Are you using AI tools? How are you using them? And what are you building without AI?

In this episode of SELECT STAR, I sat down with Spring teammate and conference organizer Glen Renfro to explore the different ways we’re putting AI to work.

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About the hosts:

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He was the lead developer for Spring Data JPA, Spring Web Services, and a committer to multiple Spring projects. He is the author of Learning Spring Boot (2nd and 3rd editions) and 12 Rules for Pro Coders. He co-founded the Nashville Java User Group and hasn’t met a query (yet) that he can’t speed up.

Felipe Gutierrez worked as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate and consultant for over 25 years before joining Cockroach Labs. He has served as a technical instructor teaching Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ, and Cloud Foundry. He is the author of Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow.

About Cockroach Labs:

Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, delivering resilient and scalable solutions for mission-critical workloads. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is redefining data management with its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

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