Whether you call it Cloud Development Environment, Developer Workspace Platform or Remote Ephemeral Workspaces, a new set of tools and services appeared in the last 10 year.
The idea is to define an environment through a container tool and manage it with all the needed security, user management, update management, templating tools and all the bells and whistles you can expect of a modern Software as a Service.

The use cases of these kind of services are numerous:
– shorter on-boarding time for new members of a project: newcomer will have all tools ready to work
– multiple development and tests environment: switch between versions and ecosystems easily
– leverage the power of cloud: share expensive resource like GPU instances

One of them is called Coder and has the advantage of being very versatile, open source and easy to deploy on a Kubernetes cluster.

Let’s discover how to deploy Coder in an OVHcloud Public Cloud project.

First step, create an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster following the dedicated documentation
Once you have your cluster, you can follow the guide to retrieve your configuration file then prepare your machine to use Helm.

From that point, you have a Managed Kubernetes Cluster, Helm and Kubectl configured and so you’re ready to go.

Before installing anything, it’s better to dedicate a namespace to your Coder adventure.

kubectl create namespace coder

Coder needs to use a database to store all its data. You have several options and you can of course use one of the Managed Databases.
To keep this article compact and easy to read, I will use another option and create a PostgreSQL database in the cluster itself.

helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
helm install coder-db bitnami/postgresql \
--namespace coder \
--set auth.username=<your user. I'll use coder for the rest of the article> \
--set auth.password=<your password, I'll use coder> \
--set auth.database=coder \
--set persistence.size=10Gi

To be able to setup properly your Coder installation, you need to create a Kubernetes secret with the URL of this database.

kubectl create secret generic coder-db-url \
-n coder \
--from-literal=url="postgres://coder:coder@coder-db-postgresql.coder.svc.cluster.local:5432/coder?sslmode=disable"

Next, create a file values.yaml that will define the configuration of the Coder deployment were are going to use.
To have a complete setup, please follow our guide on how to install and secure a Nginx Ingress with cert-manager

coder:
  # You can specify any environment variables you'd like to pass to Coder
  # here. Coder consumes environment variables listed in
  # `coder server --help`, and these environment variables are also passed
  # to the workspace provisioner (so you can consume them in your Terraform
  # templates for auth keys etc.).
  #
  # Please keep in mind that you should not set `CODER_HTTP_ADDRESS`,
  # `CODER_TLS_ENABLE`, `CODER_TLS_CERT_FILE` or `CODER_TLS_KEY_FILE` as
  # they are already set by the Helm chart and will cause conflicts.
  env:
    - name: CODER_PG_CONNECTION_URL
      valueFrom:
        secretKeyRef:
          # You'll need to create a secret called coder-db-url with your
          # Postgres connection URL like:
          # postgres://coder:password@postgres:5432/coder?sslmode=disable
          name: coder-db-url
          key: url

    # (Optional) For production deployments the access URL should be set.
    # If you're just trying Coder, access the dashboard via the service IP.
    - name: CODER_ACCESS_URL
      value: "https://coder.example.com"

  ingress:
    enable: true
    className: "nginx"
    host: <your domain url>
    wildcardHost: ""
    annotations:
      cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod
      nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/add-base-url: "true"
      ingress.kubernetes.io/force-ssl-redirect: "true"
      kubernetes.io/tls-acme: "true"
    tls:
      enable: true
      secretName: "coder-secret"
      wildcardSecretName: ""

This values.yaml file will then allow you to deploy the main piece of Coder.

helm install coder coder-v2/coder \
    --namespace coder \
    --values values.yaml \
    --version 2.14.3

From that point, you have a fully functional Coder deployment and you are ready to explore the capabilities of a cloud development environment solution.

Your next steps should a tour of the documentation and do not hesitate to join the Coder community.

Have a look at our previous blog posts:
– Enhance your applications with AI Endpoints
– How to use AI Endpoints and LangChain4j
– LLMs streaming with AI Endpoints and LangChain4j

In the world of generative AI with LLMs, LangChain is one of the most famous Framework used to simplify the LLM use with API call.

