Alex Soto
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where they keep going back
- I/O8 editions2016–2026
- Devnexus3 editions2022–2025
- Devoxx Belgium2 editions2017–2024
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- Andy Gumbrechtonce
- Raquel Pauonce
- Sébastien Blanconce
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- Timo Salm17 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Protecting Sensitive Data in the Age of Generative AI | Spring I/O 2026 | 2026-04-13 |
Shows concrete attack classes—prompt injection, RAG vector leakage and poisoning, MCP/agent tool spoofing—and live Java demos that actually detect or mitigate… | ||
| Beyond the Hype: Building Trustworthy and Reliable LLM Applications with Guardrails | WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 | 2025-07-09 |
Practical recipe for LLM safety: Java app uses Ollama with Granite 3 Guardian 2B plus classifiers (BERTa zero‑shot, VGG‑based relevance, Code‑Albert… | ||
| Taming Testing of AI apps | Spring I/O 2025 | 2025-05-22 |
Describes four concrete testing layers: fast CI-style checks that turn temperature down and demand structured output (JSON schema via LangChain4j), mid‑level… | ||
| AI Agents Graph: Your Following Tool in Your Java AI Journey | Codemotion Madrid 2025 | 2025-05-20 |
Claims a concrete stack: LangChain4j for LLM plumbing plus LangGraph to orchestrate agents as cyclic, stateful graphs that can pause, resume and persist… | ||
| Connecting Applications Across the Hybrid Cloud | Devnexus 2025 | 2025-03-04 |
Claim: open‑source Skupper provides application‑layer connectivity across hybrid clouds using MQP over TLS, so services keep their local DNS names while… | ||
| Progressive Delivery in the Kubernetes era | Porto Tech Hub Conference 2024 | 2024-11-26 |
Demonstration shows progressive delivery implemented on Kubernetes with Istio, Argo Rollouts and Argo CD: automated canary steps push 80/20 then 50/50 rollouts… | ||
| Developing Cloud-Native Java AI applications with DJL and LangChain4J | Devoxx Belgium 2024 | 2024-10-07 |
Shows concrete Java pipelines: uses DJL to train or infer (example: an 8‑megabyte ONNX fraud model that maps float inputs to boolean decisions) and LangChain4J… | ||
| Progressive Delivery in the Kubernetes era | ContainerDays Conference 2024 | 2024-09-03 |
Demonstrates progressive delivery recipes on Kubernetes with working demos: blue‑green, percentage canaries (examples 75/25 and 80/20), traffic mirroring… | ||
| Keeping Kubernetes secrets secret | Conf42 DevSecOps 2023 | 2023-11-30 |
Kubernetes Secret is just Base64 not encryption and the demo shows creating a Secret, converting it to a sealed-secrets manifest that uses a controller public… | ||
| Securing Secrets in the GitOps era | DevOps Barcelona Conference 2023 | 2023-11-09 |
Kubernetes stores secrets base64-encoded in etcd so they’re readable if you get the data store; two pragmatic GitOps fixes: Sealed Secrets encrypts YAML… | ||
| GitOps in Kubernetes | stackconf 2023 | 2023-09-13 |
A live demo shows Argo CD deploying a Kubernetes Rock‑Paper‑Scissors app that replaces button input with a camera‑based classifier; components are a Node.js… | ||
| Securing Secrets in the GitOps Era | JCON Europe 2023 | 2023-06-20 |
Kubernetes Secrets are just base64-encoded by default, so the talk shows concrete fixes: use Sealed Secrets (kubeseal encrypts YAML with a cluster public key)… | ||
| Progressive Delivery in the Kubernetes era | Spring I/O 2023 | 2023-05-18 |
Shows how to run canaries and blue‑green switches on Kubernetes using Istio for routing, Prometheus for metrics and Argo Rollouts to automate steps and… | ||
| From Monolith to (µ)Services. What happens with my Data? | Devnexus 2023 | 2023-04-04 |
Concrete recipe to migrate a monolith piece-by-piece: use the Strangler fig pattern and change-data-capture so MySQL transaction logs (via Debezium) publish… | ||
| Change Data Streaming For Spring Boot With Apache Kafka and Debezium | Spring I/O 2022 | 2022-05-26 |
