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QCon San Francisco 2024 Day 3: Arch Evolution, Next GenUIs, Staff+, Hardware Architectures
- Day Three of QCon San Francisco conference at San Francisco, California was held on November 20th, 2024. A debate on whether prompt engineering is a programming language or a utility was the main attraction of the show. Senior Engineering Manager at Zoox and Author of "MLOps with Ray," Hien Luu presented his keynote presentation on the topic. Other highlights of the show included accessibility with augmented reality and Slack Migration to a Cellular Architecture.
- The main focus of the keynote presentation was to debate whether prompt engineering is a new programming language. Luu provided attributes, examples and ChatGPT demos both for and against each of these topics. After providing closing arguments, Luu again polled the audience.
- Senior Software Engineer at Google, Ohan Oda's presentation focused on accessibility with augmented reality. Oda introduced Google Lens, a "camera based experience in Google Maps that helps on-the-go users understand their surroundings and make decisions confidently by showing information in first-person perspective," available in Google Maps.
- Oda discussed the challenges in improving Google Lens including reversing the old adage, "a picture may be worth 1000 words." However, he maintained "the user doesn't have time to listen to 1000 words."
- Cooper Bethea, Former Senior Staff Engineer and Technical Lead at Slack presented Slack Migration to a Cellular Architecture. Bethea introduced Coordination Headwind, a concept in which organizations start to feel that accomplishing simple things seem to be much slower over time.
- Bethea then introduced Project Cadence that features: writing proposals and circulate; engage deeply with high-value services; and expand to all critical services.
- The current state of the cellular design includes: siloed services are drainable in approximately 60 seconds; Vitess automation can reparent at the speed of replication; remaining critical services have roadmaps; there is a "happy path" to silo for new services; drains can happen for incident response, rollout and even drills.
- QCon San Francisco is organized by C4Media, a software media company focused on unbiased content and information in the enterprise development community. It consisted of three days of presentations and two days of workshops.
- The event was focused on enterprise development community and creators of InfoQ and QCon. The event organized various seminars that provided valuable insights on topics like accessibility with augmented reality and cellular architectures.
- This conference was organized to provide unbiased content and information in the enterprise development community.
- The conference had multiple sessions over five days, consisting of three days of presentations and two days of workshops.
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