Some Things I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Machine Learning Solutions: Part I

Recently, I've been touring different conferences presenting a talk about best practices for implementing large scale machine learning solutions. The idea is to present a series of non-obvious ideas that result incredibly practical in the implementation of machine intelligence applications in the real world. All the lessons have been based on our experiences at Invector Labs working with large organizations and ambitious startups in the implementation of machine learning capabilities. During those exercises, we quickly realized that many of our assumptions of machine learning apps were really flawed and that there was a huge gap between the advancements in AI research and the practical viability of those ideas. In this two-part article, I would like summarize some of those ideas that hopefully will result valuable to machine learning practitioners and aspirational data scientists.