Sponsored Session: Mining Large Data Sets of Biomedical Omics Data Made Easy with Managed Kubernetes! Doug Davis, IBM & Theodore Alexandrov, EMBL

Code Engine is a serverless platform developed by IBM to provide a scalable solution for science and industry users, reducing infrastructure overhead and delays, and simplifying coding files.

• Developers want to focus on producing value, not managing infrastructure
• Managing infrastructure is hard and a distraction for developers
• Code Engine is a solution to this problem, providing a serverless platform for developers to code without worrying about infrastructure
• Code Engine reduces infrastructure overhead and delays, and simplifies coding files
• Lithops was instrumental in removing bottlenecks and simplifying coding files for Metaspace

Scientists using Metaspace experienced deployment delays, infrastructure and queue management issues, and resource planning problems due to irregular submissions. IBM partnered with Metaspace to co-develop a user-friendly serverless framework using Lithops, resulting in the creation of Code Engine. Code Engine provides a solution for developers to focus on coding without worrying about infrastructure, reducing overhead and delays, and simplifying coding files.

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