James Bourbeau
I'm a software engineer and open source community member. Most of my coding activities center around the Python data science stack. In particular, I'm a core maintainer of Dask and I work at Coiled where I focus on scaling Python. Previously I studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I received my PhD in Physics.
Sessions
Cloud UX kinda sucks. It was written for cloud engineers who like very explicit systems, and always read the docs. This makes it a bad fit for data people (data scientists, data engineers, machine learning researchers) who rapidly learn and use several tools on a day-to-day basis. This mismatch in UX expectations results in poor utilization and wasted resources.
This talk goes through the challenges we faced when building a cloud UX for data people, and the kinds of solutions we ended up adopting when supporting Dask (parallel python) in a cloud environment.