This week I spoke with Emmanuel Ameisen, a data scientist and ML engineer currently based at Stripe. Emmanuel also wrote an excellent O'Reilly book called 'Building Machine Learning Powered Applications', a book I find myself often returning to for inspiration and that I was pleased to get the chance to reread in preparation for our discussion.
As we outgrew our initial template Github Action workflow, here's the five things we added to our Github Action arsenal to fit our growing needs: Caching, Reusable Workflows, Composite Actions, Comment Triggers and Concurrency Management.
An exploration of some frameworks created by Google and Microsoft that can help think through improvements to how machine learning models get developed and deployed in production.
This week I spoke with Johnny Greco, a data scientist working at Radiology Partners. Johnny transitioned into his current work from a career as an academic — working in astronomy — where also worked in the open-source space to build a really interesting synthetic image data project.
Connecting model training pipelines to deploying models in production is regarded as a difficult milestone on the way to achieving Machine Learning operations maturity for an organization. ZenML rises to the challenge and introduces a novel approach to continuous model deployment that renders a smooth transition from experimentation to production.
We recently reworked a number of parts of our CLI interface. Here are some quick wins we implemented along the way that can help you improve how users interact with your CLI via the popular open-source library, rich.
Tristan and Alex discuss where machine learning and AI are headed in terms of the tooling landscape. Tristan outlined a vision of a higher abstraction level, something he's working on making a reality as CEO at Continual.
Use MLflow Tracking to automatically ensure that you're capturing data, metadata and hyperparameters that contribute to how you are training your models. Use the UI interface to compare experiments, and let ZenML handle the boring setup details.
A dive into Python type hinting, how implementing them makes your codebase more robust, and some suggestions on how you might approach adding them into a large legacy codebase.
Mohan and Alex discuss neurosymbolic AI and the implications of a shift towards that as a core paradigm for production AI systems. In particular, we discuss the practical consequences of such a shift, both in terms of team composition as well as infrastructure requirements.
ZenML recently added an integration with Evidently, an open-source tool that allows you to monitor your data for drift (among other things). This post showcases the integration alongside some of the other parts of Evidently that we like.
We discuss how to monitor models in production, and how it helps you in the long-run.
