XConf Europe 2024
2024-10-22
Barcelona, Spain
[XConf Europe 2022, XConf Europe 2023, XConf Europe 2024, XConf Europe 2025, XConf Europe 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| XConf Europe 2024 | 01m | |
Practical, on-the-ground case studies about engineering work rather than high-level theory, with attendees trading specific failures and fixes for deployment… | ||
| GenAI-assisted reverse engineering for incremental Legacy modernisation | Tom Coggrave, Alessio Ferri | 39m |
Mainframe modernization uses incremental seams and GenAI to avoid big‑bang rewrites: a PoC called CodeConcise parses COBOL and Java with ASTs, builds a Neo4j… | ||
| GenAI synthetic data used to fine tune a domain specific model | Siobhan Hughes, Meissane Chami | 20m |
Fine-tunes an open‑source CLIP (ViT‑B/32) model (≈151M parameters) with synthetic labels generated by GPT‑4 Vision, using ~5k London street‑view image–text… | ||
| Are your tests slowing you down? | Trisha Gee | 55m |
Survey results show many devs say writing tests slows them down more than running them, and 70% of surveyed Maven users skip tests; root causes split into… | ||
| Building data mesh on Databricks and Azure for a large manufacturing company | Rieke Heinze, Dominika Makuch | 29m |
A data mesh for a large European manufacturer runs on Azure ADLS + one Databricks workspace per product and a separate storage account per product, with Unity… | ||
| Lesson learned implementing a large-scale data mesh transformation | Alessandro Confetti, Till Keyling | 38m |
Three-year Data Mesh at PAYBACK reorients organization (domain-driven design, PO/BO/TO trinity) while migrating on‑prem Oracle workloads to GCP and BigQuery… | ||
| Unlocking Backstage's potential: insights and solutions for a smoother developer experience | Germelinda Musliaj, Abel Guillen | 39m |
Backstage is shown working as an orchestrator: teams build software templates that generate repos and create YAML-registered components, then custom actions… | ||
| How to measure your software's impact on the planet | Minette Mangahas, Andy Symonds | 37m |
The Green Software Foundation’s Impact Framework is a Node.js engine that runs a YAML manifest + plugins pipeline to turn cloud observations into energy and… | ||
| Evaluating LLM systems: the nuts and bolts | Aili Asikainen, Oege Dijk | 35m |
Argues that systematic evaluation is the key to shipping reliable LLM products, showing concrete methods: use LLM-as-judge (e.g. GPT‑4 scoring GPT‑3.5)… | ||
| Fireside Chat: Continuous Deployment | Valentina Servile | 31m |
Defines continuous deployment as every commit to main goes to production without manual checks and argues that doing so simplifies the release workflow, cuts… | ||
| Cloud cost chaos? Get clarity with FinOps cloud cost management | Maria Valero Campaña | 46m |
Cloud costs fall from surprise to predictable by: inventorying big spend (observability and idle VMs), replacing heavy logs with Grafana and Prometheus metrics… | ||
| Digitalizing a critical, highly distributed infrastructure company | Andreas Reisenauer | 46m |
Elia Group is building a sovereign private cloud that treats 800 Belgian and ~100 German substations as distributed data centers (5–10 MW centrally, hundreds… | ||
| Measuring Developer Productivity: The Good, the Bad and the Data | Marco Pierbon | 43m |
Argues that productivity must measure business impacts not code volume and combines quantitative metrics with qualitative surveys; endorses DORA for deployment… | ||
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