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Jyoti is a cofounder and CEO of Harness, a software delivery platform meant to modernize your DevOps tooling and take the friction out of CI/CD. 

Devs can get started with the developer portal. 

In addition to Harness, Jyoti is a cofounder and entrepreneur partner at Unusual Ventures, which specializes in working with early-stage startups (pre-seed to Series A).

Connect with Jyoti on LinkedIn. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user kukuh, who won a Lifeboat badge for dishing out some wisdom on Android productFlavors in gradle-kotlin-dsl.

Read the paper Gias coauthored about incorrectness in AI-generated code or explore more of his research. 

You can connect with Gias via his website.

We previously covered research on Stack Overflow code snippets that Gias was involved in and spoke to his team about deriving sentiment from SO comments.  

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Adhi Ardiansyah for an excellent explanation of How to update a GitHub access token via command line.

Multimodal AI combines different modalities—audio, video, text, etc.—to enable more humanlike engagement and higher-quality responses from the AI model. 

WebRTC is a free, open-source project that allows developers to add real-time communication capabilities that work on top of an open standard to their applications. It supports video, voice, and generic data.

LiveKit is an open-source project that provides scalable, multi-user conferencing based on WebRTC. It’s designed to provide everything developers need to build real-time voice and video applications. Check them out on GitHub.

Connect with Russ on LinkedIn or X and explore his posts on the LiveKit blog.

Stack Overflow user Kristi Jorgji threw inquiring minds a lifejacket (badge) by answering their own question: Error trying to import dump from mysql 5.7 into 8.0.23.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be the world’s largest open-source software business. You can dive into the docs here.

Created by IBM and Red Hat, InstructLab is an open-source project for enhancing LLMs. Learn more here or join the community on GitHub.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn.  

User AffluentOwl earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to force JavaScript to deep copy a string?. 

From her early days coding on a TI-84 calculator, to working as an engineer at IBM, to pivoting over to her new role in DevRel, speaking, and community, Mrina has seen the world of coding from many angles. 

You can follow her on Twitter here and on LinkedIn here.

You can learn more about CK editor here and TinyMCE here.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user NYI for earning a great question badge by asking: 

How do I convert a bare git repository into a normal one (in-place)?

You can learn more about Kohsuke on his website.

You can read more about Jenkins here.

You can read more about Cloudbees here.

Shout to Mossmyr for contributing a question that's now part of our CI/CD Collective:  Is there a way to call a Jenkins Shared Library method from another Jenkins Shared Library?

Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing your own VMs as untrustworthy. And he lays out where he thinks the world of cloud computing is headed as GenAI becomes a bigger piece of many company’s tech stack. 

You can find Pradeep on LinkedIn. He also writes a blog and hosts a podcast over at Oracle First Principles. 

Congrats to Stack Overflow user shantanu, who earned a Great Question badge for asking: 

Which shell I am using in mac?

 Over 100,000 people have benefited from your curiosity.

You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here.

You can find Austin at the CNCF Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the client-side SIG channels. The calendar is public on opentelemetry.io. Embrace has its own Slack community to talk all things Embrace or all things mobile observability. You can join that by going to embrace.io as well.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Cottentail for earning an Illuminator badge, awarded when a user edits and answers 500 questions, both actions within 12 hours.

For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey. 

Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applications. You can follow the company on X and check out their work on GitHub. 

You can learn more about Avthar on his website and on LinkedIn. 

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Haymaker for earning a Great Question badge. They asked: 

How Can I Override the Default SQLConnection Timeout

? Nearly 250,000 other people have been curious about this same question.

You can learn more about Geshan on his website or check him out on LinkedIn.

Geshan also shared the slide decks for a few of his talks on serverless and containers.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Matthew Reed for earning a populist badge with his answer to the question: GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?