I’m attending QCon New York which is run by InfoQ.com. At the end, I’ll update this post to be a table of contents of my blog posts from the conference.
My live blog posts
Wednesday
- Keynote – Abstraction/Federation by Mary Poppendieck
- Dodge disaster and march to triumph as a mentor by Jesse Jiryu Davis
- Engineer retention by Erran Berger
- Working Remotely Successfully by Brad Greenlee
- Java 8 Stream Performance by Maurice Naftalin
- 4 Java mini-talks
Thursday
- Keynote – How did we end up here? by Todd Montgomery and Trisha Gee
- Akka Streams by Viktor Klang
- Too Big To Fail by Nori Heikinen
- Becoming Reacting without Overacting by Palvo Baron
- Real Threats and Defenses by Alex Holden
- New in ES2016 – JavaScripts First Yearly Release by Brian Terlson
- Bitcoin and Blockchain by Oleg Carlson
- Java 8 in Anger by Trisha Gee
- Pattern language for Microservices by Chris Richardson
Friday
- Immutable Infrastructure with Docker and Containers by Jerome Petazzoni
- Google Architectural History by Micach Lemonik
- Results Driven Development by Aaron Glazer
- Developing Cultural Intelligence by Daniel Seltzer
- Here be Dragons; Container Security by Josh Bregman
That’s 9742 words live blogged not counting this post (which gets it to 10K) and an average blog post size of 487. The “Too Big To Fail” session was an outlier at 827; must have liked it a lot.
My overall impressions
The conference in general seem set up well with 25 minutes between talks along with an open space by area at the end of the day (not presentations; discussions). For lunch they have tables designed for discussion – large normal confernece tables, 4 people discussion tables and “loner” tables. I also like the intro about usbility including the big names on the badge.
The intro also had each track lead give an overview of th talks in their track. This felt like overkill as this was online and most people think about what they want to attend before showing up.
Logistically, I really like that you gave feedback by putting a green, yellow or red paper as you walk out the door of the session. Low overhead; low time commitment and asked while you still remember the details.