#qconlondon — Public Fediverse posts

💡 Hype isn't a bug in tech - it's a feature!

Hype isn’t just noise. It’s the mechanism that drives funding, talent, and attention to new ideas before they’re fully mature.

The real skill isn’t avoiding hype altogether - it’s knowing when the hype is hiding a real architectural trade-off.

🔗 Watch Holly Cummins’s full presentation on InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tech-hype-cycles-architectural-tradeoffs/

#SoftwareArchitecture #TechHype #EngineeringLeadership #InfoQ #QConLondon #SoftwareEngineering

Think an EU cloud region protects your data from US jurisdiction?

Physical server location ≠ data sovereignty.

Martin Kleppmann explains why US law still applies to European data hosted by US cloud providers - and why jurisdiction follows the company, not the server.

🔗 Watch the full video + transcript 👉 https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloud-computing-technological-sovereignty-multi-cloud/

#CloudArchitecture #DataSovereignty #DevOps #QConLondon #InfoQ

Giving developers credit cards for public cloud. What could go wrong?

At Tesco, moving fast in the cloud led to uncontrolled costs, unclear value, and a costly repatriation project.

Jayesh Bhayani breaks down what went wrong - and the lessons learned.

🗓️ Save the date: The full presentation drops November 20 on InfoQ!

#CloudComputing #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #InfoQ #QConLondon

Public vs. Private Cloud: The Enterprise Cost Reality 📉

At Tesco, 80% of workloads run on private cloud, while 80% of the budget goes to the 20% in public cloud.

Why? An equivalent setup in public cloud can cost 8 to 10x more.

Jayesh Bhayani (Sr Director Technology at Tesco PLC) breaks down the engineering trade-offs behind this hybrid strategy.

🗓️ Save the date: The full presentation drops November 20 on InfoQ!

#CloudComputing #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #InfoQ #QConLondon #SoftwareArchitecture

---- "Using Async/Await for Computational Scheduling", Orson Peters, #QConLondon Most people use AA for I/O and networking, and that's what LLMs suggest you use it for. This talk is about using it for CPU-intensive work. Async is effectively user-level cooperative multitasking.

Welcome to day three of #QConLondon! Doing last minute touchups for my talk at 10:30, so probably not going to see the keynote. Will livepost again once I'm back to watching talks

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Hello from #QConLondon! I am going to liveskeet as much as I can while very, very jetlagged. Right now we are going through conference intro and "how to attend a conference". Gotta be a couple of thousand people here

Hello #QConLondon! Day one is on its way and I am so excited to be here!

Catch my women in tech lunch, or find me floating around and say hi :)

@qcon I’m planning to be at #QConLondon in 2026…

Send your team to #QConLondon 2026 (Mar 16-19) and gain a strategic edge. Shared context across architects, leads, and engineers = faster adoption of emerging tech. Group discounts available for teams of 10+: https://bit.ly/49lUdiH

Building a conference track? A new guide by Erica Pisani on #InfoQ shares lessons from hosting a track at #QConLondon.

💡 Pro tip: Start outreach months early & be upfront about speaker benefits (travel, etc.). It’s a game-changer.

Read the playbook: https://bit.ly/4fhApht

How does #PairProgramming power successful #ContinuousDelivery?

In this #InfoQ video, Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom & Ola Hast share how their team ditched:
❌ Excessive WIP
❌ Lengthy pull requests
❌ Multiple test environments

The result?
✅ Ultra-fast deployments
✅ Superior code quality
✅ A highly cohesive, efficient engineering team

🎥 Watch now: https://bit.ly/4eu88np

#transcript included

#Culture #SoftwareEngineering #Agile #TechLeadership #Teamwork #QConLondon

Curious about building a database without a server? 🤔

At #QConLondon 2025, Alex Seaton (Man Group) shared how they transitioned from a high-maintenance MongoDB server farm to Serverless Object Storage in a hedge fund trading app.

🔗 Don’t miss his insights! Read the summary of his talk on #InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3ZkHF59

#Java #Serverless #Database

Insights from Teena Idnani at #qconlondon 2025 on navigating the complexities of building resilient & consistent applications across multiple cloud providers!

#CaseStudy: FinBank's journey on embarking on its multi-cloud journey.

🔗 Read the full insights on #InfoQ: https://bit.ly/4cvxqjM

#CloudComputing #HybridCloud #EventDrivenArchitecture #SoftwareArchitecture

Insights on building effective #SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions!

At #QConLondon, Jon Topper shared key lessons: avoid common pitfalls, embrace multi-tenancy early, automate tenant provisioning, and plan for disaster recovery.

🔗 Dive deeper into these insights: https://bit.ly/42ILRh9

#InfoQ

Working with #DistributedSystems? Don’t miss these 3 essentials:
➡️ Timeouts
➡️ Retries
➡️ Idempotency

At #QConLondon, Sam Newman talked about why getting these right is crucial when working with distributed systems.

Catch his insights: https://bit.ly/42qfgvb

#InfoQ #SoftwareArchitecture #Microservices

This morning’s #QConLondon keynote is John O’Hara; he’s supposed to be talking about AMQP but he’s actually telling us why standards are vital to our industry and I think my heart might burst. So delighted to see this content on this stage (also a great speaker)

A nice hands on approach to #SoftwareSecurity, in the best GTD manner. Celine Pypaert from Johnson Matthey giving an interesting talk here in #QConLondon about how teams can get started with securing their development processes.

#Security is difficult, complex, impossible to enforce and it requires awareness and participation of a lot of stakeholders in an organization or a team. So just start small and scale up as you go!

“These are hard times for anyone who cares about culture” truths from @clesleycode at #QConLondon this morning