Dear Bugout friends!
Welcome to the first issue of the Bugout community newsletter!
We’ll cover some projects that people have posted in the #share_your_project Bugout Slack channel, feature some of our most active community members, and share the latest updates on Bugout.
Bugs of the month
Carise Fernandez is the lead software engineer at B612 Foundation, where she is protecting Earth from the potential impact of asteroids. Carise is an ex-Googler. At Google, she worked on event threat detection, a GCP security product to detect threats in logs at scale.
Carise contributes to Bugout’s open source project called Locust, and maintains the Java version of the library.
Prashant Gaigavale is currently pursuing a career in machine learning. He worked as an Oracle DBA for 16+ years. He started his career initially as a developer in Oracle forms and reports, SQL/PLSQL and also did some of C++.
Prashant is actively helping Bugout community members by responding to their questions and sharing his expertise at #request_technical_help channel.
Bugout Highlights
We’re pleased to announce that Bugout was featured on ProductHunt and was included in the top 5 Products of the Day! Hooray! 🎉
We featured Bugout as a “Mixpanel for developer tools”, which allows maintainers of APIs, libraries, or command line tools to ethically collect usage metrics and crash reports from their users.
This was motivated by @zomglings work at Google on the TensorFlow team. We know how hard it is to clearly understand how users use your software, what issues they have, and how often they come up.
We built Bugout to bridge the gap between software maintainers and users.
Projects of the month
Some interesting projects maintained by our community members. Share your project in the #share_your_project channel on our Slack.
Activeloop is a YC company believing that Software 2.0 needs Data 2.0. Their open-source library Hub is one of the fastest-growing libraries on GitHub that lets you easily connect CV datasets to ML models. Hub is used by Google, Waymo, Red Cross and others.
Pants is an open source, scalable software build system with an emphasis on ease of use. Pants orchestrates the various tools and steps that process source code into deployable software: dependency resolution, code generation, compilation/type checking, testing, linting, formatting, packaging and more.
Pants is currently focused on Python, with support for other languages coming soon.
We genuinely admire people who build things. Our goal at Bugout is to help makers succeed. If you have any ideas or suggestions about how we can improve our community and our newsletter, email: sophia@bugout.dev.
Thank you for being a part of our growing community! Stay tuned – there are plenty of exciting updates to come! 💙