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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...

Consensus: The Hard Kind

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You're on a team, undoubtedly.  You have been tasked with solving a customer problem and you have a design ready and waiting for review.  One team member reviewed an early version and asked for some tweaks, but after an iteration they agreed it was the optimal path forward.  You open it up to a wider audience for further review.  But then another team member pipes up... "This design doesn't work - it's just not possible with our current setup" Well, damn!  What do you want me to do?  Do I need to cycle through every team member and get them to give their feedback, iterate and incorporate it and then present it to everyone?  Even if I do that, by the time I get around the group, someone will disagree with the design again! Calm down, breathe - this is what it feels like to learn.  And what you've just experienced is what I like to call the 'Hard' version of Consensus. Every team is different in how they deal with this consensus problem, but if the ...