Scott is the CEO and co-founder of Chatterbug, based in San Franciso and Berlin. Although Scott currently spends most of his time on Chatterbug, he is best known as former CIO and co-founder of GitHub. Scott is also the author of Pro Git. We took the … Read more
How to break into developer relations
Most people think that developer relations (DevRel) means your job title is either Developer Advocate or Developer Evangelist. Is this the case or is there anything more? At Codemotion Amsterdam in 2019 we assembled a panel of developer relations … Read more
Cloud Native and the next 20 years of application development
Cloud Native is the modern architecture for the next 20 years of application development. Open Source technologies combined with cloud computing have defined a new platform allowing developers to rapidly build and operate high scale … Read more
Controlling drones with Javascript
We're pretty used to drones flying around us by now thanks to the ubiquity of IoT. Until now most of these drones were still controlled by a human operator. But what if we could control them solely using our code? At Codemotion Amsterdam in 2019, … Read more
What can machine learning engineers learn from DevOps?
DevOps is an IT mindset that encourages communication, collaboration, integration and automation among software developers and IT operations in order to improve the speed and quality of delivering software. Its tasks involve standardizing development … Read more
The benefits of lazy engineering for developers
It’s okay to be lazy! Laziness is your mind telling you that something might be overly complicated or difficult. This feeling can be taken advantage of to help you grow as a developer! Engineering problems often have infinite solutions, and in this … Read more
The Monte Carlo simulation and how to avoid the trap of averages in software development time estimates
The next piece of software is to be developed by 2 teams and they now have to answer how long it’s going to take. Team A says 5-8 months and Team B 6-9 months. But the department head is under pressure to deliver a date, so he takes 7 months as the … Read more
Conversation-Driven Development (CDD) with Rasa
Alan is the co-founder and CTO of Rasa. Rasa builds the standard infrastructure layer for AI, providing the infrastructure and tools necessary for high-performing, resilient, proprietary contextual assistants that work. With Rasa, all developers can … Read more
Conversational AI made easier
Most conversational AI applications today are PoCs or pilot projects. They're often rule-based assistants that handle simple FAQs. Mady Mantha, senior technical evangelist at Rasa spoke at our recent deep learning conference about the key elements … Read more
The benefits of TensorFlow to machine learning developers
To program great apps, Software Developers need not only a good programming language, but also great libraries and tooling. For ML Researchers and Engineers, the situation is no different. At our recent deep learning conference, Luiz GUStavo … Read more
A scientific perspective on the COVID-19 virus
At our recent Codemotion conference, we assembled a panel of experts to look at the history and evolution of the COVID-19 virus as well as the challenges and gains so far. The panel was moderated by Dr Massimo Ciccozzi, Head of the Research Unit in … Read more
NLP Techniques and Deep Learning
Elena Gagliardoni is a Deep Learning Scientist (NLP) at HARMAN International and part of the Italian team of the Samsung project Bixby. Bixby is Samsung’s virtual assistant that supports touch, tap, and voice commands in everything from mobile phones … Read more
Machine learning and health care: making it make a difference
Medicine and healthcare is probably the single-most defining topic of today. With COVID19, the best healthcare institutions have been exposed to the dangers of an invisible enemy that has played havoc in our day-to-day lives. But healthcare, sadly, … Read more
The challenges and the real impact of machine learning communities in Europe during COVID-19?
Community is a critical part of building connections, knowledge, and opportunities around technology. This is especially true in the machine learning/deep learning space where a mix of developers, scientists, hackers, and enthusiasts connect. At our … Read more
Can AI transform the world of banking and finance?
Historically, the banking sector has been a kind of ocean liner that has struggled to change direction, clinging to legacy technology and a mindset from earlier times. In terms of technological innovation, banks have been overtaken by the … Read more
AI art and design: from deep dream to GANs
Margaret Maynard Reid is a machine learning engineer at Tiny Peppers. She currently works on research to showcase how AI can be used to create art. "I'm a machine learning GDE. I contribute to TensorFlow, write tutorials, and blog posts and speak at … Read more
AI ethics: Careful with that AI Eugene!
Najla Said is IBM Cloud Data Science Team Manager in Italy. She takes a look at how AI benefits come with a cost. The use of intelligent machines, indeed, not only introduces new forms of issues, but also widen our attack surface, and is triggering … Read more
Making Remote Work Work
It's a time when many of us have become accustomed to working from home. What happens when you need to return to the office and how do you convince your manager to let you remain working remotely? Alex Warren is an Engineering Manager at AlphaSights … Read more
Building and sustaining volunteers in developer communities
When people think of cities of tech innovation in East Germany, Berlin is inevitably the one that springs to mind. But travel an hour east and you'll find yourself in Leipzig, a city that is home to a lively corporate and startup scene as well as the … Read more
The value of the developer advocate and open source technology to today’s developers
Don Goodman Wilson is philosopher-engineer who focuses on ethics in tech and empowering software maintainers. He's the founder of Katsudon.tech consultancy, the DevRel Salon, and sits on the board of the Maintainerati Foundation. He has a Bachelor of … Read more