Data Engineering

Presenters Carlos Sanch Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 🚀 Level Up Your Deployments: Introducing AI-Powered Canary Deployments 🤖 Deploying new features can be nerve-wracking. That moment of truth when you push code live – will it break everything? What if it introduces a critical bug impacting thousands of users? Thankfully, there’s a safer way. This post dives into a fascinating approach: AI-powered canary deployments. Buckle up, because we’re about to explore how AI can revolutionize your deployment pipeline! ...

Presenters Iliass Ziani Shivasheesh Tripathi Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 Beyond Self-Service: ING’s Journey to Developer Productivity Through “Toil Hunt” 🚀 For years, organizations have chased the promise of DevOps and Platform Engineering – the holy grail of faster software delivery and happier developers. But what happens when self-service platforms and automated pipelines still leave developers feeling frustrated and bogged down? ING, a global financial institution, discovered this firsthand. They’re sharing their journey, and it’s a powerful lesson in what really drives developer productivity. 💡 ...

Presenters Bert Jan Schrijver Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 Level Up Your Software Architecture: It’s All About Trade-offs 🚀💡 Software architecture can feel overwhelming. It’s a world of acronyms, patterns, and seemingly endless choices. But don’s let it intimidate you! This post distills the key takeaways from a recent presentation, breaking down the principles and practices you need to make smarter architectural decisions. Get ready to shift your mindset – because it’s all about trade-offs! ...

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 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. ⛈️ ...