In this presentation, Crafting introduces its cloud-based development platform aimed at simplifying complex development workflows. Crafting enables developers to work entirely through a browser, offering a seamless, cloud-hosted environment with features like a web terminal, web-based VS Code, and integration with local tools. The platform allows for standardized environments, supports complex setups with microservices, and facilitates debugging and testing through instant changes. It also provides shared staging environments, where developers can safely test and debug their services without disrupting others. Crafting aims to streamline the development process, allowing for quicker iterations and increased productivity. More info: "Crafting Inc provides the innovative development platform as a one-stop solution for engineering teams to work productively in simplified, rapid-replicable environments at low cost."

Alerty showcased a monitoring platform tailored for frontend teams, filling a gap in existing tools that focus mainly on backend needs. Unlike traditional solutions like Datadog, Alerty offers user experience monitoring and error tracing for frontend applications. The demo showcased Alerty’s automatic alert setup and AI-driven troubleshooting, helping teams quickly resolve issues like typos and DNS errors. Integrating with frontend technologies like Next.js, it provides detailed insights into performance and user interactions, emphasizing ease of setup and actionable alerts. More info: "Alerty is an AI SRE that can monitor your app, answer questions, send intelligent alerts, and automate issue resolution."

Resourcely showcased its solution aimed at simplifying the work of infrastructure and DevOps teams. In the modern DevOps landscape, developers often face hurdles when managing cloud infrastructure, such as configuring S3 buckets or setting up databases. Resourcely addresses these challenges by providing two core components: blueprints and guardrails. Blueprints offer developers pre-configured patterns for cloud resources, while guardrails ensure compliance with best practices. By integrating these elements, Resourcely enables developers to move faster and stay focused on coding, while automating reviews and approvals for risky configurations. The session emphasized how Resourcely aims to boost productivity without compromising security or configuration standards. More info: "Resourcely helps engineering leaders ensure reliability, scalability, availability, and security of cloud infrastructure by enabling developers via self-service. Our customers can quickly set up golden patterns (blueprints) and guardrails (desired configuration settings) to guide developers towards correct configuration. Resourcely creates standard Terraform that works with customers' existing tools and pipelines."

Bacca introduces its groundbreaking AI-powered SRE designed to alleviate operational burdens from engineering teams. The speaker discusses the challenges faced in managing incident response and system reliability, highlighting the frequent firefighting that hampers productivity. Bacca aims to change this dynamic by leveraging AI to autonomously analyze incidents, gather historical context, and suggest actionable solutions, all within familiar tools like Slack. The demo showcases Bacca’s ability to provide insights and streamline incident management, ultimately enabling teams to focus on innovation rather than maintenance. For those interested in enhancing their operational efficiency, Bacca invites viewers to explore a partnership for integrating this AI solution into their engineering workflows. More info: “Bacca is the first AI-powered SRE designed to own your on-call shift. Seamlessly integrated with your existing operation tools such as Datadog, PagerDuty and Slack, bacca jumps into action at the first sign of trouble, forming triage plans, conducting investigations, and arriving at a trustworthy root cause analysis. Just like your most experienced engineer, bacca leverages historical operational experience and institutional knowledge to troubleshoot incidents with precision, all while maintaining the highest levels of security and privacy. Bacca is the perfect partner for growth-stage engineering teams experiencing operation challenges, reducing incident MTTR and freeing up your valuable engineering resources so you can focus more on innovations over operations.”

Vantage showcases its innovative cloud cost observability and optimization platform. Designed for users of major cloud services like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Vantage enables organizations to efficiently manage and optimize their cloud spending. The platform offers comprehensive insights into cloud costs, enabling users to track expenses, forecast budgets, and implement financial optimizations. Key features highlighted include customizable dashboards for monitoring costs across multiple providers, detailed reports on resource usage, and advanced tools for Kubernetes workload management. Vantage also supports anomaly detection, helping teams identify and address unexpected cost increases. This session emphasizes the platform’s self-service capabilities, making it accessible for teams to manage their cloud expenses effectively. More info: "Vantage is a cloud cost observability and optimization platform for AWS, Azure, GCP, Datadog, Github and 10 other cloud service providers. The company has raised $25M from a16z and Scale Venture Partners and currently assists 12,000 organizations ranging from startups to F500s manage billions of dollars of annualized cloud costs. More details can be found at www.vantage.sh"

DevInsight is an engineering intelligence platform, built on Apache Dev Lake, designed to improve the efficiency of software development teams. DevInsight integrates data from multiple DevOps tools, offering key performance metrics and dashboards that help teams identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement. The platform’s high customizability allows users to create tailored dashboards to suit their specific needs. As an open-source initiative, DevInsight benefits from community-driven innovation, enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality software more efficiently. More info: "DevInsight by Merico is an AI-powered analytics platform that offers deep insights into your development process, integrating seamlessly with dev tools across your SDLC (GitHub, Jira, Jenkins, PagerDuty, SonarQube, etc.). It helps you debug engineering productivity by providing actionable metrics and intelligent recommendations, while allowing you to customize those metrics to fit your team's unique needs, optimizing workflows and boosting productivity."

In this presentation, Superlinked explored the challenges of building vector search systems tailored for complex data. They emphasize the importance of effectively managing various data types beyond simple text, such as numbers and structured information commonly found in databases. The session highlights practical solutions for creating custom embedding models that enhance data ingestion and querying. Attendees can access valuable resources, including an open-source database comparison table and GitHub repository for hands-on experimentation. The talk aims to equip community members with insights and tools to harness vector search technology for real-world applications. More info: "Superlinked is a framework and soon a cloud service that helps AI & Data teams build vector embedding-powered software across RAG, Search, Recommendation Systems and Analytics. It is specifically focused on constructing custom data & query embedding models from pre-trained components, cutting down on time-to-market and the amount of compute required for evaluation and for production."

In this presentation, Levo AI introduces their continuous API observability and security platform, designed to streamline API management within engineering teams. The platform automatically discovers and documents all APIs within an enterprise, generating up-to-date OpenAPI specifications and facilitating seamless collaboration between teams. By employing advanced technologies like eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter), Levo enables organizations to monitor APIs for best practices, potential vulnerabilities, and compliance needs without requiring extensive manual documentation or code changes. This comprehensive solution not only enhances visibility into API ecosystems but also automates security testing and debugging processes, ultimately fostering greater efficiency in API development and integration. More info: "Levo.ai is the first API security company to leverage extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) to catalog and document every API in a running, pre-production environment, solving the problems around scalability and accuracy that hamper other vendors. Leveraging his tremendous engineering expertise, Buchi devised a CLI test runner that could be configured to run a single highly customized test or a continuous series of tests, depending on the requirements posed by each individual CI CD pipeline. By delivering the exact webapp vulnerability exploits with changelogs, Levo makes life easier for developers."