Anaconda is a popular platform for data science, machine learning, and AI. It provides trusted repositories of Python and R packages and has over 35 million users worldwide. Rob Futrick is the CTO at Anaconda, and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the concept of an OS for AI, and more. This

Vercel provides a cloud platform to rapidly deploy web projects, and they develop the highly successful Next.js framework. The company recently made headlines when they announced v0 which is a generative AI tool to create React code from text prompts. The generated code uses open-source tools like Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. Lee Robinson is the

Algolia is a platform that provides search as a service. The company was founded in 2012, was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2014 class, and has become highly popular for integrating modern search functionality into web-facing services. Sean Mullaney is the CTO of Algolia and has worked at Google X, Stripe, and Zolando. He joins

Jodie Burchell is the Data Science Developer Advocate at JetBrains, which makes integrated development environments or, IDEs, for many major languages. After observing the rapid growth of the AI coding assistant landscape, the company recently announced integration of an AI assistant into their IDEs. Jodie joins the show today to talk about why the company

This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Ankur Mehrotra who is the Director and GM of Amazon SageMaker. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager

An embedding is a concept in machine learning that refers to a particular representation of text, images, audio, or other information. Embeddings are designed to make data consumable by ML models. However, storing embeddings presents a challenge to traditional databases. Vector databases are designed to solve this problem. Pinecone has developed one of the most

Vespa is a fully featured search engine and vector database, and it has integrated ML model inference. The project open sourced in 2017, and since then has grown to become a prominent platform for applying AI to big data sets at serving time. Vespa began as a project to solve Yahoo’s use cases in search,

GitHub Copilot is an AI tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist software developers by autocompleting code. Copilot kicked off a revolution in software engineering, and AI assistants are now considered essential tools to many developers. Joseph Katsioloudes is a cyber security specialist and works at the GitHub Security Lab. He joins the show

Machine learning model research requires running expensive, long-running experiments where even a slight mis-calibration can cost millions of dollars in underutilized compute resources. Once trained, model deployment, production monitoring, and observability requirements all present unique operational challenges. Chris Van Pelt is the Chief Information Officer of Weights and Biases, which is the industry standard in

Hugging Face was founded in 2016 and has grown to become one of the most prominent ML platforms. It’s commonly used to develop and disseminate state-of-the-art ML models and is a central hub for researchers and developers. Sayak Paul is a Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face and a Google Developer Expert. He joins the

Cloud-based software development platforms such as GitHub Codespaces continue to grow in popularity. These platforms are attractive to enterprise organizations because they can be managed centrally with security controls. However, many, if not most, developers prefer a local IDE. Daytona is aiming to bridge that gap. It’s a layer between a local IDE and a

Knowledge graphs are an intuitive way to define relationships between objects, events, situations, and concepts. Their ability to encode this information makes them an attractive database paradigm. Hume is a graph-based analysis solution developed by GraphAware. It represents data as a network of interconnected entities and provides analysis capabilities to extract insights from the data.

Speech technology has been around for a long time, but in the last 12 months it’s undergone a quantum leap. New speech synthesis models are able to produce speech that’s often indistinguishable from real speech. I’m sure many listeners have heard deep fakes where computer speech perfectly mimics the voice of famous actors or public

If you’re a developer, there’s a good chance you’ve experimented with coding assistants like GitHub Copilot. Many developers have even fully integrated these tools into their workflows. One way these tools accelerate development is by autocompleting entire blocks of code. The AI achieves this by having awareness of the surrounding code. It understands context. However,

When StackOverflow launched in 2008 it lowered the barrier to writing complex software. It solved the longstanding problem of accessing accurate and reliable programming knowledge by offering a collaborative space where programmers could ask questions, share insights, and receive high-quality answers from a community of experts. Generative AI has impacted the way programmers want to

AI-assisted software delivery refers to the utilization of artificial intelligence to assist, enhance, or automate various phases of the software development lifecycle. AI can be used in numerous aspects of software development, from requirements gathering to code generation to testing and monitoring. The overarching aim is to streamline software delivery, reduce errors and, ideally, reduce

Generative pre-trained transformer models, or GPT models, have countless applications and are being rapidly deployed across a wide range of domains. However, using GPT models without appropriate safeguards can lead to leakage of sensitive data. This concern underscores the critical need for privacy and data protection. Skyflow LLM Privacy Vault prevents sensitive data from reaching

There are many types of early stage funding available from friends and family to seed to series A.  Some firms invest across a wide set of technologies and seek only to provide capital. Others are in it for the long haul – they focus on specific areas of technology and develop both long term relationships

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAI. It is part of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) family of models, which are designed to generate human-like text based on input prompts. ChatGPT is specifically trained to carry out conversational tasks, such as answering questions, completing sentences, and engaging in dialogue. It has been

Today, we spoke with Daniel Situnayake of Edge Impulse. We discussed AI, machine learning, edge devices, TinyML and AI tool chain.             Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

The default configuration in most databases is meant for broad compatibility rather than performance. Database tuning is a process in which the configurations of a database are modified to achieve optimal performance. Databases have hundreds of configuration knobs that control various factors, such as the amount of memory to use for caches or how often

Originally published on January 1, 2022. Charlie Gerard is an incredibly productive developer.  In addition to being the author of Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript, her website charliegerard.dev has a long list of really interesting side projects exploring the intersection of human computer interaction, computer vision, interactivity, and art.  In this episode we touch on

At Lyft, Ketan Umare worked on Flyte, an orchestration system for machine learning. Flyte provides reliability and APIs for machine learning workflows, and is used at companies outside of Lyft such as Spotify. Since leaving Lyft, Ketan founded Union.ai, a company focused on productionizing Flyte as a service. He joins the show to talk about

Historically, search engines made money by showing sponsored ads alongside organic results. As the idiom goes, if you’re not paying for something, you are the product. Neeva is a new take on search engines. When you search at neeva.com, you get the type of result you’d expect from a search engine minus any advertising. In