Transcript: Scale By the Bay 2023: Interview with Evan Chan.

so my name is Evan Chan I work for conviva Inc as a principal engineer so uh we are in the uh streaming uh real time streaming analytics business and I think like any other data company like AI is uh really important because it it's it's not enough just to give people answers I think people want the the right answer and I think AI is a really important part of that because just giving people Mountain sense of data is kind of useless so um I I think two parts one is that anomy detection is is really important in our line of work so we want to help people proactively figure out what problems that they see so so so that so that part of AI is extremely important to us um and you know you know thing things like cohort learning that's kind of thing um another thing uh is that is you know I think everyone is crazy about large language models and and so we're looking at uh the use of that in in multiple different areas but uh even like we've started you know with just like helping customers like figure out how to use our system like that kind of thing but there's a lot of things we're looking into um and and and personally like as a software developer I think chat gbt is useful for even just every day like learning like how to do this or that or you know so for getting ideas that's a good question I'm not really sure yet but I certainly hope to uh dive a lot deeper into like uh how we can use large language models for different things like uh even for uh for database and data pipeline work um and um I hope to dive a lot deeper into anomal detection that's because that's an important area for us yeah there's probably too many uh to list I think for me I'm probably going to be the most excited about uh the like talks about streaming data and and um I know there's a few rust talks that want to attend so but but you know like I think they all look really good so we ult to pick well you know I I've been here a number of years like I I think um the the best part is just that it it is really developer focus and it's very relaxed um and and and the people are awesome you know so awesome speakers and uh great people like you always you know learn a lot chatting with different people so I I I think that's what I would say you know it's like you come uh because uh it it it's worth a while just because of of the people