InfoQ is excited to announce QCon AI New York 2026 (December 15-16), a two-day conference focused on production-grade AI, including agent runtimes, context management, system evaluations (evals), tool access, security, inference costs, and MLOps.
Exhibitor and sponsored speaking slots are available. Email sales@newyork.qcon.ai for more details.
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AI Speeds Up Evaluation — But It Raises the Bar for Trust
AI has compressed vendor evaluation cycles, but it has also amplified developer skepticism. "AI-powered" is now table stakes, not differentiation. What builds trust hasn't changed: real architectural tradeoffs, production benchmarks, and honest failure cases outweigh polished messaging. The new reality for developer marketers — your content no longer just needs to impress, it needs to survive real-time interrogation by an AI assistant.
QCon San Francisco 2026 (November 16-18); Sponsorships Still Available
Entering its 19th year, QCon San Francisco is the perennial conference for senior software engineers, architects, and technical team leads to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.
Some of this year’s QCon San Francisco track themes include:
Architecting for Agents: Beneath the Loop, hosted by Julie Amundson, Senior AI Infrastructure Consultant, ex-Googler, ex-Netflixer
Modern API Design for Humans and Agents, hosted by Krys Flores, Staff Software Engineer at Crunchyroll, Host of O’Reilly’s The Staff Engineer’s Career Roadmap
Data Platforms Reimagined, hosted by Adi Polak, Author of “Scaling Machine Learning with Spark” and “High Performance Spark 2nd Edition”
Real World Platform Engineering, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Platform Engineer, Co-Author of “Mastering API Architecture”, Java Champion, and InfoQ News Manager
Distributed Systems in Production, hosted by Vidhya Arvind, Tech Lead & a Founding Architect for the Data Abstraction Platform @Netflix, Previously @Box and @Verizon
See the complete list of track abstracts.
Sponsorships are still available for QCon San Francisco 2026. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com
InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q2 2026
To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q2 2026, based on page views:
Anthropic Lead: HTML Increasingly Better Than Markdown at Keeping Humans Engaged in Agentic Loops
ArrowJS Reaches 1.0, Recast as the First UI Framework for the Agentic Era
AWS Launches Blocks, an Open-Source TypeScript Framework Designed for AI Agents to Build Backends
Anthropic Designs Three-Agent Harness Supports Long-Running Full-Stack AI Development
Google Open Sources Experimental Multi-Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion
Anthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code
Designing a Multi-Agent System for Engineering Support at Scale: a Case Study from Grab
AWS Announces General Availability of DevOps Agent for Automated Incident Investigation
Cloudflare Announces Agent Memory, a Managed Persistent Memory Service for AI Agents
Claude Code Used to Find Remotely Exploitable Linux Kernel Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years