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A First-Timer’s Guide to Curating a Technical Conference Track One first-time track host shares the process, constraints, and takeaways from building a track from scratch at QCon London 2025.

Building a conference track? A new guide by Erica Pisani on #InfoQ shares lessons from hosting a track at #QConLondon.

💡 Pro tip: Start outreach months early & be upfront about speaker benefits (travel, etc.). It’s a game-changer.

Read the playbook: bit.ly/4feFxCH

Happy 40th! 🥳🎉🍻

#59 Debriefing Qcon Sustainability track with Erica Pisani How is sustainability covered in main tech conferences? Sure cybersecurity, DevOps, or anything related to SRE, is covered at length. Not to mention AI… But what room is left for the environmental i...

Joined Gaël Duez on the GreenIO podcast to chat about the track I hosted at @qconferences.com London this year, the tight relationship between performance and sustainability in software, and so much more! 🎙️

Episode is on all major platforms, and also here! ⬇️

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Reflections on "Performance and Sustainability" at QCon London 2025 I had the privilege of hosting the "Performance and Sustainability" track at QCon London this year. It was my first time hosting a track, and I was incredibly fortunate to have the following talented ...

Reflections on the "Performance and Sustainability" track that I hosted at @qconferences.com London this year:

www.ericapisani.dev/reflections-...

The efficiency paradox talk at QCon London

For those at @qconferences.com London 2025, come check out the last talk of the day in the Performance and Sustainability track up in Mountbatten - Holly Cummins' "The Efficiency Paradox"!

Sarah Hsu about to talk about observability and green software at QCon London 2025

Sarah Hsu introducing us to Green Observability at @qconferences.com London 2025 as part of the Performance and Sustainability track 🤩

Alex Good talking about local-first software at QCon London

Alex Good talking about how we can build build more local-first software - removing the high level of dependency that often exists in software today on centralized servers that are often outside of our control at @qconferences.com London 2025

Jade Abbott speaking at QCon London

"Sustainability means different things to different people"

Jade Abbott speaking about AI and sustainability at @qconferences.com London 2025 in the "Performance and Sustainability" track

Ludi Akue speaking about webpage optimization in the context of Green IT at QCon London 2025

"The frontend is the most overlooked area in Green IT"

One of the many valuable lessons shared by Ludi Akue in her talk as part of the "Performance and Sustainability" track at @qconferences.com #QConLondon2025

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Issue 3 is out now! Visit our Etsy Store to get it, as well as issues 1 and 2!

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Various software engineering themed stickers on a counter.

Thanks @dev.to for the wonderful stickers! ❤️

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QCon London 2025 | Performance and Sustainability in Practice: How to Make Software Greener Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.

I'm excited to announce I'll be hosting the "Performance and Sustainability: How to make Software Greener" track at #QConLondon, April 7–11, 2025!

You can check out all the amazing speakers that will be a part of it here:

qconlondon.com/track/apr202...

Hope to see you there!

YouTube video by GOTO Conferences Living on the Edge • Erica Pisani • GOTO 2024

Edge computing is more accessible than ever. Learn what it is, why it’s growing, and how to use it in your apps. Watch @ericapisani.dev's talk to explore the future of #EdgeComputing.
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Any Gen Z podcast fans here?

I'm doing a research project on younger podcast fans, and I'm trying to get 100 responses to this survey:

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(Feel free to pass it along to folks you know! 🙏)

A zine celebrating the vibrant souls of the tech industry

We're close to releasing issue #3, and if you're interested in following along on our journey, you can sign up for the zine's mailing list at the418.dev

We're also always looking for contributors for future articles, so if you're interested, feel free to reach out!

A zine celebrating the vibrant souls of the tech industry

For those new to @the418.bsky.social - it's a zine @burgerdev.bsky.social and I work on together with a theme of "what would folks who work in tech talk about over tea?"

Contains:
- thought-provoking articles from various authors ✍️;
- puzzles 🧩 ; and
- positive vibes 😎

@the418.bsky.social is officially migrated over to BSky! 🎉

The Copenhagen Catalog 150 principles for a new direction in tech - The principles were created by hundred and fifty humans in 48 hours at Techfestival in Copenhagen as the next step after The Copenhagen Letter.

TIL about "The Copenhagen Catalog" and I kind of want a poster of these.

Anyone know where I can find one (or even the ebook for it)?

Sadly, it looks like the original site no longer runs, but I found what it used to look like on the internet archive - web.archive.org/web/20180914...

Assorted reads (January 2025) Hi folks, I hope you've all been doing well! 👋 I've been starting my new year on a bit of a podcast-listening binge, revisiting old shows that I've stepped away from for a bit as well as trying some ...

Assorted reads for January 📚

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Thank you! 🙏

Curious to know what you end up replacing it with because I'm on the lookout for alternatives too 👀

Privacy-preserving payment systems, goals for 2025, and a new side project Happy New Year all! I hope you had a great holiday break and a wonderful start to the year. I enjoyed some much needed rest and got a chance to read a lot of books I've been meaning to get to. One o...

First newsletter of 2025! ✍️

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I need this as a laptop sticker

For those who need something light hearted in their feed right now:

Here's a clip of my dog Ada walking down stairs entirely on her front paws because she hates the feeling of her winter boots on her back paws

1/5 ➡️ How Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems by Erica Pisani & Rafal Gancarz
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Thanks for reaching out, I'm happy to hear you found the post helpful 😄

Thanks writing these, I look forward to reading them when they land in my inbox!

For alternatives to Buttondown that you asked about in the recent issue: I use Kit (formerly ConvertKit) for the mailing list of a zine I run and haven't had any issues.

Support was also great when I reached out.

I believe in you! 💪