Data Engineering

Presenters Jaime Del Palacio Source Scale Product 2025 🚀 Bringing Instagram to Life in VR: A Deep Dive into Spatial Media at Scale 🌐 Instagram’s journey into the metaverse is gaining serious traction! Jaime Del Palasio, a software engineer on the Instagram VR team, recently shared a fascinating look at how they’re building a native Instagram app for Quest headsets. It’s not just about slapping a 3D interface onto the existing app; it’s a complete rethinking of the Instagram experience to be truly immersive. Let’s dive into the technical challenges and innovative solutions behind bringing spatial media to millions. ...

Presenters Daniel Byrant Source InfoQ podcast 🤯 The AI Rush: Are We Building a House of Cards? 🚀 The pressure is on. Every tech leader is feeling it: the relentless push to adopt AI. But is this rush driven by genuine strategic value, or simply by a fear of being left behind? 🤔 Recent conversations have revealed a fascinating tension – a desire to embrace the future colliding with the realities of budget constraints, increased complexity, and a growing awareness that AI adoption isn’t a guaranteed win. Let’s dive into what’s really happening and how we can navigate this exciting, but potentially overwhelming, landscape. ...

Presenters Alex Bunardzic Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 🚀 Unearthing Domain Details with Test-Driven Navigation and AI Assistance: A Deep Dive 🤖 Software development is constantly evolving, and we’re seeing exciting new approaches emerge that leverage the power of AI and a deeper understanding of the problem at hand. This post dives into a fascinating presentation segment exploring Test-Driven Navigation (TDN) – a method that uses failing tests to guide development and employs AI tools like Claude to rapidly uncover and solidify domain understanding. Let’s explore how this approach is changing the game! ...

Presenters Alex Gavrilescu Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 🚀 Agent-Driven Development: Supercharging Your Workflow with Backlog and Codex Web 🤖 Are you ready to unlock a new level of efficiency in your software development process? This post dives into a fascinating approach combining the power of AI agents with a structured workflow using Backlog and Codex Web. Forget tedious, repetitive tasks – let’s explore how to augment your development capabilities and build better software, faster! ...

Presenters Merlin Bögershausen Source Devoxx Belgium 2025 🚀 Level Up Your Codebase: Introducing Open Rewrite - The Future of Automated Code Migration 🛠️ Keeping your codebases modern and secure is a constant challenge. Manual migrations are time-consuming, error-prone, and drain valuable resources. But what if you could automate much of that process? Enter Open Rewrite, a game-changing open-source tool that’s poised to revolutionize how we manage code. Let’s dive in and explore how it can help you! ...