TEDXKE 2025
Amersfoort, The Netherlands —
TED-style Xebia knowledge sharing session (XKE) in the Flint theatre in Amersfoort, sharing experiences on a three month working engagement at a health-tech company in Kenya.
Python Devcontainer with uv
Devcontainers are very powerful. So is uv. How do we combine the two?
Are you ready for MLOps?
MLOps has survived the hype cycle and is gaining in maturity. But are we looking at MLOps for answers for the right things? When should you even start thinking about MLOps, or when is ‘plain’ DevOps wiser to focus on first?
PyData Eindhoven 2024
Eindhoven, The Netherlands —
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is powerful. Let's go from Basic (chunking, vector embeddings, nearest-neighbor search) to Hybrid Search (TF-IDF, BM-25 and Reciprocal Rank Fusion) to Advanced (PDF parsing, tables, graphs) and finally, the cutting edge: Multimodal.
AI Community Day 2024
Utrecht, The Netherlands —
LLMOps on Azure: scaling RAG applications, using Azure AI Search (keyword and vector search, reciprocal rank fusion), hosting LLM apps on Azure Container Apps, IaC with Terraform, robust CI/CD setups and an elaborate observability stack with Langfuse/OpenTelemetry.
