Reliable ML

Posted Oct 05, 2022 | Views 373

# Reliable ML

# Revenue

# Decision Making

SPEAKERS

Todd Underwood

Director of Engineering @ Google

Todd Underwood is a Director at Google and leads Machine Learning for Site Reliability Engineering Director. He is also Site Lead for Google’s Pittsburgh office. ML SRE teams build and scale internal and external ML services and are critical to almost every Product Area at Google.

Before working at Google, Todd held a variety of roles at Renesys. He was in charge of operations, security, and peering for Renesys’s Internet intelligence services that is now part of Oracle's Cloud service. He also did product work for some early social products that Renesys worked on. Before that Todd was Chief Technology Officer of Oso Grande, an independent Internet service provider (AS2901) in New Mexico.

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Niall Murphy

Co-founder & Consultant @ Stanza

Niall Murphy has been interested in Internet infrastructure since the mid-1990s. He has worked with all of the major cloud providers from their Dublin, Ireland offices - most recently at Microsoft, where he was global head of Azure Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). His books have sold approximately a quarter of a million copies world-wide, most notably the award-winning Site Reliability Engineering, and he is probably one of the few people in the world to hold degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Poetry Studies. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and two children.

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SUMMARY

By applying an SRE mindset to machine learning, authors and engineering professionals Cathy Chen, Kranti Parisa, Niall Richard Murphy, D. Sculley, Todd Underwood, and featured guest authors show you how to run an efficient and reliable ML system. Whether you want to increase revenue, optimize decision-making, solve problems, or understand and influence customer behavior, you'll learn how to perform day-to-day ML tasks while keeping the bigger picture in mind. (Book description from O'Reilly)

It was great that they wrote this book in the first place in a space that's new and lots of people are entering with a lot of questions and this book clarifies those questions. It was also great to have all of their experiences documented in this one book and there's a lot of value in putting them all in one place so that people can benefit from it.

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