LangChain’s tools and APIs simplify the process of building LLM-driven applications like chat bots and virtual agents.

LangChain  is designed to be used with Python language and Javascript.

And, of course, we’ll use our AI Endpoints product to access to various LLM models 🤩.

ℹ️ All the code source used in the blog post is available on our GitHub repository: public-cloud-examples/tree/main/ai/ai-endpoints/python-langchain-chatbot ℹ️

Blocking chatbot

Let’s start by creating a simple chatbot with LangChain and AI Endpoints.

The first step is to get the necessary dependencies. To do this, create a requirements.txt file:

fastapi==0.110.0
openai==1.13.3
langchain-mistralai==0.1.7

And run the following command:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

At this step you are ready to develop your first chatbot:

import argparse

from langchain_mistralai import ChatMistralAI
from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate

## Set the OVHcloud AI Endpoints token to use models
_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN = os.environ.get('OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN') 
_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_NAME = os.environ.get('OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_NAME') 
_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_URL = os.environ.get('OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_URL') 

# Function in charge to call the LLM model.
# Question parameter is the user's question.
# The function print the LLM answer.
def chat_completion(question: str):
  # no need to use a token
  model = ChatMistralAI(model=_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_NAME, 
                        api_key=_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN,
                        endpoint=_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_URL, 
                        max_tokens=1500)

  prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages([
    ("system", "You are Nestor, a virtual assistant. Answer to the question."),
    ("human", "{question}"),
  ])

  chain = prompt | model

  response = chain.invoke(question)

  print(f"🤖: {response.content}")

# Main entrypoint
def main():
  # User input
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  parser.add_argument('--question', type=str, default="What is the meaning of life?")
  args = parser.parse_args()
  chat_completion(args.question)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

You can try your new assistant with the following command:

python3 chat-bot.py --question "What is OVHcloud?"

🤖: OVHcloud is a global cloud computing company that offers a variety of services such as virtual private servers, dedicated servers, 
storage solutions, and other web services. 
It was founded in France and has since expanded to become a leading provider of cloud infrastructure, with data centers located around the 
world. OVHcloud offers a range of options for businesses and individuals, including high-performance computing, big data, and machine learning solutions. 
It is known for its commitment to data security and privacy, 
and its infrastructure is designed to be flexible, scalable, and reliable.

Streaming chatbot

Now you have a chatbot, what do you think about adding the streaming feature? The streaming gives your chatbot the ability to display the information when it’s ready, and to not wait for the whole message to be processed on the server side.

To do this you can update the previous Python script as following:

import argparse
import time

from langchain_mistralai import ChatMistralAI
from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate

## Set the OVHcloud AI Endpoints token to use models
_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN = os.environ.get('OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN') 
_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_NAME = os.environ.get('OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_NAME') 
_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_URL = os.environ.get('OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_URL') 


# Function in charge to call the LLM model.
# Question parameter is the user's question.
# The function print the LLM answer.
def chat_completion(new_message: str):
  # no need to use a token
  model = ChatMistralAI(model=_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_NAME, 
                        api_key=_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN,
                        endpoint=_OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_URL, 
                        max_tokens=1500, 
                        streaming=True)

  prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages([
    ("system", "You are a Nestor, a virtual assistant. Answer to the question."),
    ("human", "{question}"),
  ])

  chain = prompt | model

  print("🤖: ")
  for r in chain.stream({"question", new_message}):
    print(r.content, end="", flush=True)
    time.sleep(0.150)

# Main entrypoint
def main():
  # User input
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  parser.add_argument('--question', type=str, default="What is the meaning of life?")
  args = parser.parse_args()
  chat_completion(args.question)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

ℹ️ Note on the environment variables : you can find values on the documentation tab of each model. ℹ️
For example with the model list on April 2025 :
– OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_NAME: Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3
– OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_MODEL_URL: https://mistral-7b-instruct-v0-3.endpoints.kepler.ai.cloud.ovh.net/api/openai_compat/v1

You can try your new assistant with the following command:

python3 chat-bot-streaming.py --question "What is OVHcloud?"

