General Session

Every day we take pictures left and right with our phones and other devices. We don't think twice about our ability to capture a moment in time that we can later see whenever we like. Zooming in to look at details of a picture, reversing it, changing its color, contrast, etc. are all functions we take for granted. *Why isnt such functionality commonplace for audio as well?* Sure, we can sample, loop, process, and transform audio samples, but *we can't zoom in to an instance of sound the same way *we can with an image because audio data is fundamentally [...]

It wasn’t long ago that everybody thought “Continuous Deliver” was only for tech companies. It is amazing how much things have changed over the past two years. More and more enterprises are exploring what it will take to achieve Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment for their core customer facing applications. The challenge for these companies is that many of the practices and processes they have put in place over the years stand in the way of achieving this goal. From rigorous engineering practices, to a very different view on product ownership, to organizational restructuring, to streamline the software development pipeline, [...]