SF : Developer Week 2026

I attended DeveloperWeek 2026 at the San Jose convention center from February 18 to 20. Across three days, the conference combined multiple technical tracks with an expo and hackathon. I focused on AI engineering and DevOps sessions, along with language and platform discussions relevant to the systems I build.

Talks on enterprise AI architecture and agent memory gave me useful context for separating a model's capabilities from the infrastructure around it. The conference programme also connected those subjects to deployment and developer tooling, making it possible to compare approaches beyond a single framework or provider.

Between sessions, I spoke with founders and platform teams in the expo halls. Agents, evaluations, and the developer experience repeatedly came up in those conversations. Hearing the same operational concerns from different teams helped connect the conference material to the decisions involved in building and maintaining production systems.