HPCC Systems 10 Year Open Source Anniversary Discussion with Christopher Lo and Godson Fortil

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As part of the 10 Year anniversary podcast, this final episode of the HPCC Systems Platform Team mini-series includes interviews with Christopher Lo, Sr Software Engineer, and Godson "Godji" Fortil Software Engineer I, both with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group. They discuss with our host, Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, how the move to open source has changed the dynamics of testing and tech support for accommodating our open source community.

Flavio begins with Chris who joined the team right when the platform was moving to open source, so his skills and expertise with testing could not have come at a better time. Godji is one of the newer members of the team who was brought on to help with infrastructure testing and build management. Both Chris and Godji play critical roles in supporting the platform, not only for the business, but also for the wider community. From the early days even through today, Chris has formed many bonds and connections with our community users, ensuring user experience is top notch. He is well known among our Forums helping to troubleshoot and answer questions. Anticipating what the developers might need to run their jobs more efficiently, Chris continues to work on creating more automation tasks for smoother system management. Godji explains with 8.0 and the move to the cloud has introduced a whole new mindset when testing. Functionality that may have passed bare metal testing scripts now need to adapt for being able to pass the test to function in the cloud world. So now he keeps busy with working on containerized methods towards the most optimized environment.

The community relies heavily on the work produced by Chris and Godji, which most of it is behind the scenes working on many iterations before sharing the final version with the wider userbase. This powerful team of two are at the front lines of all new releases, and in a sense, the first users of any new code being deployed. Watch the full episode to hear more from Chris and Godji as they share more insight and tips for users to help manage their HPCC Systems environments.