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Remote RubyRailsConf 2025 RecapIn this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew reflect on their experiences at the final RailsConf in Philly. They discuss their interactions, keynotes, the vibe of community, and favorite talks that stood out. Highlights include reminiscing about Aaron Patterson and Aji Slater's keynotes and their entertaining reflections on 20 years of RailsConf history. They also explore the recent updates and adjustments to technical practices, such as the FerrumPdf gem, handling Turbo Frames requests, and the excitement surrounding the emerging Hotwire Dev Tools extension. Hit the download button now! LinksJudoscale- Remote Ruby listener giftGoogle C...
2025-07-2545 min
The New Stack PodcastYour AI Coding Buddy Is Always Available at 2 a.m.Aja Hammerly, director of developer relations at Google, sees AI as the always-available coding partner developers have long wished for—especially in those late-night bursts of inspiration. In a conversation with Alex Williams at Google Cloud Next, she described AI-assisted coding as akin to having a virtual pair programmer who can fill in gaps and offer real-time support. Hammerly urges developers to start their AI journey with tools that assist in code writing and explanation before moving into more complex AI agents. She distinguishes two types of DevEx AI: using AI to build apps and using it to...
2025-05-1520 min
Open Hardware Manufacturing PodcastEp. 21 - Incorporating Community FeedbackTrying to find the best way to incorporate community feedback can be tough, especially when that feedback is criticism. You have to be the director of your project's path, know where it has to go, and be opinionated. You have to assume they mean well in their criticism and you need to really show off the work that was done when a community member adds something to the project. To find out more about what we do, check out Opulo.ioTo see everything else we do, including social media, check...
2024-05-3059 min
Screaming in the CloudImproving the Developer Experience with Aja HammerlyAja Hammerly, Developer Relations Manager at Google Cloud, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss her unexpected career journey at Google and what she’s learned about improving the developer experience throughout her career. Aja and Corey discuss the importance of not only creating tools for developers that are intuitive and easy to adopt, but also cater to different learning styles. Aja describes why it’s so important to respond with curiosity when a user does something seemingly random within a piece of software, and also reveals why she feels so strongly about the principle of least surp...
2023-04-0633 min
Community PulseInternal vs. External DevRel (Ep 55)While DevRel holds some universal truths, there is at times a difference between how we handle our external communities as opposed to our internal communities. While we are still bringing people together, some of the approaches and interested parties may change. How do we foster communities and communicate feedback within an organization? Is it so different from “traditional” DevRel? To find out more, Wesley and PJ sit down with Aja Hammerly, Davey Shafik, and Kevin McIntosh to talk about the ins and outs of both sides.
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2021-01-1541 min
Django ChatAdvanced Deployment - Katie McLaughlinWeekly Django Chat NewsletterTwitter @glasntKatie's talksPyCon 2020 - What is deployment, anyway? (video)PyCon 2020 - Tutorial: Deploying Django on Serverless Infrastructureih-aas repo Google Cloud SQLGoogle Cloud RunCloud Run buttondjango-demo-app-unicodexAja Hammerly thread on Developer Advocates being busy without conferencesDjangoCon Europe 2016 - Building a Non-Relational Backend for the ORM - Adam Alton (video) (djangae)"Every production setup will be a little bit different" - djangoproject.com
2020-04-2249 min
Google Cloud Platform PodcastPython with Katie McLaughlinAja Hammerly and Brian Dorsey are here this week to start off a new year of podcasts! In an interview with Google Developer Advocate Katie McLaughlin, we talk about the advantages of Python 3 and why version 2 has been retired, as well as the cool things you can do with Django. Later, Katie discusses the complexities of deployment and how she makes it work smoothly with GCP, and we have some fun with emojis! Katie McLaughlin Katie has worn many different hats over the years. She is currently a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud...
