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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...

My experience with Udacity

Last week I finished a free online course from Udacity.com (google it if you're unfamiliar - it's frickin' bomb!)  So I thought I'd write a post about my experience. SO good.  I learned python, google app engine and how to create my own website....though this time I'll retain it a little longer.  The lectures are given in video format, and they are so well edited that if you really like software, you won't even realize you're taking a course - it'll feel like entertainment!  Until you get to the assignments of course - that's where the real learning comes.  They start off riDICulously easy, at least for anyone who's written code before, and they slowly get a bit harder, though the only issues with completing them you'll have are with debugging weird nuances of GAE....you don't even need to know python to start, because everything you need is usually the first link in a google search result page. The best part is that it's all FREE...

TryRuby today!

Evening code fans. I'm making some progress on a software system that I'm building at work, and I've started to enjoy the process of finding a problem, creating a solution, and writing code to represent what I've come up with. But now I wanna try something new... I've been hearing a lot about Ruby on Rails in recent times, and I'm highly interested in it at this point. For those of you who don't know, Ruby is an object oriented programming language, but it's different from Java and C# in that it's a scripting language, so it doesn't get compiled down to machine code before it's run. "Rails" is a framework written for the Ruby language that makes it ridiculously easy to create websites in a Model-View-Controller sorta way. Just to get a basic web server up and running requires only 2 super simple commands on the command line! A Rails webpage differs from ASP.NET MVC (the stuff I'm using at work) in that it doesn't r...