And that it!

Don’t hesitate to test our new product, AI Endpoints, and give us your feedback.

You have a dedicated Discord channel (#ai-endpoints) on our Discord server (https://discord.gg/ovhcloud), see you there!

As speakers and sponsor, we are going to tell you how this edition of Devoxx France went.

Few words about the conference:

• 3000+ attendees
• 240+ speakers
• 6 keynotes
• 200+ conferences
• 70+ sponsors

Devoxx France is the biggest French tech conference (and one of the major European tech conference). This year, it was the eleventh edition in Paris, “Palais des Congrès”.

The chosen theme was “steam punk” and pictures have been generated by the IA DALL-E 2 OpenIA! And it was just … amazing 🤩.

OVHcloud talks

A lot of talks were given by OVHcloud.

Our colleagues gave very good talks and OVHcloud is very proud of them!

Eléa Petton – What if AI was the solution to understand sign language?

📜 Elea’s slides
🎥 Elea’s recorded video on YouTube

In the field of Artificial Intelligence, we often talk about Machine Learning or Deep Learning, but in the end what do these terms mean and especially how can they help us in our daily life?

During this talk we will first try to understand the place of AI in the vast field of health. We will then show the importance of data and develop an AI app capable of detecting and interpreting sign language.

This talk will show how it is possible to process raw data quickly to adapt an AI algorithm using Apache Spark. We will also see how to use distributed image processing as a way to enrich its training data.

The second step will consist in training an object detection model to recognize the different signs of the ASL (American Sign Language) alphabet through a Jupyter notebook.

Training a model is good, using it is better! Developers will learn how to create an artificial intelligence app from the trained model for sign detection on images or video streams. Finally, we will see how to deploy this application with Docker to make it accessible. This application will allow anyone to understand sign language with detection and written transcription.

Aurélie Vache – Common tips & mistakes in Go – and how to solve them

📜 Aurélie’s slides
🎥 Aurélie’s recorded video on YouTube

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm … These tools may mean something to you, you may use them on a daily basis, but did you know that they were made in Go? Indeed, the Go language is a language that has been on the rise in recent years, used to make microservices, cross-compilation, by companies requiring high performance and resilience.

It is a practical language, easy to learn, typed and with a rich ecosystem.

And it’s true, creating an HTTP server or even a CLI application in Go only takes a few minutes. It’s perfect … or almost!

It is also easy to make mistakes in this language ;-).

We will see in this talk, under the background of ReX and experience, tips and common errors, their solutions and how to avoid them.

Stéphanie Moallic – What if you were building robots?

🎥 Stéphanie’s recorded video on YouTube

What if you were building robots?

Ever since I was little, I have been passionate about robots. Nono the robot from Ulysses, Johnny 5, R2-D2, the robot in “Laputa”, those described by Asimov, all these robots have always fascinated me and I have often wondered if I too will be able to build robots . In recent years, with the wide availability of programmable cards and microcontroller cards as well as the use of 3D printers, it is now easier to create mobile and programmable robots.

In this talk, I will introduce you to the different robots I have built and programmed over the years such as an Arduino-based mobile robot, a microbit board-based walking and dancing robot, and a board-based hexapod robot. Arduino Nano IoT programmed in Golang in its TinyGo version for microcontrollers. The idea is to scan some of the means available to us to create robots and give leads so that everyone can embark on this great adventure of creating robots.

David Aparicio – Security, where to start ? Install party 🎉

You probably know about Linux Install Parties? Then let’s do the same with Security, we will follow the DevSecOps approach of the US Department of Defense. For that, nothing could be easier, come with your computer, your open-source project and your tools (IDE, CI/CD).

After a few presentation slides, we will go step by step through the security of your application. If your application is dockerized, we will evoke the good practices of the ANSSI on this subject. We will see, through this workshop, how GitOps/CI/CD allow us and organizations to improve our posture towards security.

David Aparicio – Gosec, in the IDE or in the CI, how it avoids to find its PROD down/hacked?

