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Uber's Michelangelo vs. Netflix's Metaflow

  Uber's Michelangelo vs. Netflix's Metaflow Michelangelo Pain point Without michelangelo, each team at uber that uses ML (that’s all of them - every interaction with the ride or eats app involves ML) would need to build their own data pipelines, feature stores, training clusters, model storage, etc.  It would take each team copious amounts of time to maintain and improve their systems, and common patterns/best practices would be hard to learn.  In addition, the highest priority use cases (business critical, e.g. rider/driver matching) would themselves need to ensure they have enough compute/storage/engineering resources to operate (outages, scale peaks, etc.), which would results in organizational complexity and constant prioritization battles between managers/directors/etc. Solution Michelangelo provides a single platform that makes the most common and most business critical ML use cases simple and intuitive for builders to use, while still allowing self-serve extensibi...

Absolute Java 3rd Edition Solutions!

Hey new Programmers, I learned Java last summer by teaching myself with the help of Absolute Java 3rd Edition, and I got up to chapter 11 before beginning my CPSC degree at University of Calgary in September. I was very thorough, and I completed almost every one of the Programming Projects (except for a few trivial problems) up to Chapter 11. Now, those solutions have been made available on a new page on this blog! Look to the right sidebar to find the link, or click here .