In mid November around 1,600 attendees descended on the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco for the twelfth annual QCon in the city. QCon SF attendees - software engineers, architects, and project managers from a wide range of industries including some prominent Bay-area companies - attended 99 technical sessions across 6 concurrent tracks, 13 ask me anything sessions with speakers, 18 in-depth workshops, and 8 facilitated open spaces. We’ve already started publishing sessions from the conference, along with transcripts for the first time. The full publishing schedule for presentations can be found on the QCon SF website. The conference opened with a presentation from Jez Humble & Nicole Forsgren, two of the authors of “Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations” – one of InfoQ’s recommended books for 2018. Some members of InfoQ's team of practitioner-editors were present and filed a number of stories about the event, but the main focus for this article is the key takeaways and highlights as blogged and tweeted by attendees. QCon San Francisco Key Takeaways This article presents a summary of QCon San Francisco as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Building thae Enchanted Land Finding Purpose Through the Things We Build If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, It Doesn’t Matter How Fast You Get There Using Data Effectively: Beyond Art and Science Tracks & Talks Go - A Key Language in Enterprise Application Development? Kotlin: Write Once, Run (Actually) Everywhere WebAssembly: Neither Web Nor Assembly, But Revolutionary Fairness, Transparency, and Privacy in AI @LinkedIn Airbnb's Great Migration: From Monolith to Service-Oriented Netflix Play API - An Evolutionary Architecture Paying Technical Debt at Scale - Migrations @Stripe Real-World Architecture Panel 1 Scaling Slack - The Good, the Unexpected, and the Road Ahead What We Got Wrong: Lessons From the Birth of Microservices Evolving Continuous Integration: Applying CI to CI Strategy Helping Developers to Help Each Other Building a Reliable Cloud Based Bank in Java npm and the Future of JavaScript Crisis to Calm: Story of Data Validation @ Netflix From Winning the Microservice War to Keeping the Peace Reactive DDD—When Concurrent Waxes Fluent Artwork Personalization @Netflix Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? The Operating System in 2018 Incrementally Refactoring Your Habits With Psychology DevOps For The Database Service Ownership @Slack Full Cycle Developers @Netflix Whispers in the Chaos: Monitoring Weak Signals Building Production-Ready Applications Building Resilience in Production Migrations Yes, I Test In Production (And So Do You) Design Strategies for Building Safer Platforms FreshEBT. Managing Values-Driven Open Source Projects Software Love Languages (On Passion & Product) Observability: The Health of Every Request InfoQ produces QCons in 6 cities around the globe. Our focus on practitioner-driven content is reflected in the fact that the program committee that selects the talks and speakers is itself comprised of technical practitioners from the software development community. Our next QCon will be in London March 4-8, 2019 . We will return to San Francisco April 15-17 2019 with QCon.ai, our event focussed on machine learning and AI for developers. QCon San Francisco 2018 Publishing Schedule Check out full videos on InfoQ.com Videos of most presentations were available to attendees within 24 hours of them being filmed, and we have already begun to publish them on the InfoQ site. You can view the publishing schedule on the QCon San Francisco website. There are also numerous QCon photos on our Facebook page. Week of December 31 Serverless and Chatbots: A Match Made in the Cloud Gillian Armstrong Crisis to Calm: Story of Data Validation @ Netflix Lavanya Kanchanapalli DevOps For The Database Baron Schwartz Service Ownership @Slack Holly Allen Whispers in the Chaos: Monitoring Weak Signals J. Paul Reed Week of January 7 DevOps & Lean Thinking Panel Jessica Kerr, Matt Stratton, Bridget Kromhout, J. Paul Reed, Greg Burrell & Holly Allen Day Two Kubernetes: Tools for Operability Bridget Kromhout How to Make Linux Microservice-Aware With Cilium and eBPF Thomas Graf Caching Beyond RAM: The Case for NVMe Alan Kasindorf The Operating System in 2018 Justin Cormack |