Applications can leverage GenAI to perform a number of tasks that can e very helpful for the end users. However, integrating GenAI into any application development comes with a number of new challenges and paradigm shifts. In my talk at AICamp Chicago, we discussed several topics on what those challenges are and what are some of the tools and techniques that can help simplify the adoption process. We discussed, among other things:

• New AI specific tasks that teams have to add to their development lifecycle
• How to tame the input and output of an LLM model
• Choosing the correct model
• The importance of monitoring models
• And so much more!

LangChain is one of the most popular AI development ecosystems in current times. Below are the slides from my talk at AI Camp about using Langchain to build GenAI based applications faster and more reliably. During the talk we touched on using:

• Langserve and LangChain Templates to get started in your journey quickly. We also used it debug and test our application.

• LangChain to quickly integrate our data with a couple of LLMs and create different chains to accomplish multiple tasks with the models

• LangChain Hub to reuse our model prompts

• LangSmith to trace the calls to the language model, monitor our application over time and evaluate our results toward various metrics (e.g.: Relevance, insensitivity)

Click on the image below to see the slides and also visit the repo to see the sample application  code in GitHub

My colleagues and I ran into some merge conflicts when working in a serverless application. These types of conflicts are quite common in this type of application as working with Open API and CloudFront templates as multiple developers usually need to update those files in a regular basis. Here is a link to a blog post we co-authored in December 2022 that discusses how to prevent those issues and make sure teams stay productive. Click the image to read more!

Microservices promise to significantly simplify application development. However without the right tools, complexity can quickly escalate.  Click on the image below to see my slides from ADDO 2021 and get an introduction on how these two tools can become the cornerstone of a team's journey into microservices.

Having trouble keeping managing and keeping track of your microservices? Check out my slides from CD Con 2021 earlier this year on how opens source solution Ortelius can help! Click on the image below to open the slides

Getting started with microservices? Here a some quick tips and trick to get you going quickly and reliably. These are the slides from my presentation at the 2021 Central Wisconsin IT conference! Click on the image below to see the slides.

Slides from my session at Hashitalks 2021

As we build distributed applications and microservices, it is important to have a plan that allows easy, consistent management of applications' credentials. The talk discusses how to use Vault to simplify credentials management of a sample microservices application running in Kubernetes. It shows how to achieve our objective without having to modify any of the existing application code.

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Kubernetes is one of the hottest technologies currently in the market. It has the ability to orchestrate application by automatically handling common, yet critical, tasks like application deployment, scaling and service discovery.

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