynote that began it all, on the InfoQ website: Where is the Art? a History in Technology. I really enjoyed researching the subject.

This year, I plan to tinker with building more of my own plotters, in different formats.

Next up, we have our fifth (!) Wimbledon Art Fair – next month, May 8-11. We’re still working with the plotter and pouring paints, and have upgraded from the AxiDraw A4 SE to a larger NextDraw 1117 for some of our more recent work. If you’re in the neighbourhood, do come and take a look!

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/04/17/pen-plotters-and-the-history-of-computer-art/

#100DaysToOffload #art #creativity #forgeAndCraft #history #info1 #infoq #penPlotter #plotterArt #qcon #Technology #wimbledonArtFair #wimbledonArtStudios

Apologies to anyone at #qcon that was going to catch my talk. Unfortunately I've been 🤮 and there's no way I could travel :(

I was looking forward to this so very sad not to make it at the last minute :(

It's #qcon London!!
We're here with a booth and talks on #ZeroTrust and #apacheflink.
Also meeting old friends Nf colleagues!

A relaxed 15km trail run with 500m EG very close to where I live. Even though I've run here many times, every season has its own special magic 🌞 There's no doubt that spring has finally arrived here in the mountains as well!

Tomorrow till Friday I'm off to #London for #QConLondon, which I'm really looking forward to. Let's see how much running I get to do here 😎

#Garmin #BeatYesterday #QCon #TrailRunning #Running @running #RunnersOfMastodon #Tirol #Laufen

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Although @ukgamesexpo doesn't officially open until Friday morning, tonight there is open #gaming in #NEC Hall 3. If you are there and you see me, say hello!

Today's #Tshirt is from #Belfast 's #games #convention #QCon XXIV. This is my favourite of the Q-Con t-shirts, featuring the Q-Bot towering above Belfast's famous landmarks.

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When working with #LLM or #ML in general, it's especially important to be able to enrich your static models with external, live data.

#AndreasKollegger from #Neo4j gave us an excellent talk here at #QCon on how to efficiently use a graph-based approach like Neo4j in relation to RAG.

https://github.com/neo4j-examples/sec-edgar-notebooks

#QConLondon #GraphRAG #AI #ArtificialIntelligence