Martin Seibert

I love notebooks, and Visual Studio Code made them much better, but after using Zerve, they feel outdated. Zerve is a new web-based IDE. It's block-based like a notebook but follows a different philosophy, and the experience is much different. It's not a fork of Jupyter, and it's not an improvement. It's a completely reimagined experience. This comes with an important advantage: Zerve allows teams to collaborate on the same project without breaking each other's work. This is one of Jupiter's Achilles heels. Zerve's architecture solved it from the ground up. The team sponsored this post and gave me early access to the tool to try it. I imported some of my notebooks and reproduced some common scenarios I frequently use. I feel this can change how data scientists and machine learning practitioners write code. Here are a few notes: 1. It's web-based, so you can access your work anywhere. 2. Collaboration is a first-class citizen. 3. You can deploy your code without going anywhere. 4. It promotes code modularity by using blocks. 5. You can use multiple languages together. 6. You can run code blocks in parallel. Zerve organizes your code as a DAG. Each block inherits the state of every block before it. Everything runs in a serverless architecture. The tool just came out, so we don't know how the community will use it. It's free. You can start right now by visiting hubs.ly/Q02hBzgs0. I can't wait for more people to try it and share what they think!