Watching models in production in 2021

38 sessions

PodcastMost Underrated MLOps TopicsMarian Ignev, CloudStrap.io & SashiDo.io · 53:56 · Jan 2021 · 382 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimMarian Ignev says that simple deployment examples often omit monitoring, data drift, and concept drift.18:28

PodcastLessons Learned From Hosting the ML Engineered PodcastCharlie You, Workday · 1:04:21 · Jan 2021 · 231 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimMachine learning projects require managing data, model life cycles, data drift and monitoring in addition to training and shipping models.7:23

MeetupHow Explainable AI is Critical to Building Responsible AIKrishna Gade, Fiddler AI · 56:56 · Mar 2021 · 389 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimResponsible AI requires processes covering training-data assessment, model validation, monitoring, and debugging.13:01

MeetupProduct Management in Machine LearningLaszlo Sragner, Hypergolic · 57:52 · Mar 2021 · 942 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimLaszlo Sragner says monitoring, evaluation, and labeling are tightly coupled and should happen as one continuous process for machine learning models.9:51

MeetupHow to Avoid Suffering in MLOps/Data Engineering RoleIgor Lushchyk, Adyen · 57:52 · Mar 2021 · 531 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimIgor Lushchyk says model monitoring includes both infrastructure and service metrics and monitoring the model's inference performance.46:12

MeetupOperationalizing Machine Learning at a Large Financial InstitutionDaniel Stahl, Regions Bank · 1:04:58 · Mar 2021 · 662 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimDaniel Stahl identifies training, scoring, and monitoring as the three core pipelines needed across model types and architectures.10:52

PodcastThe Godfather Of MLOpsD. Sculley, Google · 51:25 · Mar 2021 · 2,912 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions
MeetupA Missing Link in the ML Infrastructure StackJosh Tobin, Stealth-Stage Startup · 56:03 · Mar 2021 · 736 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimFull Stack Deep Learning was created to teach practitioners about production machine learning topics that typical machine learning classes did not cover, including scoping, testing, debugging, deployment, and monitoring.6:26

MeetupModel Watching: Keeping Your Project in ProductionBen Wilson, Databricks · 53:08 · Apr 2021 · 615 views · MLOps Meetup

Pushed backBen Wilson argues that the tools used for drift monitoring matter less than knowing which kinds of drift and statistical behavior to monitor.18:57

PodcastMLOps InvestmentsSarah Catanzaro, Amplify Partners · 46:18 · Apr 2021 · 1,286 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

Pushed backSarah Catanzaro says industry and academia both contribute to the gap between research and practical ML because industry rarely provides realistic structured-data benchmarks and context.43:06

MeetupDeploying Machine Learning Models at Scale in CloudVishnu Prathish, Innovyze · 57:53 · Apr 2021 · 460 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimThe team uses SageMaker and AWS as building blocks for a pipeline that covers feature engineering, cleaning, analysis, continuous retraining, CI/CD promotion, checks between environments, and production monitoring.10:50

PodcastLuigi in Production Part 2Luigi Patruno, 2U · 58:54 · Apr 2021 · 798 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimLuigi Patruno's team moved several models from development notebooks into production processes with data validation, drift monitoring, and ongoing monitoring.8:02

MeetupFrom Idea to Production MLLex Beattie, Spotify · 53:18 · May 2021 · 536 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimMichael Munn says teams should define business goals and evaluation metrics early so model development does not become an unproductive exercise in complexity.10:51

PodcastScaling AI in ProductionSrivatsan Srinivasan, AIEngineering · 51:56 · May 2021 · 1,723 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimSrivatsan Srinivasan says machine-learning algorithms make up only a small part of the total machine-learning work, which also includes data collection, deployment, monitoring, pipelines, feature engineering, and feature stores.1:45

MeetupOperationalize Machine Learning at Scale with MLOpsChristopher Bergh, DataKitchen · 57:50 · May 2021 · 408 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimChristopher Bergh says source code should be versioned, production systems should be monitored, development systems should be tested, and infrastructure should be scriptable, testable, and deployable.14:06

PodcastModel Performance Monitoring and Why You Need it YesterdayAmit Paka, Fiddler AI · 1:06:51 · Jun 2021 · 1,107 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimModel performance management covers visibility across the entire model life cycle, including training, validation, deployment, monitoring, and analysis.31:52

MeetupPractical MLOps Part 2Alfredo Deza, Author and Speaker · 1:01:38 · Jun 2021 · 756 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimAlfredo Deza learned Bash scripting after Carlos Cole encouraged him to write basic server-monitoring code and offered to answer questions for 15 minutes each day.6:42

PodcastMaturing Machine Learning in EnterpriseKyle Gallatin, Etsy · 47:09 · Jun 2021 · 465 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimKyle Gallatin says machine learning has moved from isolated proof-of-concept data science projects toward MLOps, and that governance, observability, and visibility are the next stage.10:13

MeetupEngineering MLOpsEmmanuel Raj, TietoEvry · 51:55 · Jun 2021 · 1,081 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimA robust CI/CD pipeline should treat the pipeline rather than the model as the final product and should include quality assurance, testing, release strategies, governance, and monitoring.12:35

How Pinterest Powers Image SimilarityShaji Chennan Kunnummel, Pinterest · 57:32 · Jun 2021 · 2,340 views · ML System Design Reviews

