Understanding MLOps with Azure Databricks

As I've been focusing more and more on the Big Data and Machine Learning ecosystem, I've found Azure Databricks to be an elegant, powerful and intuitive part of the Azure Data offerings. Over my last 12 months at Slalom, I have had the incredible opportunity to travel across Canada and work hand in hand with the brilliant folks at Microsoft's Data & AI practice and Databricks experts to lead project engagements, deliver technical hands-on workshops, listen to the industry experts - the folks doing Data Science for a full time living - and absorb everything in between. There's a common theme across the industry verticals that's going to be our point of discussion today. The hot topic of 21st century tech is Machine Learning - some flavor of AI/ML is thrown into almost everything we find these days (I'm pretty sure I spotted a "genius" AI/ML toothbrush at Shoppers Drug Mart today). The reality is, the mathematical techniques that power Machine Learning models have been around for almost a century.