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Please, welcome Rockset, our Silver Sponsor!

Aug 22, 20231 min read

Please, welcome Rockset, our Silver Sponsor!

Rockset, the Real-time Analytics Database Built for the Cloud, delivers fast analytics on real-time data with surprising efficiency....

We're happy to announce that Unison Computing is our Sponsor #bythebay!

Anastasia Khomyakova

Aug 14, 20231 min read

We're happy to announce that Unison Computing is our Sponsor #bythebay!

Unison Computing is a public benefit corp, on a mission to advance what's possible with software and make software creation simpler and...

We're thrilled to announce our Gold sponsor - Signify Technology!

Anastasia Khomyakova

Aug 10, 20231 min read

We're thrilled to announce our Gold sponsor - Signify Technology!

Welcome to Signify Technology, a global staffing agency committed to accelerating ambitions and connecting diverse and innovative talent...

Leah McGuire: LLMs, what are they good for?

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...

Jeff Xu: Harnessing the Power of Dual Query Engines.

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...

Dean Wampler: Open Source Science vs. Open Source Software: What's Different? What's the Same?

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...

Open-Source Science: The New Frontier of Discovery

Anastasia Khomyakova

Jul 13, 20233 min read

Open-Source Science: The New Frontier of Discovery

Hello, wizards of code and architects of innovation! Have you ever wondered if there's a parallel universe where software developers are...

The second wave of our stellar speakers!

Anastasia Khomyakova

Jul 11, 20231 min read

The second wave of our stellar speakers!

Engaging presentations await your discovery on our website. Can you feel the heat? Dive in now: https://www.scale.bythebay.io/speakers

Stewart Stewart: Puzzles and Problem Solving with Scala Tooling

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...

Julien Le Dem: Ten years of building open source standards: From Parquet to Arrow to OpenLineage

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...

Lei Gao: Harnessing the Power of Dual Query Engines.

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...

Ofer Mendelevitch: Why do LLMs hallucinate?

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...

Paul Chiusano: Typed and compositional microservices in Unison

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...

Shadaj Laddad: Hydro: A Stack for Faster Streaming Applications

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...

Ryan Orendorff: Building private and secure applications...

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...

Avi Press: Why Haskell is a Terrible Choice for Startups (And Why We Picked It Anyway)

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...

Bassem Yacoube: Using LangChain and LlamaIndex to customize LLMs on structured and unstructured data

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...

RJ Nowling: Streaming Feature Extraction for a ML Pipeline using Memphis.dev and Bytewax

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....

Kerim Satirli: Gaming at Scale: What we learned from building our own multiplayer environment

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...

Pete Hunt:Your Pipeline as a Function:applying functional programming principles to data engineering

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...