Yes, We Put AI Agents for Healthcare in Production No, Don't Try This at Home by Marie Alice Blet

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! ...

October 8, 2025 · 3 min

Top 10 Event Driven Architecture Pitfalls by Victor Rentea

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. ⛈️ ...

October 8, 2025 · 4 min

A2A in 30 Minutes: Building Interoperable AI Agents by Loïc Magnette

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. ...

October 7, 2025 · 4 min

Securing Your CICD Pipelines: Best Practices and Strategies By Adrien Pessu

Presenters Adrien Pessu Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 🔒 Level Up Your CI/CD: Protecting Your Pipelines from Security Risks 🚀 The speed and efficiency of modern software development hinges on robust CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines. But with great power comes great responsibility! A fast pipeline is only as strong as its security. This presentation highlighted some critical risks lurking within CI/CD pipelines and, more importantly, gave us practical strategies to mitigate them. Let’s dive in! ...

October 6, 2025 · 4 min

Large Scale Distributed LLM Inference with LLM D and Kubernetes by Abdel Sghiouar

Presenters Abdel Sghiouar Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 Scaling LLMs: A Kubernetes Deep Dive 🚀💡👨‍💻 Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in production is no longer a simple matter of scaling web applications. It demands a fundamentally new approach, and Kubernetes is emerging as the central orchestration platform. Let’s dive into the latest techniques and innovations for mastering LLM deployments! 1. Deploying Small LLMs on Kubernetes: A Balancing Act 🛠️ Getting started with smaller LLMs (around 1 billion parameters) on Kubernetes can be surprisingly tricky. A recent presentation highlighted a practical approach using the VLM framework, demonstrating how to leverage Kubernetes for container orchestration and kubectl for management. ...

October 6, 2025 · 4 min