Josh Baer

Build a robust Ray platform ✅. Make its developer experience frictionless ✅. Done, but how did we do it? #MachineLearning engineers, @daikeshi and @davidxia_, will be giving you the inside scoop at #RaySummit on 9/19. Register to watch it live here: raysummit.anyscale.com/agenda/session…

What is Backstage and why are companies like Netflix, Grab, Wealthsimple, QuintoAndar, Wayfair and hundreds of other tech organizations adopting it? In this week's subscriber-only article, we went deep into Backstage, and alternatives to it: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/backstage

Pretty proud of the @Spotify team for this one – a generative, expressive and realistic AI DJ that delivers a personalized lineup of music and commentary to each user, for all those times you don’t know exactly what you want to hear. Hope you like it! 🎧 newsroom.spotify.com/2023-02-22/spo…

"Our goal for Spotify’s ML Platform has always been to create a seamless user experience for ML practitioners who want to take an ML application from development to production..." And so, we introduced @raydistributed to our @Spotify ecosystem. engineering.atspotify.com/2023/02/unleas…

Huge shoutout to @DivitaVohra @daikeshi and the rest of the team for driving this work to success for the last year. Their enthusiasm and effort drove major improvements on our underserved Research users, and some huge ML wins! 🚀 🎶

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I’m at #NeurIPS22 to present at the Offline RL Workshop / the RL4RealLife Workshop and to check out LLM work which Spotify is rapidly investing in, see you in New Orleans!

I will be attending @NeurIPSConf #NeurIPS2022 my 1st time at this conference. Happy to meet, and talk about research & machine learning @Spotify @SpotifyEng @SpotifyResearch. We are also expanding our expertise in large language models, see the role below. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/director-…

🎶One of these things is not like the others🎶

Good post. A lot of interest atm in wiring up LLMs to a wider compute infrastructure via text I/O (e.g. calculator, python interpreter, google search, scratchpads, databases, ...). The LLM becomes the "cognitive engine" orchestrating resources, its thought stack trace in raw text

Bad idea riding a @CitiBikeNYC to work during cold weather. And all those “open spots” are broken docks

@mattnworb on web, you get this popup. Somewhere there's some dude named Tom Averifil or something that's getting really frustrated they can't use their name.

Last month, @DivitaVohra and @polarfoxgirl gave a pair of great talks at our Spotify office for the MLOps meetup. Check out the videos in this thread

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@bennstancil This kinda sounds like how prioritization is done today but with a lot of extra steps, tbh. A lighter weight version that seems promising: @shishir/rituals-for-hyper-growth-an-inside-look-at-how-youtube-scaled/big-rock-100-prioritization-23" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">coda.io/@shishir/ritua…

it's f̶r̶i̶d̶a̶y̶ elon musk day, let's fight about capitalism. benn.substack.com/p/datas-invisi…

@Jiminy_Kirket @normconf If I remember correctly you created the data mess. Not mesh. Close though. Everyone knows the data mesh was invented by Al Gore.

just got my emcee instructions for @normconf and it says I'm supposed to introduce every speaker as "the inventor of the data mesh"? that can't be right, I invented it

@mipsytipsy @lizthegrey We (Spotify) have dedicated internal platform marketing folks that borders devrel? and some groups have dedicated engagement teams, but I’d say that role is largely driven by the Platform PMs w/ engineering partners.

This is exactly the comment @lizthegrey added to my platform piece -- about needing devrel for internal platforms. 🤔 These people *must* exist...but I don't think I've ever met one, or heard of any. If you're out there... say hi? I would love to talk to you. 📈🥃☺️

@davidpoblador @SpotifyCares sorry @davidpoblador, guess you have to come back now 😄

Hej @SpotifyCares! Former employee here. I lost my Premium after leaving the job, I signed up for the Duo plan, but it is completely impossible for my wife to join my duo because the address verification fails. (Pinky swear we live together). Can you help?

@Jiminy_Kirket For a week, my phone's slack had a phantom unread thread notification that led me to reinstall the apps on phone/mac. It's a disease (Shift+Escape on desktop is the cure)

I keep hearing the slack notification sound but see no popups and can't find any unreads and truly this is how my mind will unravel

My talk from @strangeloop_stl is out. It’s been on my conference bucket list for some time. If it’s on yours - next year is the last one!