Talks at Devoxx Belgium
Discover 216 amazing talks from world-class speakers
10 Truths in Distributed System Design
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Architecture 
10 Years of Devoxx4Kids
In Belgium Devoxx4Kids was founded in 2013. After that many other countries did follow.Time to have a get together with all Devoxx4Kids enthusiastic t...
People & Culture 
15 Essential Do’s and Don’ts with Apache Kafka
This session will share 15 best practices for using Kafka, including managing replication factors, controlling partitions, and enforcing properties li...
Development Practices 
1BRC – Nerd Sniping the Java Community
The text outlines an invitation to a talk on the "One Billion Row Challenge" that involves aggregating temperature values from a large CSV file. The s...
Java 
A better Jupyter Experience for Java Developers - JTaccuino unveiled
The session introduces JTaccuino, a new tool for interactive Java computing that offers a seamless experience, rapid development cycle, and a graphica...
Java 
A Brief History of Data
The text explores the evolution of data processing, from the earliest computing technologies to real-time, streaming data. It tracks the progression f...
Data & (Gen)AI 
A Developer's Tale: Migrating an Angular app from version 10 to 18
This talk details the real-world process of upgrading the Devoxx CFP application from Angular 10 to Angular 18, including the challenges and practical...
UI & UX 
A Free Alternative to Docker: Podman
This session introduces Podman, a free Docker alternative that implements Docker's REST API, facilitating easy replacement while maintaining existing...
Build & Deploy 
A Kafka Producer’s Request: Or, There and Back Again
The session covers the complex process of writing to Kafka from the programmer's perspective, explaining how producer.send() calls are translated into...
Data & (Gen)AI 
A Passwordless Future! Passkeys for Java Developers
This session aims to educate on passkeys, a form of passwordless authentication that enhances security and usability while eliminating vulnerabilities...
Security 
Accelerating performance of Java applications on Arm64
The presentation will delve into Java application performance optimization, particularly on Arm64 processors. It will cover JVM improvements, configur...
Java 
AI and Code Quality: Building a Synergy with Human Intelligence
AI-generated code quality hinges on data and coding standards. As AI acts as a development co-pilot, adherence to team practices is vital to avoid mai...
Data & (Gen)AI 
AI-Powered Development: Hands-On Techniques for Immediate Impact
This session provides a tour of new advancements in coding with AI and LLMs, showcasing how to accelerate development and dissolve knowledge silos. At...
Data & (Gen)AI 
Apache Maven BOF
I would like to provide a way for the Apache Maven User Community (also for Apache Maven Developers) to come together and talk about different topics...
Build & Deploy 
Architecting a Sustainable Future
This talk aims to increase awareness about sustainability in the IT field. It will test the audience's knowledge on device energy usage, creating awar...
People & Culture 
Architecting for Tomorrow: A Pragmatic Perspective
This session explores pragmatic architecture, emphasizing adaptive decision-making, learning through a "Fail-fast" approach, and effective communicati...
Development Practices 
Ask the Architect
Ask them anything related to the Java language with the Oracle engineers making it happen!
Java 
AsyncAPI & Springwolf - Automated documentation (and more)
The talk focuses on AsyncAPI, an open-source specification for documenting event-driven APIs, and Springwolf, an implementation for Spring Boot applic...
Development Practices 
Atomicity and Consistency Across Databases and Messaging Systems
In modern application development, engineers frequently encounter the challenge of synchronizing database transactions with messaging activities. Ensu...
Architecture 
Automated Accessibility Testing
New laws in the EU require many digital products to be accessible from June 2025 on. One of the biggest problems when building an accessible product:...
Development Practices 
Avoid common LLM pitfalls
This talk will overview the latest advancements and limitations in multi-modal Large Language Models (LLMs). It will also discuss techniques to overco...
Data & (Gen)AI 
Avoiding career pitfalls — A well-grounded software engineer
The talk provides strategies to help software engineers navigate their career paths successfully. It emphasizes cultivating a strong foundation, setti...
People & Culture 
Back to the 80s - NES Assembly programming
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to learn about 80s game development and low-level programming concepts. Participants will experience program...
Mind the Geek 
Batch Processing at Scale: a hands-on JobRunr workshop with experiments on Raspberry Pi
This workshop will provide a practical exploration of JobRunr, an open-source Java library for efficient job scheduling. Participants will learn how t...
Server Side Java 
Be My Eyes - Leveraging Generative AI to help the blind and visually impaired people
The speaker will present "Be My Eyes," a project utilizing Generative AI and computer vision to narrate real-time surroundings for the visually impair...
Data & (Gen)AI