💥 Tech Talks Weekly #33: Devoxx Belgium 2024, DDD Europe 2024 and many more!

2024-10-17: Featuring all the newly uploaded talks from Devoxx Belgium 2024, PyCon DE 2024, PyData Berlin 2024, Beam Summit 2024 and many more!

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Happy Thursday 👋

Welcome to the 33. issue of Tech Talks Weekly!

This time, we have 23 fresh talks that have been uploaded in the past 7 days from 6 conferences including Devoxx Belgium 2024, GOTO 2024, DDD Europe 2024 and many more.

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🏆 Featured talks of the week

Here are the must-watch talks uploaded since the last issue.

1. "Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java by Balkrishna Rawool" ⸱ +3k views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 36s

   “Have you wondered how virtual threads in Java are able to provide such high scalability? How is JVM able to switch between so many virtual threads while executing a single platform thread? If you did then this talk is for you. (…)”

2. "Supercharge your Java Applications with Python! by Fabio Niephaus, Thomas Wuerthinger" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 58s

   “Projects such as LangChain4j, Spring AI, and llama3.java got the Java community very excited about AI in the last year. The Python ecosystem also provides many powerful packages for data science, machine learning, and more. Wouldn't it be cool if you, as a Java developer, could benefit from this, too? In this interactive talk, we show how you can use GraalPy, the Python runtime built by the GraalVM team, to embed Python in your Java applications. (…)”

3. "Dealing with JSON in the relational world by Andres Almiray" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 51s

4. "What's the Best Big Data Architecture for You? • Christoph Windheuser • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 14 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 43m 33s

   “(…) In this talk, we will look into the history, present and future of big data architectures. We will shed light on competing big data architecture patterns like Data Mesh, Data Lakehouse, Data Fabric and Data Vault. What are the differences, what are the main challenges to implement them in an organization? And what will the future of big data architectures look like?”

📆 New talks

Here’s a list of all the recently uploaded talks since the last issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.

DDD Europe 2024

1. "Shades of Conway's Law - Thierry de Pauw - DDD Europe" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 14 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 23s

Devoxx Belgium 2024

1. "Continuations: The magic behind virtual threads in Java by Balkrishna Rawool" ⸱ +3k views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 36s

2. "Dealing with JSON in the relational world by Andres Almiray" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 51s

3. "Supercharge your Java Applications with Python! by Fabio Niephaus, Thomas Wuerthinger" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 58s

4. "Cracking the Code Review by Paco van Beckhoven" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 05s

5. "Model Mitosis: Stop making the wrong choice between microservices and monolith by Julien Topçu" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 11s

6. "Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home by Mohamed Baioumy" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 13 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 11s

7. "A Kafka Producer’s Request: Or, There and Back Again by Danica Fine" ⸱ +900 views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 39s

8. "AI-generated recap of Devoxx Belgium 2024 opening keynote : Genesis with Stephan Janssen & friends" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 12m 00s

9. "A Brief History of Data by Tim Berglund" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 32s

10. "Harmonizing Code and Melody: making electronical music in a matter of speaking! by Jan Van Wassenhov" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 12 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 57s

GOTO 2024

1. "Software Architecture for Tomorrow: Expert Talk • Sam Newman & Julian Wood • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 15 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 25s

2. "What's the Best Big Data Architecture for You? • Christoph Windheuser • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 14 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 43m 33s

3. "Navigating Backstage: A Year in Developer Life • Helen Greul • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 16 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 15s

Big Data LDN 2024

1. "Knowledge-Driven Data Management" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 14 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 31s

2. "Delivering on the Promise of AI: Increasing Accuracy With a Semantic Layer" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 14 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 32s

3. "Diversified We Grow - Unlocking the Potential of Diversity in the Age of AI" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 15 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 48s

4. "Building a Data Culture at Scale" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 14 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 34s

5. "Welcome to Big Data LDN 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 14 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 18m 18s

6. "More Than Data Governance" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 14 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 57s

Code BEAM America 2024

1. "Unlock the Power of OpenID Connect on the BEAM - Jonatan Männchen | Code BEAM America 2024" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 13 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 53s

ServerlessDays 2024

1. "Evolving Serverless Architectures" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 15 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 32s

2. "Aviva Zero: Carbon-Conscious Car Insurance, evolving our Serverless Architecture" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 16 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 51s

Enjoy the weekend ☀️ and see you next week!