Chad Whitacre
Appearances
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
Yeah, one of the things that we're seeing is that in the past, people had separate systems where they had logs on servers written to files. They were maybe sending some metrics to Datadog or something like that or some other system. They were monitoring for errors with some product, maybe with Sentry.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
But more and more what we see is people want all of these sources of telemetry logically tied together somehow. And that's really what we're pursuing at Sentry now. We have this concept of a trace ID, which is kind of a key that ties together all of the pieces of data that are associated with the user action.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
So if user loads a web page, we want to tie together all the server requests that happened, any errors that happened, any metrics that were collected. And what that allows on the back end You don't just have to look at like three different graphs and sort of line them up in time and try to draw your own conclusions.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
You can actually like analyze and slice and dice the data and say, hey, what did this metric look like for people with this operating system versus this metric look like for people with this operating system and actually get into those details. So this kind of idea of.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
Tying all of the telemetry data together using this concept of a trace ID or basically some key, I think is a big win for developers trying to diagnose and debug real world systems in something that is, we're kind of charged the path for that for everybody.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
Yeah, I mean, I guess again, I'll just keep saying it maybe, but I think it kind of goes back to this debugability experience. When you are digging into an issue, you know, having a sort of a richer data model that's, you know, your logs are structured, they're sort of this hierarchical structure with spans.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
And not only is it just the spans that are structured, they're tied to errors, they're tied to other things. So when you have the data model that's kind of interconnected, it opens up all different kinds of analysis that were just kind of either very manual before, kind of guessing that maybe this log happened at the same time as this other thing, or we're just impossible.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
We get excited not only about the new kinds of issues that we can detect with that interconnected data model, but also just for every issue that we do detect, how easy it is to get to the bottom of it.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
So at Assembly, we're building industry-leading speech AI models for various tasks like speech-to-text, streaming speech-to-text, speech understanding, to help developers easily convert voice data, whether it's live or pre-recorded, into super accurate text. And then to help developers extract a ton of information and metadata around voice data or even around the text that they just recorded.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
We're able to convert from that audio data. So these are things like picking out entities or PII that was spoken in voice files or summarizing voice and audio data down into custom summaries. It's things like being able to detect how many speakers spoke and who said what and what the names of different speakers were.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
So we bundle all those things into a super simple API with really great docs that developers can just sign up to for free to start, use the API, build into their apps, and then build these really cool AI apps and products and workflows and automations on top of voice data with.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
i dig it okay can you take me a little deeper into the opportunity for developers because it seems like there's a lot of voice data out there and there's a lot of trapped value in that voice data there's so much voice data being created on the internet now podcasts videos phone calls voice messages audio books virtual meetings it's crazy and you can now transform and understand all this voice and audio data in ways that were not even possible a year 18 months ago
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
So what we're seeing with the help of these new AI models that we're creating at Assembly, developers and organizations are just racing to build all these new applications, workflows, automations that leverage the voice data they have either within their organization or within their product to build really cool new products, services, workflows that are just like taking off in the market.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
So at Assembly, we're building the industry leading models for all those different apps and workflows, whether it's speech to text or speaker diarization or speech understanding capabilities to summarize voice data or extract entities voice data or mask PII from phone calls for various types of automations that might be built.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
And we're exposing that through a super simple, super scalable API that's just constantly being updated and constantly getting better. And so we're seeing a crazy amount of developers and companies just build really cool apps and services on top of our API every day.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
It's really only just getting started, especially with the model updates that we have planned over the second half of the year that are coming out. They're really excited to launch to the developers on our API.