MLOps community meetup #44! Last Wednesday, we talked to Savin Goyal, Tech lead for the ML Infra team at Netflix.

// Abstract:
In this conversation, Savin talked about some of the challenges encountered and choices made by the Netflix ML Infrastructure team while developing tooling for data scientists.

// Bio:
Savin is an engineer on the ML Infrastructure team at Netflix. He focuses on building generalizable infrastructure to accelerate the impact of data science at Netflix.

// Other links to check on Savin:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/opml20/presentation/cepoi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lakPlz8GJcA&ab_channel=RConsortium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oMZAS9qfrE&ab_channel=AnalyticsIndiaMagazine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyWirT279tY&ab_channel=FunctionalTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkRJ24Q0E-k&ab_channel=Matroid

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Timestamps:
[00:00] Background of Savin Goyal
[02:41] Breakdown of Metaflow
[05:44] In the stack, where does Metaflow stand?
[13:23] Where does Metaflow start in Runway Project?
[15:27] What tools or storage does Netflix use for DataOps, ie: the front-end management of data sets and how does that integrate with Metaflow? [18:56] Recommender Systems: Can you explain the other areas that you're using Machine Learning?
[22:27] What do you feel is the hardest part of building an operating  Machine Learning workflow? [28:45] 3 Pillars: Reproducibility, Scalability, Usability.
[36:05] You give so much power to people. How do you keep them from going overboard?
[37:47] Can you explain this Pillar of Usability?
[41:09] Road-based access control has been coming up a lot recently. Does Metaflow do something specific for that?
[44:49] What are some learnings that come across that you didn't have since you open-sourced when you were working at Netflix?
[48:10] What kind of trends you have been seeing? Where do you feel like the market is going?
[50:33] Have you seen some companies really interested in Metaflow? How have you been seeing them combine other tools that are out there?