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Applause to Bytewax our gold sponsor! 👏👏👏
For data streaming essentials like statefulness, recovery, scalability, connectors, and more, turn to Bytewax. It's an OSS framework and...


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...


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!
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!
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?
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.
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?
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
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!
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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...
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)
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
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
RJ Nowling is a developer advocate at Memphis.dev and an associate professor of Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering....
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