Cloud Native Community Ruhr Meetup February 2025

Welcome to the Cloud Native Ruhr Community Meetup!

We are delighted to invite you to a new Meetup, on February 4th, 2025. Join us to listen to great speakers and network with fellow Kubernetes enthusiasts over pizza and drinks!

Location
Edgeless Systems' HQ, Stadionring 1, 44791, Bochum.

Agenda
6:00-6:20 Drinks and welcome
6:20-6:40 "Ephemeral Containers in Kubernetes" by Tim Schrumpf (Senior SRE, Vorwerk)
6:40-6:50 Q&A
6:50-7:30 Pizza break 🍕🍕
7:30-8:00 "Learning GenAI/LLM programming with langchain4j and Testcontainers" by Kevin Wittek (Sr. Engineering Manager, Docker)
8:00-8:10 Q&A
8:10-8:45 Networking, refreshments (Beers, soft drinks)

Talks abstracts
Ephemeral Containers in Kubernetes
A deep dive in how ephemeral containers work and how they can help you with your cluster operations while making your containers safer.

Learning GenAI/LLM programming with langchain4j and Testcontainers
GenAI and LLMs are currently a big hype topic within the IT industry and beyond. And while we should always be critical about “The next big thing” style hype waves, we also need to stay curious and make up our own mind. And how to better understand a technology as a developer, than by using it in practice?
In this talk, we want to look at how to use langchain4j, the Open-Source Java variant of the popular LLM framework langchain, together with Ollama as a local LLM model runtime, to create a local development experience for building GenAI applications. And to top things off, we will utilize Testcontainers’ infrastructure-as-code capabilities to set up this LLM development environment on demand and without requiring manual fiddling around.

Are you interested in speaking or contributing at the next Meetup? Send us your submission here!!

This group is managed and sponsored by Edgeless Systems, a cybersecurity start-up based in Bochum, Germany. Edgeless Systems develops leading open-source software for confidential computing. Find more info here.

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