2020-02-1928 min
Google Cloud Platform PodcastPython with Katie McLaughlinAja Hammerly and Brian Dorsey are here this week to start off a new year of podcasts! In an interview with Google Developer Advocate Katie McLaughlin, we talk about the advantages of Python 3 and why version 2 has been retired, as well as the cool things you can do with Django.Later, Katie discusses the complexities of deployment and how she makes it work smoothly with GCP, and we have some fun with emojis!
2020-02-1928 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastQubit with Matthew Tamsett and Ravi UpretiOur guests Matthew Tamsett and Ravi Upreti join Gabi Ferrara and Aja Hammerly to talk about data science and their project, Qubit. Qubit helps web companies by measuring different user experiences, analyzing that information, and using it to improve the website. They also use the collected data along with ML to predict things, such as which products users will prefer, in order to provide a customized website experience.Matthew talks a little about his time at CERN and his transition from working in academia to industry. It’s actually fairly common for physicists to branch out into data sc...
2019-10-0228 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastQubit with Matthew Tamsett and Ravi UpretiOur guests Matthew Tamsett and Ravi Upreti join Gabi Ferrara and Aja Hammerly to talk about data science and their project, Qubit. Qubit helps web companies by measuring different user experiences, analyzing that information, and using it to improve the website. They also use the collected data along with ML to predict things, such as which products users will prefer, in order to provide a customized website experience. Matthew talks a little about his time at CERN and his transition from working in academia to industry. It's actually fairly common for physicists to branch out into data...
2019-10-0228 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastML with Dale MarkowitzOn the podcast this week, we have a great interview with Google Developer Advocate, Dale Markowitz. Aja Hammerly and Jon Foust are your hosts, as we talk about machine learning, its best use cases, and how developers can break into machine learning and data science. Dale talks about natural language processing as well, explaining that it’s basically the intersection of machine learning and text processing. It can be used for anything from aggregating and sorting Twitter posts about your company to sentiment analysis.For developers looking to enter the machine learning space, Dale suggests starting with non li...
2019-09-1130 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastML with Dale MarkowitzOn the podcast this week, we have a great interview with Google Developer Advocate, Dale Markowitz. Aja Hammerly and Jon Foust are your hosts, as we talk about machine learning, its best use cases, and how developers can break into machine learning and data science. Dale talks about natural language processing as well, explaining that it's basically the intersection of machine learning and text processing. It can be used for anything from aggregating and sorting Twitter posts about your company to sentiment analysis. For developers looking to enter the machine learning space, Dale suggests starting with non...
2019-09-1130 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastML and AI with Sherol ChenOn the show today, we speak with Developer Advocate and fellow Googler, Sherol Chen about machine learning and AI. Jon Foust and Aja Hammerly learn about the history and impact of AI and ML on technology and gaming. What does it mean to be human? What can machines do better than humans, and what can humans do better than machines? These are the large questions that we aim to solve in order to understand and use AI. Sherol goes on to explain the types of deep learning machines can achieve, from neural networks to decision trees.Sherol also...
2019-08-1430 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastML and AI with Sherol ChenOn the show today, we speak with Developer Advocate and fellow Googler, Sherol Chen about machine learning and AI. Jon Foust and Aja Hammerly learn about the history and impact of AI and ML on technology and gaming. What does it mean to be human? What can machines do better than humans, and what can humans do better than machines? These are the large questions that we aim to solve in order to understand and use AI. Sherol goes on to explain the types of deep learning machines can achieve, from neural networks to decision trees. Sherol...
2019-08-1430 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastNext 2019 Day 3Welcome to day three of Next! More awesome interviews await in this episode, as hosts Mark Mirchandani, Aja Hammerly, Mark Mandel, Jon Foust and their guests explore more of Next. To start, Dan of Viacom joins Mark and Jon to talk about his job in the TV business and why he loves Istio. Host-turned-guest Aja and Lauren of the Developer Relations team sat in the booth to talk with the Marks about the developer keynote at Next. Aja and Lauren elaborate on how they work to promote Next and put together content inclusive of all...
