why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Disclosure
Netflix's Metaflow is not intended to be a workflow orchestrator
“Metaflow does not intend to be a workflow orchestrator.”
Disclosure
Netflix's machine learning infrastructure team consists of six engineers
“My team has six engineers right now.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Netflix uses S3, Spark, Presto, and Snowflake for data querying
“We use SG as so like the storage layer for our data warehouse, and we use Spark, Presto, Snowflake as our query engines.”
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Netflix uses open-source Titus for container orchestration
“In terms of compute our container orchestration platform is called Titus, which is yet another open source project.”
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Netflix drives ETL and ML pipelines using internal scheduler Meson
“We have a workflow scheduler called Mason. Mason, which is a program scheduler that's being used to drive all of our ETL as well as machine learning pipelines.”
Disclosure
Netflix data scientists are free to choose their own tools
“Netflix has this really interesting corporate culture of freedom and responsibility. Which means that our data science teams, they are essentially free to use whatever tooling that works best for them.”
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Most Metaflow users adopt it to avoid building ML infra teams
“A big majority of our users are essentially companies who have made serious investments in machine learning. But for one reason or the other, they don't want to invest too much into machine learning infrastructure per se.”