2024
EPAM built a talk-to-your-data app for DIAL the previous year, using a semantic layer to turn questions into queries and charts.
“one of the apps we built as an example earlier, it was last year, uh, was like, talk to your data.”
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EPAM DIAL
8 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
The CodeMie team built an MCP server exposing its assistants so DIAL can orchestrate them as tools.
“Hey, code me, give me an MCP server for you, which is what they have done.”
Undated
EPAM's DIAL platform is open source.
“by the way, it is open source. You guys can also go look, you know, download and play with it”
Undated
DIAL began as a load-balancing, model-agnostic proxy that spreads requests across model deployments with usage limits.
“From day one, dial was a load balancing model agnostic proxy, right? So every model, every deployment has limits, you know, tokens per minute, tokens per day, whatever requests per minute.”
Undated
DIAL can log all prompts in an organization so they can be analyzed to see what problems teams are trying to solve.
“We can log everything that is prompted in the organization, we can do analysis on that separately, because that's very helpful to know what kind of problems your teams are trying to solve.”
Undated
Pavel Veller says DIAL is evolving to use MCP and runs at roughly twenty-some EPAM clients.
“Now it's evolving clearly towards what MCP can bring in, cause now you can connect a lot more things to it through MCP. So I think it's running at like 20 something clients by now.”
Undated
DIAL apps, which implement a streaming API that returns text plus interactive UI elements, predate MCP.
“We have dial apps, um, they predate MCP, but the idea is that you so dial itself has a contract, um, an API that you implement.”
Undated
EPAM aimed for talk-to-your-data to democratize analytics so users avoid waiting a week for a new Power BI report, but paused because it was hard to generalize.
“you can just come into dial and say, Hey, you know, show me this, this, this and this.”
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