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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...

Grow Your Career, Be A Senior Engineer

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My personal experience with navigating a career in software engineering has been dotted by fits and starts.  9 years into my professional life I can look back and see what worked, what didn't, and why.  I want to share that knowledge so other young engineers can do more with their first 9 years than I did.  Plus it's just fun to reminisce and will help me visualize the next steps in my career. To be clear, the north star goal in my career is and has always been to learn and grow towards more positive impact on those I serve.  If you have the same or a similar goal, this article will be useful. I wrote up a simple formula which I think can help any aspiring engineers out there.  It can be used as a template for a career plan.  When you're thinking about how to get to the next level, make sure you're putting equal emphasis on all these categories.   1.) ACTION from you, despite imperfect information 2.) COWORKERS whom you respect 3.) MENTOR(s) inves...

Who I am

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Okay, so it's been a while since I started this blog, and maybe it's time I told all (3...lol) of you out there who I am. The question is: what should I tell you... Okay, so I like computers, video games and in my spare time I try to stay active e.g. going to the gym, jogging, sports, etc. ...which I don't do enough of. There's other stuff but let's start with the 1st 3. Computers The 'idea' that's changed life around the world more than anything else in the past century is computing. It is the current revolution, and it's more than a keyboard and screen, it's a good idea. I like good ideas. Video Games They let me relax, yet they're stressful. It's fun, yet it's frustrating. Whatever they are, they have an exciting future, and I also think they have great potential. Here's a Tedtalk about gaming. Although I don't think the ideas (or games) that Ms. McGonigal displays here are very far into...