Hey All, I’m an instructor teaching in a Data Science program, and have recently discovered a bit of an… odd situation related to the for-profit side of Julia. I mostly teach Python (it’s the first language of data science at the moment, so I think to do otherwise would be unfair to students who w…

[image] viralbshah: But JuliaRun is not a library for launching clusters in a variety of different cluster environments. JuliaRun is a cloud platform for companies to run Julia behind a firewall, scale jobs with Kubernetes, with authenticated user accounts and various enterprise features. We con…

[image] nickeubank: But I’d never run into a situation where I couldn’t find an open source solution to a thing of general interest in Python land, in part (I suspect) because it’s built on a MUCH bigger pool of contributors. Off the top of my head: Anaconda sells stuff , and PyTables had a P…

[image] Tamas_Papp: when, in face, they are selling this product. I think it was implied that it was hidden behind a pay wall. We’ve already discussed that much of the supporting work is already freely available but without the IT supported architecture. I remember reading the small page on J…

Numerical Python has quite a few commercial entities: Anaconda (formerly Continuum Analytics) [image] Anaconda | The World’s Most Popular Data Science Platform Anaconda is the birthplace of Python data science. We are a movement of data scientists, data-driven enterprises, and open sour…

@nickeubank Thank you for trying to get your students interested in Julia. It is much appreciated!

Getting to the technology, I recently found Dispatcher.jl from Invenia which does something similar to Dask: https://github.com/invenia/Dispatcher.jl There’s also an extension of that that to integrate into the Dask scheduler that needs updating: https://github.com/invenia/DaskDistributedDispatch…

[image] mkitti: If you cannot find a solution to what you need, ask around. People here are very willing to help and even create solutions for you. I know! Love the community, and thanks for these resouces. FWIW, I had been asking around for JuliaRun alternatives before this post – see here a…

Ah yes. You’ve caught us red handed with responding to the controversy. For better or for worse, we’re a bit more responsive on chat platforms like Slack or Zulip. We’re trying to figure out how to manage that and push more content to Discourse. It is probably better to post here first, but if you d…

[image] mkitti: It is probably better to post here first, but if you don’t get a reply, try posting a link to your post on Slack or Zulip. That’s super helpful to know, thanks @mkitti !

I teach R and data science at business school but I have exactly the opposite concerns as the post owner does. I only use free R resources in my class. To be honest, I am constantly concerned that RStudio may go bankrupt one day because they cannot get sufficient revenues. If they go bankrupt then…

RStudio has a pretty decent amount of revenue based on using the AGPL to shake down big companies that fear being sued.

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I know! Love the community, and thanks for these resouces. FWIW, I had been asking around for JuliaRun alternatives before this post – see here and here, plus I’ve been reading other past posts for insight.

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