Riot Games deployed machine learning models using Apache Airflow
Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) · Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy · Jan 23, 2025 · at 8:50
Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) illustrates the overlap between data engineering and machine learning engineering tools.
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“One of the teams at Riot Games was like deploying their ML models and they were using Airflow.”
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