Kevin Dubois

Senior Principal Developer Advocate at IBM. Content and opinions are my own.

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Getting started with Java and AI

I’m working on a new series of tutorials to help Java developers understand how they can work with AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-e, Deepseek, Granite, Llama3, and pretty much any other model out there. The stack of choice is LangChain4j and Quarkus, which are in my opinion the easiest tools to work […]

January 30, 2025
Cloud Native

Angry Demo Gods at Devoxx Belgium – A Retrospective

If you’re in the business of presenting and demoing technology, you’ll know that there is such a thing as “Demo Gods” who hold your fate in their hands and their sole purpose in life is to throw bugs and issues at you when you’re doing live demos on stage. I had the opportunity to speak […]

October 9, 2023
Cloud Native

Build Java Container Images in seconds using Quarkus CLI

Here’s a quick 7 minute video I threw together that shows you how to use the Quarkus CLI to build images using Podman / Docker and Jib and runs the container using Podman Desktop. TL;DR If you just want to try it out, just run this: quarkus image build As a Java developer, getting started […]

April 25, 2023