Alessandro Vermeulen

As I prom­ised in A fresh leaf, I want to share my ex­per­i­ences with us­ing LLMs for agen­tic de­vel­op­ment in the last three months. Sum­mar­ised: I star­ted as an ini­tial scep­tic, be­came quite en­thu­si­astic, and am now mod­er­ately en­thu­si­astic and guarded for the fu­ture. Al­low me to take you through my jour­ney.

It has been a very long time since I pos­ted a new art­icle. The reas­ons for this are quite com­mon­place. Start­ing a fam­ily and build­ing a ca­reer cap­tured both my in­terest and en­ergy, leav­ing little of either for shar­ing.

FinagleCon was held at TwitterHQ in San Fran­cisco. It is re­fresh­ing to see a nice work­ing at­mo­sphere with free food and drinks. Now for the con­tents.

Docker’s new tools an­nounced at DockerCon ad­dress pro­vi­sion­ing, clus­ter­ing, and ap­plic­a­tion or­ches­tra­tion.

The Ad­vanced Akka course is provided by Typesafe and is aimed at teach­ing ad­vanced us­ages of Akka. The course cov­ers the ba­sics of Akka, Re­mot­ing, Clus­ter­ing, Routers, CRDTs, Cluster Shard­ing and Akka Per­sist­ance. The fol­low­ing post starts with a gen­eral in­tro­duc­tion to Akka and presents the takeaways from the course as we ex­per­i­enced them.