ceon.nyc

Inspiration

Clients from Columbia and Harvard call for my help in setting up environments when the data gets too large for student machines, when the cloud bills are getting too large or when the process they are running is looking like it will take months. Over the years I have accumulated a set of best practices and a way to use an "always-on", "well-connected" as a collaboration machine with contractors and clients for specific projects. During the Hackathon I tried to turn my years of experience into a product for data engineering teams.

What it does

Provides fast, repeatable, cached builds and a dedicated team build server that accelerates compilation, data engineering and llm inference work.

How we built it

I gave a demo to the mentors of the different things I had built over the years and my client needs. They told me how automatic development environments with remote compute are available for new employees on the first day at Meta and Google. With that feedback I decided to build "Heroku for Development" to make it easy for new devs to get set up for fast builds. In the process, we took the fastest computer Apple makes and turned it into a linux server on a dedicated IP.

ceon.nyc is now online and provides three services: 1) A free installer to get set up with Nix and devenv for repeable builds (Free) 2) A public cache service for common workflows so they can experience fast builds. (Free) 3)

Challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for ceon.nyc

Built With

• nix