Gosec is a tool that addresses security issues by scanning Go code (AST). In this lightning talk, we will introduce GoSec and explain how it can be used to improve the security of your modern applications that offers an advanced vulnerability detection and remediation solution.

We will cover key Gosec features, such as detection of DDOS or buffer overflows, SQL injections, low RSA key size, use of obsolete and vulnerable cryptographic algorithms, poor TLS settings. If you are a developer concerned about the security of your applications (like any normal, well-built dev), you should not miss this lightning talk on Gosec.

François Samin – Overview of concurrency management in several programming languages

🎥 François’s recorded video on YouTube

Choosing a language for a project is always an important moment. When objectively considering the numerous criteria, including syntax, ecosystem, maturity, etc., one is often overlooked but significantly impacts developer experience: concurrency management. In some languages, it is essential to understand how concurrency is implemented under the hood in order to avoid certain pitfalls and performance losses.

We will delve into the various implementations and uses of concurrency in Javascript, Golang, Rust, and Java to better understand the advantages and disadvantages of each. Sometimes supported natively by the language, sometimes provided by third-party libraries, concurrency implementations can be very different. We will cover concepts such as green threads, native threads, futures, promises, goroutines, work stealing, as well as asynchronous executors and developer experiences for each of these languages.

Olivier Beautier – Take the path of improvisation 🎭 to become a speaker 🎙️ who excites the crowds 🤩

Speaking in public is one of the most shared fears in the world, in the face of poverty, in the face of illness, in the face of death… (Nabla Léviste).

And it’s really a shame, because you have fascinating things to tell!

What makes the richness of our beloved “tech” conferences is largely the diversity of speakers. But it’s hard for many to take the leap, because you’ve probably never learned how to public speaking or build a compelling story.

In this workshop, we invite you to discover a selection, refined by us, of tools from theatrical improvisation, which will help you to manage your fear of speaking in public, and to give structured and exciting way to give talks.

Horacio Gonzalez – Kubernetes, dispassionate and for ultra beginners

🎥 Horacio’s recorded video on YouTube

Whether we like it or not, Kubernetes is part of our landscape today, adored by some and decried by many others. The reality is that Kubernetes is well established and will be present for a while, perhaps hidden under a layer of abstraction but the trend is still that it becomes the backbone of the Cloud Native ecosystem.

At this university, I propose you to start from scratch and discover together the fundamental concepts of Kubernetes: Pod, Service, Health checks, etc. During the 3 hours we will gradually enter more into the bowels of the beast to finish on these more advanced concepts such as the Operators. Each concept will of course be illustrated with concrete demonstrations. Being a developer myself, the angle of attack will be that of deployment and management of applications, all the operational part such as the establishment of a cluster will not be covered.

Behind the scene

Many members of OVHcloud were at the Devoxx France.

It was an opportunity to meet each others in real life!

The booth

All the team was involved in the booth setup and was present on the booth during the event .

The booth was amazing, thanks to Horacio for his wonderful drawings 🤩.

During three days we met at our booth a lot of different people: developers, SRE, UX designers, architects, students, startupers, speakers, sponsors, organizers… A very pleasant moment of share and discussions.

Being present on the booth is not restful … The first thing is that we get up early, the opening to the public being at 8:30 am, you have to be there before (around 7:45 every morning) to set up the booth (mainly take out the goodies 😉).

Three awesome days of interactions, demos, discussions and … few talks. Yes, it’s not a secret, when you are a sponsor you can’t attend all the talks :).

Between each conference (breaks), we saw a lot of people, like a wave, arriving at our stand. A wave of people pouring down on us looking for goodies but mostly with great questions about what exactly we do, what moving to the Cloud means,…

The atmosphere was cool and we make beautiful encounters both with potential users and partners.

Note from Thierry: I was the junior this time, and it felt good ☺️ Devoxx France is a conference I wanted to attend for 10+ years.
The intensity of discussions was a pleasant surprise: that’s the first time I have such deep architecture discussions, or even little support cases.
Huge thanks to my experimented team that helped me to have a wonderful first experience at Devoxx 💞

As speaker

How did David experience this Devoxx?

