For decades, machine learning engineers have struggled to manage and automate ML pipelines in order to speed up model deployment in real business applications. Similar to how software developers leverage DevOps to increase efficiency and speed up release velocity, MLOps streamlines the ML development lifecycle by delivering automation, enabling collaboration across ML teams and improving the quality of ML models in production while addressing business requirements.
If software's been eating the world for the past twenty years, it's safe to say machine learning has been eating it for the past five. But what exactly is machine learning? Why should a web developer care? This article by Julie Kent answers these questions. I don't have kids yet, but when I do, I want them to learn two things: Whether or not you believe that the singularity is near, there's no denying that the world runs on data.