System Architecture and Design

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. ⛈️ ...

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! ...

Presenters Dr. Shaolei Ren D’ Mohammad Islam Gaël Duez Source Green IO podcast Data Centers & Our Water: Are They Really Taking Our Faucets? 💧👨‍💻🌐 The tech world is obsessed with energy consumption – and rightly so. But there’s another, often overlooked, resource that powers our digital lives: water. And the growing footprint of data centers is putting a serious strain on local resources. This post dives into a fascinating discussion from the Green IO podcast, unpacking the complexities of data center water usage and separating fact from fiction. Let’s get into it! 🚀 ...

Presenters Piotr Sarna Glauber Costa Source GOTO podcast Decoding the Tech Blog: Recognizing Patterns for Writers & Readers 🚀💡👨‍💻 Ever feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of technical content online? Do you struggle to discern the truly valuable posts from the noise? Or maybe you’re a technical writer looking for ways to structure your own content more effectively? If so, you’re in the right place! This post dives into a fascinating conversation about the often-overlooked patterns that underpin successful technical blogs. It’s not just about what’s written, but how it’s written. Let’s unpack this! ...

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. ...