Hi Eugene, first of all, big congrats to you ! I'm sure that we will see a great programming model for machine learning !
I would like also to thank you for the work you did, helping lot of people, reviewing bunch of PRs (always high quality review). I'm sure we will have the chance to work together in the future ! >From the Talend side: 1. I will lead with the update of the Spark runner with the help of Ismaël and Etienne 2. Etienne is leading metric and Nexmark with the help of Alexey 3. Ismaël and I are working on Splittable DoFn 4. I'm working on Beam Schema with Anton and Reuven 5. For the IO, I'm leading the Talend team (all together) Thanks again Eugene, and all the best for your new journey ! Regards JB On 16/07/2018 21:17, Eugene Kirpichov wrote: > Hi beamers, > > After 5.5 years working on data processing systems at Google, several of > these years working on Dataflow and Beam, I am moving on to do something > new (also at Google) in the area of programming models for machine > learning. Anybody who worked with me closely knows how much I love > building programming models, so I could not pass up on the opportunity > to build a new one - I expect to have a lot of fun there! > > On the new team we very much plan to make things open-source when the > time is right, and make use of Beam, just as TensorFlow does - so I will > stay in touch with the community, and I expect that we will still work > together on some things. However, Beam will no longer be the main focus > of my work. > > I've made the decision a couple months ago and have spent the time since > then getting things into a good state and handing over the community > efforts in which I have played a particularly active role - they are in > very capable hands: > - Robert Bradshaw and Ankur Goenka on Google side are taking charge of > Portable Runners (e.g. the Portable Flink runner). > - Luke Cwik will be in charge of the future of Splittable DoFn. Ismael > Mejia has also been involved in the effort and actively helping, and I > believe he continues to do so. > - The Beam IO ecosystem in general is in very good shape (perhaps the > best in the industry) and does not need a lot of constant direction; and > it has a great community (thanks JB, Ismael, Etienne and many others!) - > however, on Google side, Chamikara Jayalath will take it over. > > It was a great pleasure working with you all. My last day formally on > Beam will be this coming Friday, then I'll take a couple weeks of > vacation and jump right in on the new team. > > Of course, if my involvement in something is necessary, I'm still > available on all the same channels as always (email, Slack, Hangouts) - > but, in general, please contact the folks mentioned above instead of me > about the respective matters from now on. > > Thanks! -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
