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Jemiah Sius

Jemiah Sius

New Relic | Senior Director, Developer Relations

Miami, Florida, United States

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I am a Full-stack Engineer turned DevRel Engineer at New Relic. With a background in software engineering and marketing direction, my experience involves: designing and developing user interfaces, addressing customer/client pain points, marketing automation, and community development.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Arts
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • DevOps
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering Management
  • Distributed Software Systems
  • Open Source Software
  • AWS DevOps
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Observability
  • Monitoring and Observability
  • App observability
  • Data Observability

HOW WE BUILD SOFTWARE: A DEVELOPMENT AND COLLABORATION WORKFLOW TO MINIMISE CONTEXT SWITCHING

We'll start the workshop with a brief overview of CodeStream and the services it integrates with. We'll also take this time to help any attendees who want to work with us during the workshop through the initial CodeStream installation and set-up.

Then we'll begin our typical development day!

First up, we will walk through the most common workflow; grabbing a ticket with a known solution, writing some code, and creating a PR.

Next up, we'll triage a bug report. We'll see how you can view production errors and explore their stack traces from within your editor and how it can help you quickly identify the source of bugs. We'll also see how CodeStream's "request feedback" functionality, as well as its ability to share code directly to Slack and other messaging services, makes it easy to collaborate on complex code changes.

Once we've squashed the bug, it's time to perform a code review! We'll use CodeStream to view an open PR and perform our review. We'll also look at how viewing changes within the context of an entire codebase gives a better understanding of the wider implications of each merge.

Finally, we'll look at how CodeStream combines with other extensions to supercharge your development process. We'll finish the workshop by inviting some of our New Relic colleagues to join us in a remote mob programming session, which we'll coordinate and launch without ever leaving our IDE.

Throughout the workshop, attendees will be given the opportunity to practice with CodeStream by helping our host by pairing, reviewing their PRs, and providing code feedback within their editor

How to cure generative AI hallucinations with observability

Generative AI (GenAI) applications are known to “hallucinate,” or confidently respond with false or made-up information. Hallucinations are one of the biggest drawbacks to using this tech and are also famously hard to detect, prevent, and fix. But, researchers and engineers are racing to solve this problem as GenAI adoption increases.

So, for a DevOps team adopting this tech now, what’s the best way to tell when hallucinations happen, and most importantly, why?

Engineers, and the company’s bottom line, need a way to trace the path of the response—from the user’s prompt and integration with a large language model (LLM) to work by agents, API calls, and back to the end user. By monitoring every step, engineers can learn where hallucinations originate and apply a potential fix, like adding more context to the prompt or ensuring the LLM is re-summarizing responses accurately, so they can quickly take action and improve the quality of their results.

In this session, Jemiah Sius, Senior Director of Developer Relations at New Relic will explain how companies can use observability to help prevent GenAI hallucinations and share ways DevOps teams can improve their LLM integrations with context, agents, chained models, and more—with a focus on how to do it affordably.

In his role, Jemiah leads a global team focused on solving friction points for engineering teams—keeping them at the center of New Relic’s innovation strategy—so they can more easily find and fix issues before they impact their business and customers.

With that, he understands the challenges DevOps teams face and how, if deployed strategically, GenAI solutions can help solve those challenges.

Jemiah Sius

New Relic | Senior Director, Developer Relations

Miami, Florida, United States

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