You’ve deployed a message queue in Pub/Sub, congrats! Now you want to analyze this data, so you’ve decided to move it into a data lake or warehouse. You’ve been using Big query and followed the google docs to get it working via the UI. Now it’s time to turn it…

ETL doesn’t cover our modern data needs — Every morning, most of us start our day by checking our phones. We catch up on what’s happening the world, chat with friends and family and watch a couple cat videos. All these activities require dozens of things to happen in the background, including curating and loading the data that…

How to maker your programs modular — So you read some tutorials on building a CLI in python. You downloaded Click, created some groups and now have working CLI! Then you start thinking of extra commands and realize it won’t scale. Adding everything into one file gets messy and the thought of multiple teams working on it…

Part 3 of the 7 Layers of MLOps Security Guide — Welcome to Part 3 of our MLOps security guide! To recap, last time we discussed how to protect your data storage and went through a comprehensive list of storage solutions. Today we’ll dive deeper into understanding and protecting our data pipelines. Series Links Part 1. Intro and Data Security Part 2. Protecting Your…

Part 2 of the 7 Layers of MLOps Security Guide — Welcome to Part 2 of our MLOps security guide! To recap, last time we discussed how to protect data and went through an example for a restaurant review app. We’ll continue to reference concepts from that article and build on them as seen in the Table of Contents. Today we’ll…

Part 1, Securing your data — So you’ve heard of MLOps and you’ve deployed a model to production! Awesome, but now that you’ve hit your milestone, you should probably double check to make sure that everything is nice and secure. Security is a never ending topic but implementing the foundational aspects will help you sleep better…

Money makes the world go round, so why do so many people know so little? Basic finance is essential for our personal lives but also for any kind of business endeavour; it’s hard to be a successful business if you keep losing money*. This article isn’t designed for those who…

In Dec 2018 I realized that we needed to have a stronger succession plan for TU20. From that emerged the TU20 leadership series, a 12 week set of readings and exercises that helped to prepare the next group of TU20 leaders. This is chapter 8, originally written in March of…

The things I learned from leading TU20 In Dec 2018 I realized that we needed to have a stronger succession plan for TU20. From that emerged the TU20 leadership series, a 12 week set of readings and exercises that helped to prepare the next group of TU20 leaders. This is chapter 7, originally written in Feb of…