Data Engineering

Presenters Daniel Kocot Source apidays London 2025 🚀 Beyond the Code: Why Shared Meaning is the Key to Event-Driven Integration 🌐 Event-driven architecture (EDA) has become a buzzword, promising scalability and decoupling for modern systems. But are you truly reaping the benefits? Daniel Katzard, Principal Consultant at Codecentric, recently delivered a presentation that cut through the hype, revealing a critical truth: events don’t integrate systems; shared meaning does. 🎯 Many organizations are struggling with integration failures despite implementing asynchronous APIs (like Async API) and CI/CD pipelines. Why? Because the business understanding of those events often lags far behind the technical implementation. It’s a classic case of “lost in translation.” ...

Presenters Peng Wang Source apidays London 2025 🚀 Simplifying AI Application Development: Beyond the Rag Complexity 💡 Hey everyone! 👋 Peng Wang here, and it was a pleasure sharing insights at API Days London. We’re seeing a massive shift in how we build applications, driven by the rise of AI. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has been a key ingredient, but let’s be honest, it’s often a messy, complex undertaking. Today, we’ll explore how to simplify that process and build AI-powered applications faster and more reliably. ...

Presenters Will Venters Source apidays London 2025 🚀 Navigating the Digital Jungle: Mastering API Ecosystems with a New Approach 🌐 The digital landscape is evolving faster than ever. We’re building complex systems, relying on countless APIs, and navigating a world of cloud-based services. But are we truly understanding the systems we’re building? Are we managing them strategically, or just reacting to the latest fire? This presentation dives deep into a critical, often overlooked aspect of modern technology: the strategic modeling of API ecosystems. It’s a call to action for tech leaders to shift their perspective and embrace a more holistic approach. ...

Presenters Elena Samuylova Source InfoQ Podcast Level Up Your LLM Game: Mastering Evaluation Beyond the Hype 🚀💡👨‍💻🤖 Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing how we interact with technology, but building reliable and accurate LLM applications requires more than just clever prompts and powerful models. It demands a rigorous evaluation process – and that’s where things often get overlooked. This presentation highlighted a critical need: bridging the gap between technical teams and domain experts to ensure LLMs deliver on their promise. ...

Presenters Serge Dubrouski Source All Systems Go! 2025 Scaling OS Management: Lessons from Meta’s Journey with CentOS and Beyond 🚀 Managing a fleet of millions of servers? It’s a challenge that requires more than just clever scripts – it demands a fundamental shift in how you approach operating system (OS) management. That’s exactly what Meta (formerly Facebook) tackled, and they recently shared their journey at a tech conference. This post dives into their experiences with CentOS, the innovative tools they’re building, and the future of OS management at scale. 💡 ...