Matt Ingenthron is a VP of Software Engineering at Couchbase a software development background and experience with high-scale, high performance system design. He has deep expertise in building, scaling, and operating global-scale web deployments across many platforms. He has been a contributor to the memcached project and a core developer on Couchbase developing much of the early clustering platform interfaces. Matt's teams are currently building all of the SDKs/Connectors for Couchbase Capella and Couchbase Server, Cloud Native integration with Kubernetes and OpenShift, Developer Experience with frameworks and IDE plugins, and some of the new services on Couchbase Capella, Couchbase's DBaaS.

Presentations

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LLMs with Your Data in Your Applications

You need your own data to be useful with AI and large language models (LLMs). How do you go about that? There has been a lot of focus on making applications intelligent using the power of AI with the help of (LLMs). We will cover how to add intelligence to existing applications with an overview of different techniques starting from prompt engineering, using vector stores to improve the results, and building intelligent agents to solve a problem.

You will learn about the techniques using open-source frameworks to build LLM-powered applications like LangChain & LlamaIndex.

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Tyrannical 9s solved with OpenTracing, your Apps and Couchbase

On a distributed system, small violations of service level they can multiply and stack up, leading to a declining user experience as services are broken into smaller and smaller pieces.  To keep service levels high, how does one find the cause?  OpenTracing!  This talk will intro OpenTracing and how Couchbase integrated OpenTracing into the system to allow observability with Tracers such as Jaegar, LightStep, DataDog, etc.

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