DevoxxFR2023 is a great event. I love the level of all talks, and also for the diversity & quality of the attendees. This year, I spent a lot of time in the Hands-on lab, the fact that they are not recorded, in very small groups, so the exchanges are rich, the workshop speakers are in proximity with the audience. Therefore they are extremely popular, because sometimes they are full, more than half an hour before the schedule. So it was a hunt for tickets (who mentioned black market 🤣).

How did Stéphanie experience this Devoxx?

As every time I go to Devoxx France, I always have a mixture of feelings: joy, fear of making a mistake, looking forward to discussing with people the subjects that interest me,… Always full of new things to discover but also topics to explore further. Many exchanges with people around. I didn’t go to talks because I’m always afraid of dropping out and I prefer to have discussions with people around.
It was also an opportunity for me to present a talk on a subject that fascinates me: robots and how to build and program them. The talk went well and people seemed interested and asked me a lot of questions during and after. It was really great.

How did Aurélie experience this Devoxx?

Devoxx France is not a conference like the others, at least that’s how I feel. Being a speaker at DevoxxFR is an honor, a chance, a great opportunity and also a lot of stress 😆 I always want to do well, and so I put a lot of pressure on myself for that 😅.
I wasn’t leading off before my talk, I knew that I exceeded 2 minutes during my rehearsals and that I passed in very last on Wednesday. But the talk went well, the participants took a lot of pictures (so they seemed to learn something) so I’m happy 🙂.

And the little bonus track, I had the honor of being Stephanie’s assistant for her talk on robots. The electronics and I have been 12, so I tried to do my best to prepare what I could so that she could concentrate as much as possible on her talk. Well, I made a few blunders, of course 🤣, and Stéphanie was awesome! Well done ma’am 👏

How did François experience this Devoxx?

I hadn’t been to Devoxx since the COVID crisis. I could see that the event had grown considerably since 2019, but without losing its essence: high-quality keynotes, conferences, labs, and a lot of kindness in the exchanges with all participants.

Can’t wait for next year!

Next?

A big thanks to the whole organization team, you did an amazing work for this super edition 💪.

Can’t wait to return next year!

As speakers and sponsor, we are going to tell you how this edition of DevFest Nantes went.

Few words about the conference:
– 3700+ attendees
– 90+ speakers
– 2 keynotes
– 70+ conferences
– 42 sponsors

It was the 10th anniversary edition 🎉. The theme of this edition was Jules Vernes!

Steam punk atmosphere for all booths 🤩.

OVHcloud talks

Two talks were given by Alexandre and Olivier.

Alexandre Vilain – Temporal.io – My workflows are cloud ready

📽 Replay

Who has never found themselves developing an in-house solution to orchestrate complex business workflows? You start by adding a database to manage the state, then you add queueing to pass the data through your services and you end up developing complex retry functions that never handle all the special cases. Even before integrating their business logic, developers have to solve a number of workflow orchestration problems that make development heavy and sometimes complex to maintain. Can we stop reinventing the wheel?

Temporal.io is a workflow engine, derived from Cadence, initially developed at Uber and used in production at Netflix, Stripe or Snapchat. The paradigms brought by temporal.io are simple and allow teams to reduce their “glue-code” to focus on their business code. Write your workflows in the language of your choice thanks to its SDKs available in several languages: JAVA, Go, Typescript, PHP (and soon Python, Ruby, Rust & .NET), the temporal platform takes care of the rest.

The objective is to present you temporal.io: how it works, its use cases and its interest for development teams.

Olivier Beautier – The IT’s hero’s journey

📽 Replay

Did you know you were a storyteller?

As proof, you are able to predict the next scene in a movie or a series, or even guess who the killer is! This is completely normal, because from our youngest age, we have been rocked by stories, tales, legends, we have unconsciously integrated their mechanics.

In this original and interactive talk, we will use the concept of the Hero’s Journey to tell a story, directly inspired by your experiences, and show you that you have everything you need to tell great stories yourself.

