Sessions

Building Context-Aware Applications with Spring, Vector Searches, and Redis [Workshop]

Brian Sam-Bodden - Redis / Ricardo Ferreira - Redis

In this workshop, you will learn how to design and develop applications that make use of vector databases to handle semantic searches. You will learn how to prepare the dataset for storage, how to process JSON documents and generate embeddings, how to index them into Redis, and how to implement searches and aggregations on top of it. You must be comfortable with Java and have a basic understanding of Redis.

This is an interactive workshop. We will be learning while iterating over real challenges. Don’t forget your laptop!

PREREQUISITES

• Basic knowledge of Java
• Docker for running Redis Open Source 8 (which includes Redis Query Engine and Probabilistic Data Structures)
• An Ollama installation for running LLMs locally (or OpenAI API key)
• A Bluesky account for testing the bot
• Java 21 or higher
• Maven or Gradle for dependency management