# QCon New York 2023 Recap

> Recap of QCon New York 2023 Conference

Source: https://last9.io/blog/qcon-new-york-2023-recap-a-look-at-the-most-interesting-talks/

[QCon conferences](https://www.infoq.com/qcon-new-york-2023/) are a series of international software development conferences organized by [InfoQ](https://www.infoq.com/), a community-driven online publication focused on software development and emerging technologies. The events bring together industry professionals, thought leaders, and experts to share knowledge, insights, and experiences in various aspects of software development, architecture, and engineering.

I did a Twitter space with [**Matthew Sanabria**](https://twitter.com/sudomateo) from Hashicorp on **Unpacking Insights from QCon New York 2023: Key Takeaways.**

[QCon New York 2023](https://www.infoq.com/qcon-new-york-2023/) was a great opportunity for software engineers to learn about the latest trends and best practices in the industry. The conference featured a number of interesting talks, covering a wide range of topics.

[Last9](https://last9.io) was a Silver sponsor at the event and we enjoyed discussing about Observability and how we help customers reducing their metrics TCO by 50% with [Last9](https://last9.io/metrics/) - our time series metrics warehouse.

Although, I could not attend most of the talks, as I was busy at [our booth](https://twitter.com/nishantmodak/status/1668994461362167810), I am looking forward to the videos once they are published. Here are some of the interesting talks around Reliability at Scale and Observability that I am looking forward to.

## Track: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

[Building Sub-Second Latency Video Infrastructure at Cloudflare](https://www.infoq.com/qcon-new-york-2023/) by [Renan Dincer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/renandincer/)

[Several Components are Rendering: Client Performance at Slack-Scale](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/slack-front-performance/) by [Jenna Zeigen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeigenvector/)

## Track: Designing Modern Reliable Architectures

[Reliable Architectures Through Observability](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/reliable-architectures-observability/) by [Kent Quirk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentquirk/)

[Architecting a Production Development Environment for Reliability](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/meta-production-environment/) by [Henrique Andrade](https://www.linkedin.com/in/henriqueandrade/)

[Survival Strategies for the Noisy Neighbor Apocalyps](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/noisy-neighbor/)e by [Meenakshi Jindal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshijindal/)

Article from [Bhupendra Mishra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhupendram/) on his reflections from [QCon New York 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/takeaways-from-qcon-new-york-bhupendra-mishra).

## Track: Modern Data Architecture & Engineering

[Building a Large Scale Real-Time Ad Events Processing System](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/streaming-pipeline-ad-platform/) by [Chao Chu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuchao333/)

## Track: Doing Platform Engineering Well

[Scaling Organizations with Platform Engineering](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/scale-platform-engineering/) by [Lesley Cordero](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero/)

[How DoorDash Ensures Velocity and Reliability through Policy Automation](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/policy-automation-velocity-reliability/) by [Lin Du](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lin-du-lance-3b901a29/)

[Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/platform-engineering-teams/) by [Charity Majors](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charity-majors/)

## [High Cardinality War Stories](https://last9.io/guides/high-cardinality/)

[Piyush, CTO at Last9](https://last9.io/about-us/) gave a talk on [High Cardinality](https://last9.io/guides/high-cardinality/) War Stories. He delved into the anatomy of a metric and issues that High Cardinality can help resolve, from combating Noisy Neighbours to battling in the Streaming Wars and dealing with the pulse of High Cardinality. Here is the slide deck of Piyush's talk.

There were tons of other talks on various topics ranging from Staff+ engineering to LLM to ML in Practice. The full program can be found [here](https://www.infoq.com/qcon-new-york-2023/). Looking forward to the videos from QCon New York 2023!