Issue #291 - The ML Engineer ??
Alejandro Saucedo
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This coming week I'll be in Berlin speaking at the WeAreDevelopers Summit 2024 with other incredible speakers such as StackOverflow CEO, Atlassian CTO, SAP CTO, Github CEO, Former Apple COO + many more! I'll be giving a talk on "The State of Production ML in 2024", if you're around come say hello ??!
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This week in Machine Learning:
Come say hello at the WeAreDevelopers Summit ?? !!
Notion shares their lessons learned scaling through their massive data growth, covering best practices building their org-wide data-lake: During their large-scale data journey Notion transitioned from a single Postgres instance to a sharded architecture and built an in-house data lake using S3, Kafka, Debezium, and Apache Hudi. This infrastructure was introduced to reduce costs and data ingestion times, whilst supporting update-heavy workloads and enabling advanced AI and Search features without fully replacing existing solutions like Snowflake and Fivetran.
Production use-cases of LLMs require new approaches to effectively introduce retrieval-augmented-generation - RouteLLM comes in as an alternative architecture to reduce the costs of deploying large language models by routing queries between high-performance/expensive models and smaller/cheaper ones based on query complexity. RouteLLM achieves significant cost savings (up to 85%) while maintaining up to 95% of the performance of the top models like GPT-4 by utilizing "preference data" and various machine learning techniques.
Goldman Sachs talks about the GenAI elephant in the room, pointing out the estimated ~$1tn AI capex spend from tech companies on GenAI and foundation models with the key need to see results: Goldman brings pragmatic insights on the opportunities and gaps in the AI gold rush, covering even the already-known supply constraints in AI chip production which is expected to lag with shortages beyond 2025. Even then, investment phases indicate immediate gains for companies like Nvidia producing, closley with infrastructure firms following - both which are bringing the "pick-axes in the gold rush". Even with that in mind, there is a stern warning on economic risks due to high valuations, highlighting the obvious on the remaining need to see substantial productivity gains from AI to show the potential across the S&P 500 and beyond.
Eugene Yan on how to effectively hire ML/AI engineers: A great resource covering best practices on MLOps recruitment, emphasising the importance of technical skills like software engineering, data literacy, and model evaluation, as well as non-technical traits such as handling ambiguity, influence and complexity. There are best practices from standard software interviews that can be leveraged, such as structured interviews using the STAR format, technical phone screens, and detailed debriefs to make informed decisions.
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Upcoming MLOps Events
The MLOps ecosystem continues to grow at break-neck speeds, making it ever harder for us as practitioners to stay up to date with relevant developments. A fantsatic way to keep on-top of relevant resources is through the great community and events that the MLOps and Production ML ecosystem offers. This is the reason why we have started curating a list of upcoming events in the space, which are outlined below.
Upcoming conferences where we're speaking:
Other upcoming MLOps conferences in 2024: ?
In case you missed our talks:
Open Source MLOps Tools
Check out the fast-growing ecosystem of production ML tools & frameworks at the github repository which has reached over 10,000 ? github stars. We are currently looking for more libraries to add - if you know of any that are not listed, please let us know or feel free to add a PR. Four featured libraries in the GPU acceleration space are outlined below.
? If you know of any open source and open community events that are not listed do give us a heads up so we can add them!
OSS: Policy & Guidelines
As AI systems become more prevalent in society, we face bigger and tougher societal challenges. We have seen a large number of resources that aim to takle these challenges in the form of AI Guidelines, Principles, Ethics Frameworks, etc, however there are so many resources it is hard to navigate. Because of this we started an Open Source initiative that aims to map the ecosystem to make it simpler to navigate. You can find multiple principles in the repo - some examples include the following:
If you know of any guidelines that are not in the "Awesome AI Guidelines" list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!
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Looking forward to hearing your talk!
? Infrastructure Engineer ? DevOps ? SRE ? MLOps ? AIOps ? Helping companies scale their platforms to an enterprise grade level
4 个月Your participation in the WeAreDevelopers Summit is commendable. The Machine Learning Ecosystem developments you've highlighted are intriguing and promising for the future of AI and technology advancement.