Cloud Native Community Ruhr May Meetup

Welcome to the Cloud Native Ruhr Community Meetup!

We are delighted to invite you to a new Meetup, on May 13th, 2025. Join us to listen to great speakers and network with fellow Kubernetes enthusiasts over pizza, snacks and drinks!

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

Agenda
6:00-6:15 Drinks and welcome
6:15-6:45 "Learning GenAI/LLM programming with langchain4j and Testcontainers" by Kevin Wittek (Sr. Engineering Manager, Docker)
6:45-6:50 Q&A
6:50-7:30 Pizza break 🍕🍕
7:30-8:00 TBD Talk
8:00-8:10 Q&A
8:10-8:45 Networking, refreshments (Beers, soft drinks)

Talks abstracts

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.

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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. You can also find all our open-source software here: https://github.com/edgelesssys.

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