Behind the scene

Many members of OVHcloud were at the DevFest Nantes.

It was an opportunity to meet each others in real life!

The booth

All the team was involved in the booth setup and was present on the booth during the event 👏.

The booth was amazing, thanks to @horacio for his wonderful drawings 🤩.

As a DevRel

As always being sponsor at this kind of event is a lot of work. The day start early to build the booth and to be present at the opening on the booth.

We met a lot of people with exciting discussions. We organized a contest based on the Gabaky game.

Many players came to try to win the Switch and at the end, after a memorable final, one of them won the Switch!

As a speaker (and coach)

Being a speaker at a conference is already a very strong experience, but when it comes to the biggest French conference and the talk takes place in the largest room, it’s indescribable.

In this talk where I learn to tell stories, I tell my own story and my fight against stage fright.

I manage to emerge victorious from this fight thanks to the tools of storytelling, and I transmit at the end a model of narrative structure adapted to the world of conferences.

I also had the great pleasure of being able to coach Alexandre for his talk “Temporal.io – My workflows are cloud ready”, from the design of the talk, through rehearsals in the middle of the crowd, to the final performance.

Alexandre’s talk was a success, I’m very proud of it and I can’t wait to see his next talks.

Next?

A big thanks to the whole organization team, you did an amazing work for this super edition 💪.

Can’t wait to return next year!

As speakers, we are going to tell you how this edition of the first physical edition of Volcamp went.

Few words about the conference:
– 450+ attendees
– 3 keynotes
– 60+ conferences
– 30 sponsors

OVHcloud talks

Aurélie Vache – Keynote – (What if we learned to) Learn and share differently

Abstract:

We are currently about 7.9 billion people on Earth and we are all different but we have to fit into boxes, follow the same program, and we all have to learn in the same way.

What if I told you that it is possible to learn and share differently, to appeal to your imagination and your creativity and that it is beneficial for everyone?

In this talk, I tell a story, I tell you my story, how I went from a person who had lost his passions to the creation of sketchnotes, videos, talks that are out of the ordinary and illustrated books. We will see that sharing differently, that changing things is not easy but that it is important and that it is possible with a few tips, that other people have done it and that now it’s up to you :-).

And finally, we will see that we each have superpowers to use wisely.

Olivier Beautier – The IT’s hero’s journey

Abstract:

Did you know you were a storyteller?

As proof, you are able to predict the next scene in a movie or a series, or even guess who the killer is! This is completely normal, because from our youngest age, we have been rocked by stories, tales, legends, we have unconsciously integrated their mechanics.

In this original and interactive talk, we will use the concept of the Hero’s Journey to tell a story, directly inspired by your experiences, and show you that you have everything you need to tell great stories yourself.

David Apparicio – Security at the early stage of the project

Abstract:

In 2020, the number of cyberattacks has exploded worldwide. According to a recent report from the French National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI), ANSSI operations in 2020 have increased fourfold, compared to the previous year.

The Covid-19 pandemic has multiplied the opportunities for destabilization (cyber attacks) in several sectors, including health: Rouen University Hospital, Narbonne, Montpellier, Dax, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Saint-Gaudens … The list of hospitals is getting longer.

Moreover, since the RGPD came into force, the protection of personal data as well as the security ‘by design’ become central subjects in our projects.

I will present the techniques used and I will also talk about the management’s awareness of these important aspects. Indeed, even being in the internal network of a datacenter, we are not safe from an intrusion. The 0 risk does not exist. ~ Security By Design 101

Thierry Chantier – IoT apéro

Abstract:

After months of not seeing each other, we can finally get together with friends to share a fun and friendly time. And if we can learn and understand things that we had to struggle to understand alone, it’s a huge bonus.

This is exactly what we propose to you through the Apéro IoT whose objective will be to have fun and to have the keys to launch our first IoT project. This cocktail party will be interactive, participative (it is not impossible that we invite people to come on stage)… and also realistic (no tricks)!

Our joyful makers will be Philippe, Thierry, Louis, and you, our dear public. We will be gathered around a drink, to take a look at this complex and controversial subject.

