InfoQ - QCon San Francisco 2025 - Presentations

Presentation: Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide

Meryem Arik — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:05:00 GMT

Meryem Arik discusses strategies for designing low-cost LLM inference architectures for high-volume, non-real-time workloads. She explains how software architects and engineering leaders can achieve order-of-magnitude cost reductions by making critical trade-offs across hardware, inference runtimes, speculative decoding, and smart queue reordering.

By Meryem Arik

Presentation: From ms to µs: OSS Valkey Architecture Patterns for Modern AI

Dumanshu Goyal — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:34:00 GMT

Dumanshu Goyal discusses optimizing data layers for low-latency workloads like AI feature stores. Drawing lessons from NASA's Space Shuttle, he explains how proxy architectures introduce hidden CPU costs, elevated tail latencies, and blast-radius risks. He demonstrates how direct-access Valkey architectures achieve microsecond latency, improve resilience, and slash infrastructure costs.

By Dumanshu Goyal

Presentation: Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns

Chris Richardson — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:45:00 GMT

Chris Richardson discusses leveraging Team Topologies and internal platforms to accelerate microservices delivery. He explains six key platform patterns - from security and observability to build and deployment - and shares strategies for minimizing cognitive load on stream-aligned teams while avoiding common platform engineering pitfalls.

By Chris Richardson