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+title: July '20 Heartbeat
+date: 2020-07-10
+description: |
+  Catch up on new DVC releases, talks, and projects in our community. 
+  This month, we recap the DVC 1.0 release, making the list of top 20 fastest growing open-source startups, and interviews galore.
+descriptionLong: |
+  Catch up on new DVC releases, talks, and projects in our community. 
+  This month, we recap the DVC 1.0 release, making the list of top 20 fastest growing open-source startups, and interviews galore.
+picture: 2020-07-10/july_20_heartbeat_header.png
+author: elle_obrien
+commentsUrl: https://discuss.dvc.org/t/june-20-heartbeat/404
+tags:
+  - Heartbeat
+  - GitHub Actions
+  - DVC 1.0
+  - SciPy
+  - MLOps
+  - Reproducibility
+  - Meetup
+---
+
+Welcome to the July Heartbeat, our monthly roundup of [new releases](#news),
+[talks](#community-activity), and [upcoming events](#coming-up-soon) in the DVC
+community.
+
+## News
+
+### DVC 1.0 release
+
+On June 22, DVC entered a new era: the
+[official release of version 1.0](https://dvc.org/blog/dvc-1-0-release). After
+several weeks of bug-catching with our pre-release, the team has issued DVC 1.0
+for the public! Now when you
+[install DVC through your package manager of choice](https://dvc.org/doc/install),
+you'll get the latest version. Welcome to the future.
+
+To recap, DVC 1.0 has some big new features like:
+
+- Plots powered by Vega-Lite so you can compare metrics across commits
+- New and easier pipeline configuration files- edit your DVC pipeline like a
+  text file!
+- Optimizations for data transfer speed
+
+Read all the [release notes](https://dvc.org/blog/dvc-1-0-release) for more, and
+stop by our [Discord](https://discordapp.com/invite/dvwXA2N) if you need support
+migrating (don't worry, 1.0 is backwards compatible).
+
+### DVC is in the top 20 fastest-growing open source startups
+
+Konstantin Vinogradov at [Runa Capital](https://runacap.com/) used the GitHub
+API to
+[identify the fastest growing public repositories on GitHub](https://medium.com/runacapital/open-source-growth-benchmarks-and-the-20-fastest-growing-oss-startups-d3556a669fe6)
+in terms of stars and forks. He used these metrics to estimate the top 20
+fastest growing startups in open source software. And guess what, DVC made the
+cut! We're in great company.
+
+![](/uploads/images/2020-07-10/top20startups.png)
+
+### New team member
+
+We have a new teammate-[Maxim Shmakov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvshmakov/),
+previously of Yandex, is joining us! Maxim is a front-end engineer joining us
+from Moscow. Please welcome him to DVC. 👋
+
+## Community activity
+
+We've been busy! Although we are mostly homebound these days, there has been no
+shortage of speaking engagements. Here's a recap.
+
+Co-founders Dmitry and Ivan appeared on the HasGeek TV series
+[Making Data Science Work](https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/making-data-science-work-session-3/)
+to discuss engineering for data science with hosts
+[Venkata Pingali](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pingali/) and
+[Indrayudh Ghoshal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/indrayudhghoshal/). The
+livestream is available for viewing on YouTube!
+
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWcpALbzZRg
+
+The same day, Dmitry appeared on the [MLOps.community](https://mlops.community/)
+meetup to chat with host
+[Demetrios Brinkmann](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/). They talked about
+the open source ecosystem, the difference between tools and platforms, and what
+it means to codify data.
+
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojV1tK9jXH8&t=2295s
+
+I (Elle) gave another talk at the
+[MLOps Production & Engineering World](https://mlopsworld.com/) meeting, called
+"Adapting continuous integration and continuous delivery for ML". I shared an
+approach to using GitHub Actions & GitLab CI to start using continuous
+integration in ML model training- and it turns out, this conference is generally
+very excited about GitHub Actions! In another talk, GitHub technical advocate
+[Jonathan Peck](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peckjon/), shared some great use
+cases, including how he used an Nvidia Jetson Nano to run Actions. Generally,
+the mood around GitHub Actions in the ML community is very encouraging for a
+future with more automated data science practices.
+
+Extremely early the next morning, I co-led a workshop with clinician-scientist
+[Cris Lanting](https://www.linkedin.com/in/crislanting/?originalSubdomain=nl)
+about developing strong computational infrastructure and practices in research
+as part of the
+[Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology](https://computationalaudiology.com/).
+
+In addition to outlining key components of scientific reproducibility and
+project management, Cris and I did some investigating. We conducted an informal
+survey asking about the biggest barriers to making research reproducible and
+shareable. Participants overwhelmingly answered that they lack time and
+incentives. Difficulty managing dependencies (both data and software) was
+another popular answer. Sounds a bit like softare before
+[DevOps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps)... For the curious, the workshop
+is still viewable!
+
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CoptalWw0
+
+Lastly, check out our virtual poster for
+[SciPy 2020](https://www.scipy2020.scipy.org/)! We prepared a demo about
+[packaging models and datasets like software](https://dvc.org/blog/scipy-2020-dvc-poster)
+so they can be widely disseminated via GitHub.
+
+## Coming up soon
+
+Some things to watch out for in the next few weeks:
+
+- **DVC Virtual Meetup.** In May, we had our
+  [first every virtual meetup](http://localhost:8000/blog/may-20-dvc-heartbeat).
+  We had amazing talks from [Dean Pleban](https://twitter.com/DeanPlbn) and
+  [Elizabeth Hutton](https://github.com/ehutt), plus time for Q&A with the DVC
+  team- you can
+  [watch the recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19GMtrFykSU&list=PLVeJCYrrCemiOc1SS_PIB3Tb3HX0Aqw3j)
+  if you missed it!
+
+  On Thursday, July 30, we're hosting our second meetup! Ambassador
+  [Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas](http://mribeirodantas.me/) is hosting once again.
+  We'll have short talks about causal modeling and CI/CD, plus lots of time for
+  chatting and catching up. Please RSVP!
+
+<blockquote class="embedly-card"><h4><a href="https://www.meetup.com/DVC-Community-Virtual-Meetups/events/271844501/">July DVC Meetup: Data Science & DevOps!</a></h4><p>This meetup will be hosted by DVC Ambassador Marcel! AGENDA:We have two 10-minute talks on the agenda:- Causal Modeling with DVC - Marcel- Continuous integration for ML case studies - Elle Following talks, we'll have Q&A with the DVC team and time for community discussion.</p></blockquote>
+<script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>
+
+- Please stay tuned for details about [ML REPA](http://ml-repa.ru/) leader and
+  DVC Ambassador [Mikhail Rozhkov](https://twitter.com/mnrozhkov)'s Udemy
+  course! It will cover DVC and MLOps fundamentals. We're thrilled there will
+  soon be more ways for folks to learn rigorous data engineering concepts and
+  practices.
+
+As always, thanks for reading and being part of our community. There are lots of
+ways to stay in touch. Follow us on [Twitter](twitter.com/dvcorg), join our
+[Discord server](https://discordapp.com/invite/dvwXA2N), or leave a blog
+comment. We always love to hear from you!
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