Topic

LLMs, PDFs, and Load Balancers: A Love Story
Date: May 8, 2025, 6 p.m.

Join me for a whirlwind tour of building real apps with Large Language Models, where the PDFs are endless, the prompts are moody, and the alerts come at 2AM.

We’ll cover:

  • Semantic search with KNN, Lucene, and TF-IDF (because one search method is never enough)

  • Parsing PDFs at scale without crying (much)

  • Prompt engineering with Semantic Kernel (AI therapy sessions included)

  • Web apps behind load balancers (hello, uptime!)

  • Datadog alerts when things catch fire (they will)

Come for the LLMs, stay for the tech glue and mild existential dread.