GinkgoBits

Tech that is driven by the passion of making biology easier to engineer. Software, DevOps, and Product bits and bytes of what we do to make it happen at @ginkgo

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This month on #ginkgobits, Principal Software Engineer Gigi Jackson tells us how to follow #bestpractices by preventing interactive shells in production #Kubernetes! https://t.co/iOUiHElSMJ

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Happy New Year! This month on #ginkgobits, Principal Software Engineer Ray Lam tells us a bit about #buildkit and how it can help you optimize your #docker builds! https://t.co/BbHAfJxxFk

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This week on #ginkgobits, the last part of our series about this summer's #digitaltechnology #internships. Ariel and Rohan tell us about the cool things they built at @Ginkgo!

https://t.co/xdaZWQHIR7

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This week on #ginkgobits, our Part 2 of our series about this summer's #digitaltechnology #internships. Himanshu, Arjijit, and Hunter tell us what they did at
@Ginkgo!

https://t.co/xtvkysVO2p

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This week on #ginkgobits, our #digitaltechnology #interns Roshida and Sean tell us about their summer at @Ginkgo and the cool things they have built!

https://t.co/HaeuljMdoA

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Today @Ginkgo announced a new partnership with @googlecloud to build a generative AI platform for engineering biology and for biosecurity.

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We’re working with @Google to teach AI to speak DNA.

Learn more: https://t.co/f1uxedTX2S

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This month on #ginkgobits, Sr. #InfoSec Engineer Alex writes about #redteaming. Check it out! https://t.co/fPPrY0DRSn

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This month on #ginkgobits is a followup to last month's post -- Even More Rapid #Data Retrieval using #rust! https://t.co/pHEpb6l2F0

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This month on #ginkgobits, we've got a really interesting blog post about rapidly retrieving data from really large files! #Bioinformatics https://t.co/hag0t3kMcD

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This month on #ginkgobits, Group Product Manager Jorge gives us his thoughts on #automation at @Ginkgo! https://t.co/FM3MG64fRe

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We end the year on #ginkgobits with an introduction to #matplotlib! Check it out! https://t.co/TqAtL21a0R #Python

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New #ginkgobits post! #Software engineer Ray tells us how his team tackles #techdebt https://t.co/0ZjUcBLKT9

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This week on #ginkgobits, we wrap up the #summer with our #interns Delight and Judah telling us about their experiences and what they did at @ginkgo! https://t.co/oeOfEkeWN9

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Speaking of intern projects, way to go @NathanAlam on the #React JSON Schema Form Builder (https://t.co/Usx8ZNOyNh) reaching >1,000 downloads per week on #NPM! Read all about his intern project from two years ago https://t.co/LnhHdX82jY

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This week on #ginkgobits, our #SoftwareEngineering #interns Ariel, Yasmine, and Evan tell us about the cool things they built at @Ginkgo this summer! https://t.co/QMTwvYzbEy

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This week on #ginkgobits, software engineer Zach tells us what to watch out for when running #Docker on #Apple Silicon! https://t.co/i3YaZkXmPD #m2 #applesilicon

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Yup.

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The 6 Stages of Debugging (below).. "That’s the programmer’s equivalent of the Kubler-Ross stages of grief.." -Steve Colwell

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We observe Juneteenth on Monday. Here is a little bit about it: https://t.co/34t81FKB4y

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This week on #GinkgoBits, #Software Engineer @yaoyuyang tells us about the benefits of integrating #Jira and #Gitlab!
https://t.co/G4FHrTnzwO

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@siberianpython We couldn't find them in the manuals for our aligners (bwa/bowtie/bowtie2)

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Today's surprise is that rewriting an awk pipe into a simple #python script actually sped up processing time significantly (~5x) and produced something massively more readable.