Ever want to help with the development of an opensource project but didnt want to have to do the lift the properly setup your workstation?

Ever get frustrated by the operational overhead of running an experiment within an organization?

Ever get frustrated with the amount of manual SOP required to maintain a software systems?

Yeah, us to. The fact is modern software systems are dynamic environments that need tools that are up to the challenge.

We need tools that are operationally simple while flexible enough to interact with highly dynamic environments.

Tools that blur the differences between local development and deployed environments.
Tools that support the developer, not tools that are supported by developers.
Tools that make it as easy to write, test, and deploy your ML model as it is for a frontend or api.
Tools that can progressively enhance each stage of the SDLC.

Tools collaborate with the wider ecosystem, not try to isolate from it.

What if instead of spending time digging through documentation for YAMLscript we instead were spending our time building new features?

EG was born out of having these needs unmet through multiple organizations and teams. Our current CI/CD systems often require specialized knowledge to setup and maintain for each platform. Our model training often require many engineers just to support training the models, never mind getting the trained results into production.

Why is this? simply put, we've overspecialized our systems. We have artifact repositories, ci/cd, workstations, environments all as independent systems. There is no cohesion. EG is designed to bring that cohesion into our processes.

EG provides the tools and flexibility to help stream line going from workstation development to operational support for production environments.

It provides the framework and tooling for standardized development environments (think codespaces, but without the cost). Allows for managing generalized compute resources for CI/CD, model training, ETL processes, and SOP tasks within an environment.

All while directly integrating with your IDE, and building off standard industry tools. Basically we want to replace the following with an easier alternatives:

• codespaces
• ci/cd runners/ui
• orchestration systems like airflow
• package repositories