2019-04-1220 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastNext 2019 Day 3Welcome to day three of Next! More awesome interviews await in this episode, as hosts Mark Mirchandani, Aja Hammerly, Mark Mandel, Jon Foust and their guests explore more of Next.To start, Dan of Viacom joins Mark and Jon to talk about his job in the TV business and why he loves Istio.Host-turned-guest Aja and Lauren of the Developer Relations team sat in the booth to talk with the Marks about the developer keynote at Next. Aja and Lauren elaborate on how they work to promote Next and put together content inclusive of all aspects...
2019-04-1220 min
REWORKHiring Is Not Hazing Hello, Mallory - 00:20The Baby-Sitters Club - 00:40Aja Hammerly's website - 2:18Aja's post, "There Is No Perfect Interview" - 2:22Aja's tweets on hiring from November 2018 - 7:24A blog post by Basecamp CEO Jason Fried that talks about design challenges - 14:20Aja on Twitter - 23:15For further reading from Basecamp on this topic, Jim Mackenzie on the Support team has written some great Signal v. Noise posts about hiring: "Interview or Interrogation?" and "Under Pressure"
2019-03-1223 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastGo Cloud Functions with Stewart Reichling and Tyler Bui-PalsulichFirst-time host, Aja, joins Mark today to talk Go Cloud Functions with two Google colleagues! Stewart, lead Product Manager on Google Cloud Functions, and Tyler, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, start the show by explaining the purpose of Cloud Functions. It is a serverless compute product that supports many programming languages, scales automatically, and only charges for what you use. It works best as event-driven computing, in other words, when something happens, you want something else to happen in response. Cloud Functions also works well between clouds or even Google Cloud services, acting as the glue between them.
2019-02-0632 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastBigQuery Under the Hood with Tino Tereshko and Jordan TiganiHave you ever wanted to know what powers BigQuery under the hood? Tino Tereshko and Jordan Tigani sit in front of the microphone with co-hosts Mark and Francesc to talk all about it! About Tino Tereshko Tino is the Big Data Lead for Office of the CTO at Google Cloud, focusing on building strategic relationships with the world's top Enterprises in the interest of sharing and accelerating technological innovation. Tino hails from the BigQuery team, where he solved difficult cloud-native product problems, enabled Googlers and customers, and built programs like BigQuery Pacific. In earlier years...
2017-09-1334 min
Developer On FireEpisode 255 | Aja Hammerly - Fun Pink Dinosaur
Guest:
Aja Hammerly
@the_thagomizer
Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-255-aja-hammerly-fun-pink-dinosaur
2017-07-2700 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastRuby with Aja HammerlyToday Aja Hammerly, Developer Advocate and fellow teammate at Google Cloud Platform, joins your cohosts Francesc and Mark to tell us about all the cool things you can do with Ruby on Google Cloud. About Aja Hammerly Aja lives in Seattle where she is a Developer Advocate at Google and a member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. Her favorite languages are Ruby and Prolog. She also loves working with large piles of data. In her free time she enjoys skiing, cooking, knitting, and long coding sessions on the beach. Cool thing of the...
2016-11-2326 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastStackdriver monitoring with Aja HammerlyAja Hammerly, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, discusses with your cohosts Francesc and Mark what monitoring is and how Stackdriver makes it easy on Google Cloud, other cloud providers, and even on premise. About Aja Aja lives in Seattle where she is a developer advocate at Google and a member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. Her favorite languages are Ruby and Prolog. She also loves working with large piles of data. In her free time she enjoys skiing, cooking, knitting, and long coding sessions on the beach. Cool thing of the week...
2016-07-1330 min
Hanselminutes with Scott HanselmanPractical Containers for Developers with Aja HammerlyThere's so much talk about containers as it's clearly the buzzword today. Rather than doing a deep dive into container tech, Scott talks to Aja Hammerly about what containers really means to us as developers. How do containers change our workflow? Is the promise of cloud portability real?
2016-05-1331 min
Ruby Rogues130 RR Data Visualization with Aja HammerlyAja Hammerly talks to the Rogues about distilling data into a graphical representation that communicates the meaning and message of your data.Special Guest: Aja Hammerly . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support.
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