Right before we hit record, Demetrios let D. know how grateful we were for him to come on the pod and share his wisdom with us especially considering he hasn't been doing many appearances as of late. He responded with this "I just got tired of talking about this stuff" That's right, the Godfather of MLOps since 2015 has been talking about the need for attention on the Ops side of things. Like an oracle, he revealed to us a glimpse of the future then stepped out of the limelight to move on to the next hard problem while we all continue to learn from his papers written all those years ago. So we asked him, "what's changed since he wrote these papers?" His answer, "well to start, now we have an MLOps community." This is easily the most influential person in MLOps that we have had the pleasure of interviewing. Aside from being an A+ human, he was a wealth of information. I cannot stress enough, go check out this interview. Here are the links to D. Sculley's Papers: ML Test Score, Machine Learning, Google Scholar.