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)

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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.

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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Slides from my second session at DevOps World 2020:

The cloud has allowed us to create fast, highly available distributed applications. However that has come at the price of application complexity. Developers must now not only create the application, but must also learn to use containers, pipelines and orchestrators. The session explores how JenkinsX can help accelerate project startup and development by simplifying many of the tasks that allow us to build cloud applications

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Slides from my DevOps World 2020 session on improving your work-life balance by automating mundane development and deployments tasks using Docker, Jenkins and Minikube. Click on the image below to open the presentation.

Deck from my presentation at the Milwaukee Code Camp. The topic of the talk was about enhancing project productivity and improving developer work-life balance by automating non value-add tasks using Docker, Jenkins and Minikube (Kubernetes). Indeed, it is estimated that 35 - 40 % of a developer's time in a project is used in tasks that do not add end user value (deploying, setting up environments, etc...). While these tasks are important and necessary, there is no reason  we cannot automate them and give that time back to the developer.

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It was fun presenting at the Central Wisconsin IT conference over the weekend! I illustrated how containers improve productivity and enhance project ROI. Great audience and excellent discussions! Click on the image below to get the slides for the presentation.