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Excel and Sheets. Is it time for a third alternative ?

issacops — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:44:48 +0000

My first memories of any number crunching software was Microsoft Excel. On a very slow Windows XP machine, Excel was the only spreadsheet program anybody needed and it was an overkill even then. The sheer number of features available on excel including the formulas and recently released plugins.

Anybody from Hedge Funds to Small Industries used excel to automate a good chunk of their work and proved to be one of the top selling software with the MS Office Suite.

Google Sheets was a more anew introduction with the Google Suite, which comes into adoption with the widespread usage of remote working and multiple people collaborating on similar projects. The fact that it's actually a web app that functions seamlessly shows the amount of work put into action.

Here comes the problem. Isn't it high time there's a complete redesign of our spreadsheet software and provide customers with a more user-friendly and data intense alternative ? There're some very fundamental tasks that could be converted into a user-friendly version in my opinion.

Basic Data inputs
Categorizing Data
Easy access to third party plugins
Ability to convert tables into diagrams and visual representations

Let's Talk ?

Announcing TremorCon 22' 📣

issacops — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 06:36:16 +0000

What’s Tremor ? 🔗

Tremor is an open-source early-stage event processing system for unstructured data with rich support for structural pattern-matching, filtering and transformation.

Since the spring of 2021, Tremor has continually participated in the LFX Mentorship program, under CNCF to guide developers looking to get involved in open-source projects.

TremorCon and Aviyel ✨

After a tremendously successful TremorCon 2021, we are eager to showcase some of our mentees' contributions during the past year, as well as a few of our industry use-cases. It's officially annual now. Come on, let's go to TremorCon 2022- it'll be fun!

Itinerary For The Day 📅

11:00 AM

Outlining a UI for Tremor
We will present a prototype UI for Tremor, its motivation, explore the design decisions behind the implementation, fantasize about future work and see it in action.

11:30 AM

Shaking up the realtime stack
the various patterns and pieces I've replaced with tremors

12:00 PM

Coffee Break
Tea works too

12:30 PM

Rust, the best and worst thing to happen to Tremor
Implementing Tremor's plugin system has been the best way to learn all about Rust. Join me in this talk to learn how Rust shaped the final design, both through the fun and not-so-fun times.

1:10 PM

Docusaurus to the Rescue: A New Era for Tremor's Documentation
With the different content sources for Tremor's different content forms, things were bound to get ugly fast. Enter Docusaurus- and now, you can find everything in one place. Quite pleasantly too.

1:30 PM

Lunch Break (1h)
Have some snacks and get energy for the second half of the day

2:30 PM

Patching up a fragmented env with OTEL and Tremor
We'll look into how we're using OTEL and Tremor to standardize our Logging infrastructure to be compliant to our Non-Functional Requirements.

3:00 PM

How I made tremor's release process boring by automating it 👨‍💻
Why do we need automation? Because no one loves repeating the same processes over and over again! So I decided to take tremor's long checklist process of manual release, and converted it into a single-click automated release! I'll also be talking about my experience working with tremor and its amazing community.

Speaker Lineup

Ben Gamble
Mariano Guerra
Prashant Mishra
Sharon Koech
Mario Ortiz Manero
Endre Karlson
Natali Vlatko
Heinz Gies
Darach Ennis
Matthias Wahl

RSVP - https://aviyel.com/post/3821/announcing-tremorcon-22

Can’t wait to see you all !!❤

AMA with Clément Salaün, Founder of Formance

issacops — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:17:08 +0000

*Integrating payments has become an integral part of product building for projects and companies. Although there’re payments processors and different methods to do it, an integration that’s easy to use and customize has become a much needed use case recently.
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Aviyel is organising an AMA with one of the best open-source ledger integration projects Formance. We will be joined by their Founder, Clément Salaün as we talk about their journey on building the open source modular foundation for unique payment flows.

What’s Formance ?

Formance Ledger lets you model and record complex money movements, helping you accelerate your business operations. Build financial dashboards, deliver payments to your marketplace partners, and accurately track revenue across your entire operation.

About the Speaker

Clément Salaün is a passionate developer involved in the fintech space with a high paced career in a relatively short period of time and is now the Founder of Formance, a Y-Combinator backed ledger tech startup.

Join us on September 14th, as we talk about The Open Source Modular Payments Flow startup.

Block your seats here:

https://aviyel.com/events/441

Wouldn’t be able to make it? Feel free to drop the questions you have in the discussion thread below!

AMA with Jeremy Ravenel, CEO of naas.ai

issacops — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 10:01:34 +0000

Data has undoubtedly become the new oil. Whether it’s FAANG companies or startups building products, it plays a huge role in both the functioning and marketing aspects of product-building.

Aviyel is organizing an AMA for the community about Building on Data with one of the best open-source data projects Naas.ai. We will be joined by their CEO - Jeremy Ravenel.

What’s Naas.ai ?

Notebooks as a service (Naas) is an open source platform that allows anyone touching data (analysts, scientists and engineers) to create powerful data solutions combining automation, analytics and AI from the comfort of their Jupyter notebooks.

Templates enable the user to create automated data jobs and reports in minutes.

Drivers act as connectors to push and/or pull data from databases, APIs, and Machine Learning algorithms and more.

Features transform Jupyter in a production ready environment with scheduling, asset sharing, and notifications.

About the Speaker

Jeremy is a data strategy leader and mentor with years of experience in Data-driven roles and now is the CEO of Naas.ai. He’s also a Stanford Lead Alumni and a veteran of many data-driven companies with his products being used by Fortune 500 companies like Amazon and Tesla.

Join us on September 9th, as we talk about The Open Source Data Solutions Platform.

Block your seats here:https://aviyel.com/events/439/ama-with-jeremy-ravenel-ceo-of-naas-ai

Wouldn’t be able to make it? Feel free to drop the questions you have in the discussion thread below!