My buddy Wassim and I were back on stage together to talk about chatbots, with Actions on Google and Dialogflow, at DevFest Lille and Best of Web Paris. I’d like to share with you the slides of the presentation (the video has been recorded and will be available at a later time.) You might be interested in those two codelabs to get started on this journey: Build Actions for the Google Assistant - level 1 Build Actions for the Google Assistant - level 2 Here’s the presentation given at DevFest Lille: Read more...

Last March, I had the chance to attend and speak at QCon London. I spoke at the event for its first edition, many moons prior, so it was fun coming back and seeing how the conference evolved. This year, Eric Horesnyi of Streamdata was leading the Artificial Intelligence track, and invited me to speak about Machine Learning. First, I gave an overview of the Machine Learning offering, from the off-the-shelf ready-made APIs like Vision, Speech, Natural Language, Video Intelligence. Read more...

Back to GR8Conf Europe in Denmark, for the yearly Groovy community reunion! I had the chance to present two talks. The first one on Google’s Machine Learning APIs, with samples in Groovy using vision recognition, speech recognition & generation, natural language analysis. I’ll come back on ML in Groovy in forthcoming articles. And the second talk was an overview of Google Cloud Platform, focusing on the compute and storage options, with demos using Groovy frameworks (Ratpack, Gaelyk, and the newly released Micronaut) and how to deploy apps on Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine. Read more...

What can you learn from millions of (Groovy) source files stored on Github? In this presentation, I analized source files in the Github archives stored on BigQuery, and in particular Groovy source file, but also Gradle build files, or Grails controllers and services. What kind of questions can we answer How many Groovy files are there on Github? What are the most popular Groovy file names? How many lines of Groovy source code are there? Read more...

A few months ago, I had some fun doing the keynote of Voxxed Days Singapore and JUG Summer Camp, and I realized I didn’t get a chance to share my deck. Furthermore, the videos of both events are actually available online: one in English, one in French! I spoke about the so-called IT Holy Wars, you know, like Vi vs Emacs, Tabs & Spaces, or other funny things of that kind. Read more...

ServerlessConf Paris is in full swing this week, and I had the chance yesterday to participate in a workshop with my colleague Frank, to cover building apps for voice, chat, web and mobile, using Google’s serverless solutions. In particular, for voice & chat, I spoke about Dialogflow and Google Assistant / Actions on Google, using Cloud Functions for my business logic, while in the afternoon we covered Firebase un more depth. Read more...

Last month, for the first time, I visited Riga (Latvia), for the DevTernity conference. I really enjoyed my time there, and wish to come back with other topics next time. The organizers took very well care of the speakers, and the presentations were very interesting. I had the pleasure to talk about the pre-trained machine learning APIs provided by Google Cloud Platform, and say a few words as well about TensorFlow and Cloud ML Engine. Read more...

Last week, I was in San Francisco for my tenth JavaOne! I had two sessions: one on the past / present / future of Java Platform-as-a-Service offerings, and one on programming language influences, and particularly how was Apache Groovy influenced, and how it also inspired other languages. Here’s the abstract: Languages have been influencing one another since the dawn of computer programming. There are families of languages: from Algol descendants with begin/end code blocks to those with curly braces such as C. Read more...

A few weeks ago, my buddy Wassim and I had the chance to present again on the topic of chatbots, with API.AI and Cloud Functions, at the DevFest Toulouse conference. Here’s the latest update to our slide deck: There’s also a video (in French) of the same content from Devoxx France, where I was showing how to build a conference chatbot: Chatbots, per se, are not really new, in the sense that we’ve been developing bots for things like IRC for a long time, but back in the day, it was simply some regular expression labor of love, rather than the natural language that we use today. Read more...

Last week, I had the pleasure to speak at the Jenkins Community Day conference, in Paris, organized by my friends from JFrog, provider of awesome tools for software management and distribution. I covered how to scale Jenkins with Kubernetes on Google Container Engine. For the impatient, here are the slides of the presentation I’ve given: But let’s step back a little. In this article, I’d like to share with you why you would want to run Jenkins in the cloud, as well as give you some pointers to interesting resources on the topic. Read more...