Production agents fail underneath the loop: durable state, daily deploys, sandboxes, model portability, observability.
The Architecting for Agents track at #QConSF 2026 works through each layer with practitioners shipping agents in production today: https://bit.ly/43bRnIJ
#Netflix tackled a major system design challenge: durable & correct data deletion at massive scale.
Their centralized platform spans heterogeneous data stores, balancing durability, availability & correctness.
โ 76.8B rows deleted across 1,300 datasets, zero data loss
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๐ก Rethinking workflow orchestration: using #PostgreSQL not just as a data store, but as the orchestration layer itself.
At #QConSF 2025, Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li tackled workflow failures, complex recovery, and visibility challenges in distributed systems.
Read the summary here on #InfoQ โจ https://bit.ly/3LY4EPI
The real consequential decisions in engineering aren't made in sprint planning. They're hidden in the 'invisible choices': metrics, defaults & everyday behaviors.
The industry is focused on the wrong things. The choices that truly shape systems & culture are the ones that go unnoticed and unexamined.
Read the full insights: https://bit.ly/43Ajl1y
Iโm spending the next few days at QCon Software Development Conferences San Francisco and I will post reactions and comments as threads on this post. My own talk is at 5pm today. Starting off with an opening keynote by Nicole Forsgren who I just said hi to and found out recently moved back from Microsoft to Google. The event is well attended and has many first time attendees going by the audience at the keynote. Itโs their 19th year and itโs very well run at at an iconic location. The Hyatt where Mel Brooks filmed High Anxiety.
Run AI affordably. Keep P95 sane. Ship safer.
#QConSF: practitioners sharing production patterns for cost optimization, platform reliability, and security you can implement immediately.
Nov 17-21 2025 | https://bit.ly/49haGok
AI generates code 10x faster but creates 3x more review costs. You haven't gained efficiency, you've moved the bottleneck.
Jyothi Nookula's #QConSF 2025 (Nov 17-21) session: the frameworks to move from perpetual pilots to measurable impact.
๐ Explore the session: https://bit.ly/3JwpftP
The real bottleneck in 2025 isn't technology, it's validating it fast enough.
#QConSF 2025 (Nov 17-21): practitioners sharing patterns from production before the rest of the industry catches up.
What if implementation speed is no longer the bottleneck?
Adam Wolff built Claude Code entirely with agentic AI from day one. His #QConSF 2025 session reveals what engineering looks like when the constraint shifts from execution to judgment.
๐ Explore Adam's session: https://bit.ly/3LzklfZ
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