Shows how Debezium + Kafka + Spring Boot solve dual-write inconsistency by capturing DB changes and streaming them reliably. Uses Postgres + Spring Data JPA… | ||
| Keeping Kubernetes Secrets | Devnexus 2022 | 2022-04-12 |
Kubernetes Secrets are base64 not encrypted and live in etcd as readable data unless extra layers are added; kubeseal + SealedSecrets encrypts YAML for Git but… | ||
| Serverless-Native Java with Quarkus | J-Fall Virtual 2020 | 2020-11-03 |
Quarkus on K native demonstrates a Java serverless stack: container images run on Kubernetes with K native serving and eventing, automatic scale-to-zero… | ||
| Java Particle Acceleration using Quarkus | JAX London 2019 | 2019-10-07 |
Quarkus claims to cut Java cloud footprint dramatically: typical cloud stack uses ~220 MB, Quarkus on JVM ~130 MB and GraalVM native ~35 MB, with… | ||
| All about Quarkus | JAX London 2019 | 2019-10-07 |
Quarkus pairs with GraalVM native image to compile Java down to native executables, claiming drastic resource cuts (typical Java 200MB → 15MB RAM in native… | ||
| Zero Downtime Migrations with Spring Boot | Spring I/O 2019 | 2019-05-16 |
Shows concrete zero-downtime recipes for Spring Boot services running on Kubernetes/OpenShift using Istio sidecar and kubectl commands; demos use Postgres… | ||
| KubeBoot - Spring Boot deployment on Kubernetes | J-Fall 2018 | 2018-11-08 |
Demonstrates deploying Spring Boot apps to Kubernetes end-to-end using the fabric8 Maven plugin to auto-generate Dockerfiles, build images, push to a registry… | ||
| Istio Service Mesh & pragmatic microservices architecture | Software Crafters Barcelona 2018 | 2018-09-29 |
Shows Istio running on Kubernetes with Envoy sidecars and real demos: a customer/preference/recommendation app with v1/v2 versions. Configures 75/25 canary… | ||
| KubeBoot - Spring Boot deployment on Kubernetes | Spring I/O 2018 | 2018-05-24 |
Demonstrates concrete steps and working demos: a Spring Boot app is built, containerized and deployed with the Fabric8 Maven plugin and scaled to two pods… | ||
| Deploy microservices with Certainty | Oredev 2017 | 2017-11-08 |
Shows that consumer-driven contract tests stop accidental production breakage by example: a deployed change removes a JSON field and causes a runtime error and… | ||
| Using Docker for Testing Legacy Code | Oredev 2017 | 2017-11-08 |
Claim: Docker plus Arquillian Cube automates full test lifecycles so legacy code gets repeatable integration and UI tests. The demo boots Postgres in… | ||
| Testing Java Microservice | Devoxx Belgium 2017 | 2017-11-06 |
Testing strategy layers unit, component and integration tests and adds service-specific tools to keep fast feedback while validating real deployments. Examples… | ||
| Asciidoctor: New, Noteworthy, and Beyond | Devoxx Belgium 2017 | 2017-11-06 |
Asciidoctor adds concrete features: configurable xref styles (full/short), advanced include tag filtering that can exclude tags and strip commented blocks… | ||
| Deploy microservices with Certainty | Devoxx Belgium 2017 | 2017-11-06 |
A small demo service ecosystem runs on OpenShift (Kubernetes) with a Vert.x provider and a RestAssured-based consumer; a careless removal of the provider’s… | ||
| Testing for Unicorns | Spring I/O 2017 | 2017-05-18 |
Shows concrete libraries and how they change tests: AssertJ gives readable, type-aware assertions and soft-assertion batches; Awaitility polls with… | ||
| Controlling Technical Debt With Continuous Delivery | Voxxed Days Vienna 2017 | 2017-03-16 |
Shows how Fabric8 + Jenkins run pipeline-as-code to detect and incrementally check every commit, produce and apply machine-made patches via Walkmod/Maven… | ||
| Continuous Delivery of Microservices using Jenkins and Gradle | Spring I/O 2016 | 2016-05-19 |
Shows how to code a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Gradle that builds a Java WAR, runs unit/integration/functional tests in parallel, creates an aggregated… | ||
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