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DevOps practices are shared via community, and community manifests at conferences. Unfortunately, conferences are not possible right now due to COVID-19. The world has turned to virtual conferences. All Day DevOps is a 24 hour conference sharing learnings and software strategies around DevOps, starting November 12th. Derek Weeks and Mark Miller are organizers of the

Static analysis allows for the discovery of issues in a codebase without compiling. There have been many generations of static analysis tools. A newer static analysis tool is DeepSource, which automates code reviews, identifies bug risks, and generates pull requests to fix them. Jai Pradeesh and Sanket Saurav are founders of DeepSource, and join the

Data science requires data sets to be cataloged and indexed. The data sets are versioned and might be in CSV files in S3, a database, or another data storage system. Splitgraph allows the user to query this data catalog like it is a Postgres database, routing queries to any data set across your catalog. Artjoms

Sendbird is a company that makes chat, voice, and video APIs for developers. The biggest company in this category is arguably Twilio, but Sendbird works at a higher level of abstraction, with an emphasis on developer experience and visual components. John Kim is the CEO of Sendbird and he joins the show to discuss the

Newer machine learning tooling is often focused on streamlining the workflows and developer experience. One such tool is BentoML. BentoML is a workflow that allows data scientists and developers to ship models more effectively. Chaoyu Yang is the creator of BentoML and he joins the show to talk about why he created Bento and the

Data labeling is a major bottleneck in training and deploying machine learning and especially NLP. But new tools for training models with humans in the loop can drastically reduce how much data is required. Humanloop is a platform for annotating text and training NLP models with much less labelled data. Raza Habib, founder of Humanloop,

A customer data platform such as Segment allows developers to build analytics and workflows around customer data such as purchases, clicks, and other interactions. These customer data platforms (CDP) are often tightly coupled to an underlying data warehouse technology. Hightouch is a platform that provides an unbundled CDP–a platform that sits on top of your

Fivetran is a company that builds data integration infrastructure. If your company is performing ELT or ETL jobs to move data from one place to another, Fivetran can help with that movement from source to destination. Once the data is moved into a data warehouse, a tool called DBT (data build tool) can be used

Staff engineer is a job title that suggests the engineer has deep expertise, and considerable experience. More and more companies are adopting a “staff engineer track” where an engineer can work to become a staff engineer. What is the role of staff engineer? Is it a management role or an individual contributor? What are the

The Salesforce Ecosystem has thousands of developers, designers, product people, and entrepreneurs engaging with each other. Salesforce exposes APIs and SDKs that allow people to build infrastructure on top of the Salesforce platform. In a previous episode, we explored how the ecosystem works as a whole. In today’s show, Chuck Liddell joins the show to