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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...

Coding Fun

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I was coding at work the other day and was having a great time. Things were moving fast, and no roadblocks were coming up. Then I asked myself : what's the difference between what I'm doing now and what I'm doing when I do when I'm not enjoying a coding session (other than the fact that I had no major roadblocks appearing)? The answer was pretty clear. I was writing tests first! It wasn't always easy; often it's difficult to think about how I should test a certain functionality when I haven't even designed a solution or written the method or section of code...but it usually pays off afterwards, when I know exactly what is required by the caller/user (should be in the test) and I've already come up with an interface for the functionality (designed by writing the test). After that, all that's left for me to worry about is solving the problem and turning that nasty red 'test failure' light to a bright, tangy green. Just the fact that green...

A quick reminder

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Not much to do with technology, but a helluva lot to do with progress. If you've got any goals in your life right now, you need to read this .