At QCon London 2026, Peter Morgan introduced Tansu, an open-source, Apache Kafka-compatible messaging broker he has been building solo for the past two years. The pitch was simple and deliberately provocative: what if you kept Kafka’s protocol, however, threw out everything else, the replication, the leader elections, the permanent broker state, and replaced it with … Read more
Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva, both Engineers at Netflix, presented Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale at QCon London 2026, where they discussed the design and implementation of an end-to-end knowledge graph that models the Netflix user experience as interactions of a connected graph of users, clients, services and infrastructure. End-to-End … Read more
At QCon London 2026, Suhail Patel, a principal engineer at Monzo who leads the bank’s platform group, described how the bank has built a developer platform capable of shipping hundreds of changes to production every day. Monzo operates on a microservices architecture of over 3,000 services, all written in a uniform style using a bootstrap … Read more
Jabez Eliezer Manuel, Senior Principal Engineer at Booking.com, presented Behind Booking.com’s AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story at QCon London 2026, where he discussed how Booking.com has evolved over the past 20 years and the challenges they faced on their journey to incorporate AI. Paying tribute to the 20th edition of QCon London, Manuel kicked off … Read more