Giselle van Dongen

Giselle van Dongen

Giselle van Dongen

Restate

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Bio

Giselle is a Developer Advocate and Engineer at Restate. She works on integrations between Restate and the AI ecosystem and helps its users with understanding how Restate simplifies the development of durable agents and backends. Before that, she worked in the field of data science, big data analytics, and stream processing, and obtained a PhD on this topic at Ghent University.

Session (1)

Day 41:55pm-2:15pmMain Stage
🎵 Every step you take, every call you make - the reliable agent stack

Giselle van Dongen is a Developer Advocate at Restate who has spent the past year making the case that durable execution is the simplest path to resilient distributed systems and AI agents — delivering this message at Spring I/O, JCON, and Jfokus, and authoring multiple blog posts on fault-tolerant agentic workflows. Attending her session is a practical shortcut for engineers trying to understand how durable execution concretely changes the way you build and version long-running services and agents.

Recent talks (3)

The simplest way to build resilient applications by Giselle van Dongen @ Spring I/O 2025Spring I/O 2025 · May 2025The Simplest Way to Build Resilient Applications | Giselle van Dongen (EN)JCON Europe 2025 · May 2025The simplest way to build resilient applications by Giselle van DongenJfokus 2025 · Feb 2025

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Recent writing (5)

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