Artificial Intelligence

Presenters Marie Alice Blet Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 Building AI Agents: It’s Harder (and More Exciting) Than You Think 🚀💡 Let’s be honest: the hype around AI is real. But building practical, reliable AI agent systems? That’s a whole different ballgame. This post dives into the lessons learned from a year-long prototype, revealing the challenges, trade-offs, and surprising realities of building AI agents that actually solve problems. Spoiler alert: everyone’s learning as they go – even the big players! ...

Presenters Maarten Vandeperre Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 Level Up Your Developer Experience with Backstage: A Deep Dive 🚀 Are your developers spending too much time hunting for information, struggling with inconsistent processes, or feeling frustrated by disconnected tools? You’re not alone. Many organizations face these challenges, and the solution might be simpler than you think: building a centralized developer portal. This blog post dives into how you can leverage Backstage, an open-source developer portal, to revolutionize your developer experience and unlock significant productivity gains. ...

Presenters Victor Rentea Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 🤯 Event-Driven Architectures: The Hard Truth & How to Build for Resilience 🚀 Event-driven architectures (EDAs) are all the rage! 🎉 Kafka, message queues, asynchronous communication – they promise scalability, flexibility, and loose coupling. But let’s be honest: building truly reliable EDAs is a serious challenge. This post distills the key lessons from a recent presentation, cutting through the hype to reveal the pitfalls and offering practical advice for building systems that can withstand the inevitable storms. ⛈️ ...

Presenters Loïc Magnette Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 🚀 Agent-to-Agent (A2A): Building the Future of AI Collaboration 🤖 The world of AI is rapidly evolving, and we’re moving beyond simple task execution towards a future of interconnected, collaborative AI agents. Enter Agent-to-Agent (A2A) – a fascinating new protocol poised to revolutionize how AI entities communicate and work together. This post dives into what A2A is, why it matters, and what the future might hold. ...

Presenters Jonathan Catrell Source Developer Tea podcast 🚀 Level Up Your Career: The Power of Deliberate Practice 👨‍💻 Are you feeling stuck in your tech career? Do you feel like you’re putting in the hours, but not seeing the real growth you desire? It’s time to ditch the idea that experience alone is enough and embrace a powerful technique: deliberate practice. In a recent Developer Tea presentation, Jonathan Catrell unpacked this concept, demonstrating how it can be a game-changer for engineers, tech leads, and managers alike. Let’s dive in! ...