Today on Next Level, host and Keyhole Chief Architect Zach Gardner talks to Jody Claggett, current Manager of Data Operations at Vail Health, life-long learner, data enthusiast, and (plot twist) culinary school graduate and former restauranteur. Jody and Zach walk through Jody’s career path, from tech support to manager (and all the steps in between). Key takeaways for devs include… …
GenAI in the Enterprise w/ Raj Shah, ML Engineer at Snowflake
Today’s episode of GenAI in the Enterprise features Raj Shah, a Machine Learning Engineer at Snowflake. Raj built his career talking to various companies and their data teams, showing them how #GenAI (and which tools) could help them reach their goals. Now at Snowflake, he gets to share Snowflake’s suite of #GenerativeAI tools, teaching them how to use them to …
Next Level with Matt Menzenski, Principal Data Engineer
Take your career to the “Next Level” with Zach Gardner, Chief Architect at Keyhole Software, featuring Matt Menzenski, Principal Data Engineer at PayIt. Matt shares his experiences coming from a non-traditional background into programming (starting in Slavic linguistic corpus analysis) for one of the largest providers in the US of software to municipalities. Matt gives his advice to the next …
Introduction to Web Apps with Next.js
In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to set up a simple Next.js web application. Next.js is a heavily opinionated JavaScript framework, in that it has a lot of conventions and recommended tools built into its design.
We’ll use Next.js version 14.2.2 to set up the groundwork for a simple web application. By “web application,” I mean an application that is designed primarily to collect input from a user in a web browser and return some output generated from that input.
Navi: A โCheatsheetโ CLI
The command line is a powerful tool in software development. Regardless of whether you are comfortable working within a shell or if you prefer a GUI, there are likely scenarios that still require you to open a terminal and type out some commands.
This should not surprise us โ many tools solely support Command-Line Interface (CLI) interaction โ but over time, the efforts required to keep track of each new commandโs syntax can add up. If youโre anything like me, you might memorize only the commands that you use most frequently, resigning yourself to searching through documentation for the rest whenever you need them….


