Defining clear roles and boundaries in workflow orchestration systems ensures consistent performance in DevOps.
Transitioning towards building Observability AI solutions simplifies post-coding operations for developers.
Observability AI consolidates metrics, traces, logs, and events to provide actionable insights for issue resolution in complex systems.
Deep dives
Defining Clear Roles and Interfaces for Workflow Orchestration Systems
Emphasizing on the importance of defining clear roles and boundaries in workflow orchestration systems to ensure consistent performance. The focus is on achieving high success rates in task execution rather than sporadic successes. The goal is to optimize the system to work reliably nine out of ten times, tackling the challenge of translating high success rates into scalable and efficient operation of agentic workflows.
Evolution from DeepRacer to NLP and the Launch of Flip AI
Transitioning from working on DeepRacer projects to venturing into Natural Language Processing (NLP) due to evolving trends in the field. The shift towards building Flip AI as an Observability AI company aimed at addressing the challenges of maintaining service availability and reliability. The genesis of Flip AI stems from addressing operational pain points post software development, focusing on building solutions that simplify post-coding operations for developers.
Observability AI for DevOps and IT Systems
Introducing Observability AI as a solution for DevOps and IT teams to streamline the management of complex systems. The platform analyzes metrics, traces, logs, and events to provide actionable insights when system issues arise. By consolidating and interpreting diverse data sources, it offers a clear understanding of system health and performance, enabling swift and accurate issue resolution in complex infrastructures.
Training Data and Unique Approach to DevOps-focused LLM
Discussing the training data involving log data and various modalities such as metrics, traces, and code to build a Domain-specific Language Model (LLM) tailored for DevOps operations. Emphasizing the importance of curated, expert-labeled data sets in specific domains to enhance the LLM's understanding of DevOps-specific patterns and issues for accurate analysis and problem-solving.
Challenges and Solutions in AI Observability
Navigating the complexity of integrating time series data with Language Language Models (LLMs) for effective system monitoring and issue diagnosis. Describing the challenges faced in training LLMs to interpret and process diverse data modalities, such as logging, metrics, and events for comprehensive system analysis. Highlighting a unique hybrid approach combining expert-based models with transformer architectures to optimize data interpretation and system understanding for improved observability.
Today we're joined by Sunil Mallya, CTO and co-founder of Flip AI. We discuss Flip’s incident debugging system for DevOps, which was built using a custom mixture of experts (MoE) large language model (LLM) trained on a novel "CoMELT" observability dataset which combines traditional MELT data—metrics, events, logs, and traces—with code to efficiently identify root failure causes in complex software systems. We discuss the challenges of integrating time-series data with LLMs and their multi-decoder architecture designed for this purpose. Sunil describes their system's agent-based design, focusing on clear roles and boundaries to ensure reliability. We examine their "chaos gym," a reinforcement learning environment used for testing and improving the system's robustness. Finally, we discuss the practical considerations of deploying such a system at scale in diverse environments and much more.