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Discussing Databricks with Ming Chang from Raybeam (part of DEPT®)

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Conversation with Dirk-Jan Kubeflow (vs cloud native solutions like SageMaker)

Dirk-Jan Verdoorn - Data Scientist at Dept Agency

Kubeflow. (From the website:) The Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes. The Kubeflow project is dedicated to making deployments of machine learning (ML) workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable and scalable. Our goal is not to recreate other services, but to provide a straightforward way to deploy best-of-breed open-source systems for ML to diverse infrastructures. Anywhere you are running Kubernetes, you should be able to run Kubeflow.

TensorFlow Extended (TFX). If using TensorFlow with Kubeflow, combine with TFX for maximum power. (From the website:) TensorFlow Extended (TFX) is an end-to-end platform for deploying production ML pipelines. When you're ready to move your models from research to production, use TFX to create and manage a production pipeline.

Alternatives:

• Airflow
• MLflow

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Chatting with co-workers about the role of DevOps in a machine learning engineer's life

Expert coworkers at Dept

• Matt Merrill - Principal Software Developer
• Jirawat Uttayaya - DevOps Lead
• The Ship It Podcast (where Matt features often)

Devops tools

• Terraform
• Ansible

Pictures (funny and serious)

• Which AWS container service should I use?
• A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
• Public Cloud Services Comparison
• Killed by Google
• aCloudGuru AWS curriculum

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(Optional episode) just showcasing a cool application using machine learning

Dept uses Descript for some of their podcasting. I'm using it like a maniac, I think they're surprised at how into it I am. Check out the transcript & see how it performed.

• Descript
• The Ship It Podcast How to ship software, from the front lines. We talk with software developers about their craft, developer tools, developer productivity and what makes software development awesome. Hosted by your friends at Rocket Insights. AKA shipit.io
• Brandbeats Podcast by BASIC An agency podcast with views on design, technology, art, and culture. Explore the new microsite at www.brandbeats.basicagency.com

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Show notes: ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-17

Developing on AWS first (SageMaker or other)

Consider developing against AWS as your local development environment, rather than only your cloud deployment environment. Solutions:

1. Stick to AWS Cloud IDEs (Lambda, SageMaker Studio, Cloud9

2. Connect to deployed infrastructure via Client VPN

   • Terraform example
   • YouTube tutorial
   • Creating the keys
3. LocalStack

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform
• CDK
• Serverless

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Part 2 of deploying your ML models to the cloud with SageMaker (MLOps)

MLOps is deploying your ML models to the cloud. See MadeWithML for an overview of tooling (also generally a great ML educational run-down.)

• SageMaker
• Jumpstart
• Deploy
• Pipelines
• Monitor
• Kubernetes
• Neo

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Show notes Part 1 of deploying your ML models to the cloud with SageMaker (MLOps)

MLOps is deploying your ML models to the cloud. See MadeWithML for an overview of tooling (also generally a great ML educational run-down.)

• SageMaker
• DataWrangler
• Feature Store
• Ground Truth
• Clarify
• Studio
• AutoPilot
• Debugger
• Distributed Training

And I forgot to mention JumpStart, I'll mention next time.

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Server-side ML. Training & hosting for inference, with a goal towards serverless. AWS SageMaker, Batch, Lambda, EFS, Cortex.dev

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Client, server, database, etc.

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Use Docker for env setup on localhost & cloud deployment, instead of pyenv / Anaconda. I recommend Windows for your desktop.

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Show notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/32.

L1/L2 norm, Manhattan, Euclidean, cosine distances, dot product

Normed distances link

• A norm is a function that assigns a strictly positive length to each vector in a vector space. link
• Minkowski is generalized. p_root(sum(xi-yi)^p). "p" = ? (1, 2, ..) for below.
• L1: Manhattan/city-block/taxicab. abs(x2-x1)+abs(y2-y1). Grid-like distance (triangle legs). Preferred for high-dim space.
• L2: Euclidean. sqrt((x2-x1)^2+(y2-y1)^2. sqrt(dot-product). Straight-line distance; min distance (Pythagorean triangle edge)
• Others: Mahalanobis, Chebyshev (p=inf), etc

Dot product

• A type of inner product. Outer-product: lies outside the involved planes. Inner-product: dot product lies inside the planes/axes involved link. Dot product: inner product on a finite dimensional Euclidean space link

Cosine (normalized dot)