ClaimPinterest focuses on building machine-learning systems that can be productionized, monitored, debugged, explained, and rolled back when signals or models cause problems.4:25

PodcastLearning from 150 Successful ML-enabled Products at Booking.comPablo Estevez, Booking.com · 56:32 · Jul 2021 · 890 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimPablo Estevez says model monitoring should consider feature drift, concept drift, delayed feedback, and response distributions rather than only comparing predictions with outcomes.26:20

MeetupBuilding ML Blocks with Kubeflow Orchestration with Feature StoreAniruddha Choudhury, Publicis Sapient · 1:26:03 · Jul 2021 · 2,160 views · MLOps Meetup

Pushed backAniruddha Choudhury distinguishes a feature store from a SQL database by emphasizing low-latency online retrieval, feature consistency, and support for batch and streaming ingestion.53:23

MeetupBuilding an ML Platform from Scratch: Live Coding Session - Part 2Alon Gubkin, Aporia · 1:12:53 · Aug 2021 · 1,331 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimAlon Gubkin says the session will cover training orchestration and model monitoring.4:23

mlctl and Hydrosphere Open Source MLOps Libraries DemoAlex Chung, Intuit · 36:24 · Aug 2021 · 137 views · Social Good Tech Working Group 2021

Pushed backAlex Chung questioned whether Hydrosphere should continue serving models or focus on monitoring and integration with existing tools, and recommended the latter focus.31:41

PodcastMachine Learning SRENiall Murphy, Microsoft Azure · 48:29 · Sept 2021 · 1,361 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimSLOs and production monitoring for machine learning are still developing because the SRE community lacks mature ways to compare different systems and define what good means across them.6:36

PodcastA Few Learnings from Building a Bootstrapped MLOps Services StartupSoumanta Das, Yugen.ai · 52:07 · Sept 2021 · 514 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimFor companies moving from one to ten, a strong engineering culture, testing, monitoring and a proper MLOps process become increasingly important.10:17

MeetupDoing MLOpsNoah Gift, Pragmatic AI Labs · 1:01:22 · Oct 2021 · 1,479 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimMLOps is a feedback loop involving source control, testing, infrastructure as code, deployment, monitoring, and model retraining.12:05

MeetupEnd to End MLOps BasicsRaviraja Ganta, Enterpret · 57:59 · Oct 2021 · 7,403 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimThe MLOps lifecycle includes model development, training operationalization, continuous training, model deployment, prediction serving, continuous monitoring, and data and model management.5:57

PodcastLinkedIn Job RecommendationsAlexandre Patry, LinkedIn · 51:41 · Oct 2021 · 614 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimLinkedIn formed a team of linguists to refine the definition of a bad job recommendation and evaluate recommendation quality across product surfaces.23:23

MeetupMLOps at Volvo CarsLeonard Aukea, Volvo Cars · 57:31 · Nov 2021 · 2,610 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimLeonard Aukea says machine-learning monitoring needs to be easier for data scientists because configuring custom metrics through Prometheus and Grafana requires too many awkward steps.19:26

Reading groupImpact of SWE in ML ProjectsLaszlo Sragner & Tim Blazina · 55:42 · Nov 2021 · 321 views · MLOps Reading Group

Pushed backLaszlo Sragner emphasized that monitoring and model-performance analysis cannot generally be fully codified, while another participant argued for integrating software, statistical, behavioral, and acceptance tests into one workflow.40:24

MeetupModel Monitoring: The Million Dollar Problem · 52:55 · Nov 2021 · 1,845 views · MLOps Meetup

Pushed backThe presenters did not identify one universally best monitoring tool; they said the choice depends largely on the use case, ecosystem, integrations, and personal preference.49:40

MeetupThe Not So Talked About Reasons Model Monitoring FailsOren Razon, Superwise · 56:03 · Dec 2021 · 606 views · MLOps Meetup

Pushed backOren Razon disputes treating model observability as only a data scientist's responsibility.32:58

PodcastML Stepping Stones: Challenges & Opportunities for CompaniesJohn Crousse · 47:47 · Dec 2021 · 164 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimJohn Crousse says not every feature containing machine learning has a business case for constant monitoring or incremental improvement.15:47

Reading groupThe ML Test ScoreSkylar Payne · 57:48 · Dec 2021 · 453 views · MLOps Reading Group

Pushed backSkylar Payne disputed the idea that monitoring products can generally infer useful thresholds automatically without iteration.29:00

MeetupML Drift: How to Identify Issues Before They Become ProblemsAmy Hodler, Fiddler AI · 56:58 · Dec 2021 · 1,654 views · MLOps Meetup

Pushed backAmy Hodler separates concept drift from data drift, while noting that some people consider concept drift a type of data drift.11:11

Podcast2022 Predictions for MLOps and the IndustryReah Miyara, Arize AI · 36:22 · Dec 2021 · 665 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimReah Miyara says machine-learning observability can proactively identify problems, support root-cause analysis, and help organizations troubleshoot and improve models.9:05

MeetupSetting up an ML Platform on GCP: Lessons LearnedMefta Sadat, Loblaw Digital · 39:54 · Dec 2021 · 729 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimCloud Composer provided scheduled pipeline execution, retries, alerting, and improved pipeline resilience and observability.19:49