XConf Europe 2025
2025-09-18
Madrid, Spain
[XConf Europe 2022, XConf Europe 2023, XConf Europe 2024, XConf Europe 2025, XConf Europe 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Madrid highlights | 01m | |
A fast montage of XConf Europe highlights shows short clips of generative AI code demos, a practical legacy modernization checklist, and a concrete roadmap for… | ||
| AI in action: Boost productivity and deliver business value with practical tools | Sara Michelazzo | 33m |
Thoughtworks reports hands‑on use of Gemini and NotebookLM plus enterprise search like Glean and low‑code agents to accelerate knowledge work: a custom Apps… | ||
| Things you thought you didn’t need to care about that have a big impact on your job | Holly Cummins | 56m |
Describes concrete surprises: a naive Bayes spam example gives ~60% “spamicity” from a single token; a 99%‑accurate static analyzer still yields only ~50%… | ||
| Incremental Modernization through CodeConcise | Jonathan Passé, Shodhan Sheth | 41m |
Modernization work claims a 70–80% failure rate and pursues a different path by combining deterministic analysis with Generative AI to produce actionable… | ||
| Is clean code dead? | Sarah Schmid | 25m |
Argues that clean code is under threat from delivery pressure, AI-assisted coding, fewer juniors and unclear ownership, and shows practical fixes: rename and… | ||
| Unlock the full potential of Generative AI with Agent Platforms | Fabian Nonnenmacher | 34m |
Blueprint for building an internal agent platform that moves beyond ad‑hoc pilots to production: use existing microservice runtimes and CI/CD, give teams fast… | ||
| Pairing with the machine: How AI Agents are rewriting the rules of software development | Satish Kumar Nadarajan | 29m |
Claim: autonomous agents can reason across project context, recall architectural decisions, use RAG, memory and tool orchestration to act as a pair programmer… | ||
| Training without sharing: Is Federated Learning the answer to data privacy in AI? | Emma Manna Loyarte | 34m |
Compares centralized fine‑tuning to federated training using I2B2 datasets, a pretrained BERT (clinical variant) fine‑tuned for named‑entity recognition, and a… | ||
| Application-Driven Infrastructure | Kief Morris | 27m |
Argues for an application-driven model where each artifact carries an infrastructure specification and small, composable infra components are deployed per… | ||
| Streaming: Real-Time Architecture for Connected Products in Automotive | Baran Demir, Dima Fateev | 31m |
Built a real-time streaming service to meet the EU Data Act using Kafka compacted topics for configs, Kinesis for upstream ingestion, DynamoDB for lookups, a… | ||
| Policy-Aware Infrastructure Generation: Using an MCP Server to Bridge OPA and AI for Terraform | Óscar Cobles | 37m |
Claims a working prototype that connects an MCP server to an OPA REST API so LLMs receive live constraints (allowed instance types, required tags, open ports)… | ||
| Fight the big ball of mud with business capability mapping | Jen Wallace | 30m |
10+ teams and 60+ developers already produce over 30 services and surface about 40 capabilities; a two-person tech+BA pair reads Confluence, ADRs and diagrams… | ||
| "Port & Mend" over rewrite. Reducing the cost & risk of dealing with legacy code | Matteo Vaccari | 31m |
Porting a VAX FORTRAN control program to a PC (.NET Fortran compiler), running it in parallel to compare outputs, and fixing race conditions yields a working… | ||
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