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As organizations embrace the potential of data science and machine learning (ML), they face the huge challenge of operationalizing these processes in their technical environments and picking the right investments at the right times according to their strategic objectives.

All the buzz and hype surrounding ‘big data’ has created a major misconception: that the existence of data alone can provide a company with endless actionable insights and help to power decision making.

If you’re a data professional, you’ve probably already heard about Git, and chances are that somebody has told you that it’s only for software developers, and as a data professional, it’s not something you should care about.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving as it is used in a growing number of applications across business and society. The majority of AI research is, of course, dominated by computer science and the focus on i) developing more innovative algorithms and ii) the design of processors and storage needed for different applications. 

By leveraging the capabilities of AI and ML, tech innovators and research institutions are making new materials, discovering new drugs, detecting fraud, protecting crops, and more. In our daily lives, we’re also regularly facing AI algorithms—from email filters and personalized music suggestions, there are very few areas in our lives today that hasn’t been touched by AI and ML, and this has all been made possible by data. 

Machine learning (ML) teams are great at creating models that represent and predict real-world data, but effectively deploying these models is something that’s more akin to an art form than a science.

Unstructured data can contain a huge amount of useful information. However, due to the complexities that can exist in processing and analyzing it, it’s often the case that practitioners avoid spending extra time and effort venturing outside of their comfort zones—i.e., outside of structured datasets—to analyze these unstructured goldmines. 

In November 2018, Ville Tuulos, a machine learning infrastructure architect, was the very first person to publicly dissect and discuss the Netflix machine learning infrastructure at the annual ‘QCon’ software development conference held in San Francisco.

Just like human beings require a specific environment to survive and thrive, so too does software.

Albert Einstein once famously said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

Developing successful machine learning projects requires a huge variety of expertise. It’s no longer the case that teams are made up of multitalented people with a do-it-all remit.

Two things form the foundations of an AI system: code and data. Both components play an important role in the development of robust architectures and systems.

Today’s ML teams are highly specialized and multi-disciplined. They consist of people from all walks of life, educational backgrounds, and different skillsets.

Dependency management is the act of managing all the external bits and pieces that your project needs. When it works, you don’t even know it’s there. On the flip side, you will know if it fails.

It is becoming increasingly common for DevOps methodologies to find their way into MLOps as the field continues to mature.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at a rapid pace. It is something that we have dreamed of as far back as the 1950s and possibly even earlier, but today, AI is embedded into our everyday lives.

In 2022, we are well past the point of proving the value of machine learning; it is something that has taken the IT space by storm as a truly transformative innovation.

In our previous reinforcement learning blog post, we explored why reinforcement learning is an exciting field in AI and machine learning.

Have you ever trained a pet to do something and rewarded it when it gets it right? This is known as reinforcement learning...

Although phrases like “data is an asset” and “data is the new oil” are arguably corporate clichés, they are accurate. As businesses continue to digitize and derive real value from data, the importance of it to them grows; it becomes part of their DNA.

The performance of a machine learning model, particularly deep learning models, depends on both the quality and quantity of available training data.

AI is no longer the future—it’s here. In our pockets, in our houses, in our cars.

Data is the new oil, as the famous saying goes. It is no wonder then that so many organizations are manufacturing their own digital fuel in the form of synthetic data, which is both cheap to produce and very effective at training machine learning (ML) models.

In 2015, Google released its famous machine learning (ML) paper, Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems.

With so many great podcasts out there though, there’s no reason why you can’t sub out your regular playlist for something a little more educational and insightful while you hit the gym or drive to work.

If you have been paying attention to the latest developments in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) over the last few years, you will already be familiar with Natural Language Processing (NLP), largely in part due to the development of burgeoning transformer models—and we’re not talking about the popular shape-shifting cartoon robots.

If you have been keeping up with your reading, you have probably the term ‘MLOps’ and other variants such as ‘ModelOps’ and ‘AIOps’ begin to pop up more frequently.

In a few hundred years, when people look back on this point in history, the emergence of AI and machine learning (ML) will be viewed as a significant milestone that changed the world.

Machine learning (ML) models are almost always developed in an offline setting, but they must be deployed into a production environment in order to learn from live data and deliver value. 

Big data is accelerating at such a rapid pace that it’s leading to massive amounts of innovation in emerging tech, particularly in applications that involve AI and machine learning (ML).

On this blog post we will cover how can simplify model training and deployment by using Qwak.

The article describes the stages involved in productionizing machine learning models, typical architectural patterns used, and the challenges involved in doing it.

A machine learning model is only as good as the data that it is trained with. Or to be more precise, it can only be as good as the features that have been built into it. We all know that. 

Deploying a machine learning model is way different than deployments of any other kind of software.Because machine learning models learn general rules from specific examples, we are never sure how they will behave in production. Of course, proper training set preparation diminishes the risk. Nevertheless, we can always be surprised by the results.To mitigate the problems, typically, we rollout machine learning models in three deployment stages

Building a machine learning model is hard. Deploying it is even harder. Running experiments, writing code for production, integrating with infrastructure, running ongoing tests, and avoiding training-serving skew – none of this is easy.

If you have decided to implement machine learning into your app or product and are exploring your options, you have probably come across terms like ‘online machine learning’ and ‘batch learning’ – but what exactly do these terms mean and why do they matter?

Automation exists in machine learning, but this doesn’t mean that machine learning engineers will be automated. Here's why they needn't worry...

“Big data” has been around for more than a decade, and much has been done to adapt the tech stack; however, getting value from big data is complicated.

In this article, we will show you how to implement a build system that retrieves the training data, trains the model, and creates a Docker container with a REST service generating the model predictions. Our model will perform a well-known task of predicting whether a Titanic passenger survives or dies.

This blog post covers the main differences between DevOps and MLOps, as well as the main challenges that MLOps build systems should solve.

Qwak now supports deploying machine learning (ML) models with event-driven streaming architecture using Apache Kafka to support high-throughput predictions.

Qwak now supports machine learning models feedback tracking.

Qwak Feature Store now supports Snowflake as data source

Qwak Feature Store now supports MongoDB as data source