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

Think with your hands: introduction to Lego Serious Play by Annabelle Buffart

Presenters Annabelle Buffart Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 🚀 Unlock Your Team’s Potential: A Deep Dive into Lego Serious Play 💡 Ever feel like your team isn’t quite on the same page? Do you struggle to get everyone’s perspectives heard, especially when dealing with complex technical concepts? There’s a surprisingly fun and powerful solution: Lego Serious Play (LSP). This isn’t just about playing with Lego; it’s a facilitated methodology designed to unlock hidden knowledge, build shared understanding, and foster innovation. Let’s explore how it works and how you can start using it today! ...

October 7, 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

API Management for AI: Governing Ingress and Egress Traffic.

Presenters Pubudu Gunatilaka Source apidays London 2025 🚀 Governing AI Traffic: Securing Your Egress in the Age of AI 🤖 The rise of AI is transforming how we build and deploy applications. We’re no longer just adding AI; we’re embedding it from the ground up. But this exciting shift also brings new challenges – particularly when it comes to managing the outbound traffic, or egress, from your applications. A recent presentation highlighted a critical blind spot in many organizations: the neglect of egress API management. Let’s dive in! ...

October 7, 2025 · 4 min

Lost in Translation: Unlocking Integration Success Beyond AsyncAPI.

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.” ...

October 7, 2025 · 4 min