Disclaimer: this is my opinion, not necessarily the one of my employer or any organisation. There is a clear difference between what I expected of the job, vs what I know now after 2.5 years on the job. Maybe not every item stated below applies to you, but some might. My background …

A code example to get you up-and-running quickly — The official Azure Machine Learning Studio documentation, the Python SDK reference and the notebook examples are often out-of-date, or don’t cover all important aspects, or don’t provide a compelling end-to-end example. …

To go full Kubernetes-native or not? — The recent explosion of tools including task and data orchestration tools should make you wonder if you’re still doing the right thing. Purely based on Github-stars of the open-source frameworks, Airflow is still the most popular one. This does not take into account the popularity of closed-source, or cloud vendor…

Adding noise to existing rows, only adding noise to outcomes of tasks performed on that data, or synthetic data generation? An intuition. — As companies grow, or as regulations get more strict, or as senior IT architects get up to speed with the latest trends, the need (or obligation) to mitigate privacy and leakage risks get stronger for data processing entities. Data anonymization or data tokenization techniques are widely used in this context…

AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML platform or GCP AI platform? It actually doesn’t matter. Not for industrialisation. — First, I’m going to assume that you have chosen a cloud service provider (CSP), or in the position to choose one for your organisation. Secondly, I’m also assuming that you need to be able to build, train, tune, evaluate and deploy a machine learning model, then the first thing you…