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Originally posted 4\u00a0February\u00a0at 13:10:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It was down to the wire in the first SundaySky\u00a0DevJam of 2016. As the red-eyed teams were polishing up their demo presentations\u00a0leading up to the deadline, it was clear that we were all in store\u00a0to be wow’ed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of us had a more successful night than others\u00a0(… success = grabbing a little shut-eye… )\u00a0but there was\u00a0not one single team that did not learn and teach us all something new about the technology and the business. It\u00a0was\u00a0also clear that during this hackathon, we had\u00a0built a set of tools that will no doubt be adopted\u00a0and put to work immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, the voting process commences. Since SundaySky is an international company, we take\u00a0the next few days and present our results from the last\u00a024 hours to every employee\u00a0at SundaySky.<\/p>\n

At 11:00 AM, all 10 teams presented their wares to the DevJam participants. Apart from some great demos, they showed their capacity to entertain even after a sleepless night. Out of the 10 teams we had seven self-proclaimed successes and three partial successes. Now, it is time for the popular vote to have its say. Stay tuned for the results!<\/p>\n

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Originally posted 4\u00a0February\u00a0at\u00a001:07:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It’s 1 AM, and things are just starting to heat up. The\u00a0office\u00a0is buzzing with activity and people are in high spirits as teams\u00a0continue to design code and implement. Late night pizza just arrived and energy is at an all-time high. In fact,\u00a0one\u00a0team’s inner animals have emerged. Err, make that\u00a0animal\u00a0costumes:<\/p>\n

They know how to DevJam. The animal onesie gang: Ifat, Meshi, Shir & Yael<\/em><\/p>\n

We caught up with Daphna Cherkassky, one of our R&D directors at SundaySky, to hear what she is doing…\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n

Me:\u00a0Hey Daphna, what’s happening?
\nDaphna:\u00a0I am jammin’\u00a0away!<\/p>\n

Me: What are you working on\u00a0in 24 hours?
\nDaphna:\u00a0We are building some very cool cloud technology that will make our personalized\u00a0videos render faster. It has to do with advanced machine learning technology that will cause better resource distribution over our rendering farms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0And how’s it going so far?
\nDaphna:\u00a0Super exciting! We gathered data from our big data environment and built a simulator for testing. We are on track for having something great to show!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0Anything else\u00a0to add?
\nDaphna:\u00a0I want to know where everybody got those cool onesies!<\/p>\n

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Originally posted\u00a03 February at\u00a020:17:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SundaySky has generated more more than 500\u00a0million SmartVideos since 2011<\/a>. Each video rendered\u00a0and subsequent view generates thousands of data points into our\u00a0data environment, which our data scientists use in order to optimize, tweak and refine every aspect of\u00a0our\u00a0product.<\/p>\n

Throughout\u00a0this DevJam hackathon, some of the teams are working to add\u00a0more layers of artificial intelligence to optimize, enrich and streamline the end customer\u00a0experience while other teams are adding different aspects of machine learning in order to achieve several important goals:\u00a0<\/p>\n