We will propose you a hardware, SDK and languages tour so that everyone can return home with wishes and ideas of projects to test or realize.

Eléa Petton & Stéphane Philippart – How about helping Captain Nemo classify sea monsters?

Abstract:

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, … We hear these terms every day, but what do they actually mean and how do we develop applications based on these concepts?

During this talk we will introduce you to the world of data and how easy it is, with the right tools, to embark on the adventure of data analysis and classification.

This talk will help developers discover how to develop learning applications and show that you don’t have to be a data scientist to develop your own machine learning or deep learning algorithm. We will show you how to create your first notebook with JupyterLab to help you take your first steps. This will be an opportunity for you to dive into the discovery of the underwater world by developing a model to identify and classify the sounds of marine mammals.

Finally, we will see together, with Streamlit, how to develop an application using this model.

Behind the scene

Many members of the team were accepted as a speaker. It was an opportunity to meet each others in real life in the center of the France!

As an attendee

Thierry:

Being present at this kind of event also means having the opportunity to see talks and have passionate discussions.

On the talks side, on top of my wonderful colleagues talks, I had the opportunity to see Pierre-Marie Aubineau who was sharing his personal experience as a indie game developer.

He explained how complex this kind of adventure is, the domains to master goes far beyond coding skills.

One of those domain is the marketing side of a game launch: his views on how he failed that point were really thoughtful.

His conclusion was full of reading advices and pointer to resources : a complete tour of what you need to start a game project.

Another important thing during that kind of event is the opportunity to have unplanned discussions with people full of passion.

For example, Friday morning on my way to the first coffe of the day, I stumbled upon Paul Pinault and we started a long, passionate and intense discussion about IoT.

He shared his vision of this domain and it was an opportunity for me to confront my ideas on the subject with someone experienced. Thanks a lot Paul!

As a DevRel

A DevRel in a conference is multi-tasking!

Attendee, speaker, keynoter, … and streamer! This Volcamp was the occasion for the team to stream a live Twitch from the conference.

You can find the replay here.

And, during a conference many things can happens … for example: speak, discuss impromptu, for more than an hour, accessibility, neuro atypia, associations of women in tech and public speaking.

As a Keynoter

Aurélie:

In December 2021, I received a private message on Twitter, from an organizer, telling me that the Volcamp conference was looking for a speaker for the opening keynote and if that told me to be part of the adventure?

I admit that I have read this message several times.

Presenting the opening keynote of a conference, of their first edition in physics, is a lot of stress and pressure.

Creating this keynote was: 3 and a half months of creation, modifications, big big big doubts, revisions, the D-Day.

I was very stressed, but I really enjoyed doing this keynote, talking about a subject that has fascinated me for years, passing on the messages I wanted to convey while naturally sticking to the values ​​of the conference.

It was a HUGE challenge for me. I put a lot of pressure on myself, a keynote is not nothing.

I’m very happy with all the feedback I’ve had, from people who spontaneously told me that it spoke to them, touched them, moved them, made them think and/or that it gave them the boost to do what they wanted to do, try, dare, and that’s really great. The word that came up the most is “inspiring” and that’s really the purpose of a keynote so I’m more than happy.

I was exhausted but super happy with these 2 days full of emotions, encounters, sharing, discussions…

Thank you again to the organizers for trusting me and to my pro / community and personal entourage for always being kind to me ❤️

Because we have to say it again and again, it is important to be well surrounded in order to push back your limits and constantly move forward.

In short, being a keynoter, it’s a great experience that I’m not ready to forget! 🙂

As a speaker

Lot of talks given par someone from OVHcloud. Each experience is different but it’s always the same feeling: sharing with other people is so wonderful.

The organization was top, as in many conferences and the location very pleasant.

As a wooden C letter

Everything was going well until a certain Aurélie attacked me just before the start of the keynote, a wonderful “icebreaker”…

Accordingly, we suggest that next year the event be renamed “Volamp”.

Next?

Can’t wait to return next year! … With all the team? 😉