Jake Luciani

Jake Luciani

DataStax
Jake Luciani is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of expertise in distributed systems, finance, and manufacturing. Currently, he serves as the Chief Architect at DataStax, where he oversees the Astra serverless DBaaS. Jake is an active member of the Apache Foundation and contributes to the project committees of Apache Cassandra, Arrow, and Thrift. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Cognitive Science from Lehigh University.
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Jake Luciani
Jake Luciani
DataStax

Jlama: A Native Java LLM inference engine

This talk explains JLama, a modern inference engine bringing AI to Java without requiring GPUs. It supports open models like Llama and Gemma, using Java 21's Vector API for speedy inference. It integr...
Data & (Gen)AI Data & (Gen)AI Conference 50 min. INTERMEDIATE