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Anastasia Khomyakova
Aug 31, 20231 min read
Justin Kaeser: Taming the Beast - Better Bazel in IntelliJ.
Like this conference, over time Justin Kaeser has moved from Scala to Scale. Previously focusing on build tool support in the IntelliJ...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Aug 10, 20232 min read
Leah McGuire: LLMs, what are they good for?
Leah has spent the last two decades working on information representation, processing, and modeling. She started her career as a...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 24, 20231 min read
Jeff Xu: Harnessing the Power of Dual Query Engines.
Jeff Xu is an accomplished veteran engineer specializing in enterprise big data software. With a passion for cutting-edge technologies...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 21, 20231 min read
Dean Wampler: Open Source Science vs. Open Source Software: What's Different? What's the Same?
Dean Wampler (Mastodon: @deanwampler) is an expert in AI/ML systems. He is the Engineering Directory for watsonx Platform Engineering at...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20232 min read
Stewart Stewart: Puzzles and Problem Solving with Scala Tooling
Stewart Stewart is a puzzle enthusiast, software engineer, hobby collector, bookworm, and wanderer with a love for intellectual...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Julien Le Dem: Ten years of building open source standards: From Parquet to Arrow to OpenLineage
Julien Le Dem is the Chief Architect of Astronomer and Co-Founder of Datakin. He co-created Apache Parquet and is involved in several...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Lei Gao: Harnessing the Power of Dual Query Engines.
Lei Gao is a seasoned Engineering Leader with a strong background in Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Ofer Mendelevitch: Why do LLMs hallucinate?
Ofer Mendelevitch is a data scientist and machine learning engineer. He holds a B.Sc. in computer science from Technion and M.Sc. in EE...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Paul Chiusano: Typed and compositional microservices in Unison
Paul Chiusano is co-creator of the Unison language and coauthor of Functional Programming in Scala. Typed and compositional microservices...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Shadaj Laddad: Hydro: A Stack for Faster Streaming Applications
Shadaj Laddad is a second-year PhD student co-advised by Alvin Cheung and Joe Hellerstein in the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley, where...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Ryan Orendorff: Building private and secure applications...
Ryan Orendorff is a research engineer designing a compiler for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to make encrypted data processing...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Avi Press: Why Haskell is a Terrible Choice for Startups (And Why We Picked It Anyway)
Avi Press is a developer tool author, functional programming language enthusiast, and founder/CEO of Scarf. Avi loves thinking about and...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20232 min read
Bassem Yacoube: Using LangChain and LlamaIndex to customize LLMs on structured and unstructured data
Bassem Yacoube is a Lead AI/ML Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience in the technology field (currently at OctoML.AI). He...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
RJ Nowling: Streaming Feature Extraction for a ML Pipeline using Memphis.dev and Bytewax
RJ Nowling is a developer advocate at Memphis.dev and an associate professor of Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering....
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Kerim Satirli: Gaming at Scale: What we learned from building our own multiplayer environment
Kerim Satirli is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, where he coaches operators and developers on sustainable infrastructure and...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Pete Hunt:Your Pipeline as a Function:applying functional programming principles to data engineering
Pete Hunt is CEO at Elementl, Inc. Previously: cofounder of the React.js project at Facebook, cofounder and CEO of Smyte (sold to...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20231 min read
Tikhon Jelvis: Better Code Design with Types and Concepts
Tikhon Jelvis is a software engineer who specializes in bringing ideas from programming languages and functional programming to machine...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20232 min read
Jonas Mueller: Keys to Data-Centric AI: Asking AI to Improve its own Dataset
Jonas Mueller is Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Cleanlab, a company providing data-centric AI software to improve datasets via...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 11, 20232 min read
Sherin Thomas: Recipe for Building a Discoverable and Governed Data Platform.
Sherin Thomas is a Software Engineer with over 12 years of experience at companies like Google, Twitter, Lyft, Netflix, Chime. She works...
Anastasia Khomyakova
Jul 3, 20232 min read
Dr. Ivan Perez: Open Source in Space: Challenges Developing and Adopting Open Source Tools for Aeros
Dr. Ivan Perez is a senior research scientist at KBR @ NASA Ames Research Center, and has been a member of the NASA Formal Methods Group...
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