You gotta be the dumbest in the room
You always want to be surrounded by people smarter and more capable. People you can learn from and look up to. People that challenge you and keep you on your toes. Raising from the bottom should be your clue to start finding a new place.
Mounting an FSx for Lustre file system to a SageMaker Notebook Instance
Amazon FSx for Lustre is an excellent option to run workloads where speed matters. One of those scenarios is to train machine learning models.
Machine Learning is much more than training models
Over the past few years, I've met a lot of data scientists and machine learning engineers. I've also had the opportunity to learn a lot about what a machine learning job means, so I decided to share some thoughts.
It's your job to move forward
Don't be lazy. Don't wait for your company to give you something new, so you can use the time and advance your skillset. That's shortsighted and won't get you what you want.
Deploying TensorFlow Object Detection Models on SageMaker
I know this sounds crazy, but one of the biggest struggles that Machine Learning engineers face is to take their models and make them available so they can be used as intended.
Moving the blog to Python 3
Python 2 is out of support. I created this blog back in 2014, using Python 2 running on Google's App Engine Standard Environment. It worked great. It gave me zero problems during these 5+ years.
Running a Python FastAPI application in App Engine
If you haven't checked FastAPI as an alternative to Flask, take a look at it, and you'll be pleasantly surprised by how capable, modern, and cool it is.
You need both learning and doing
Great developers spend much of their time writing code. It's not only about how much they study, read, and keep up with the latest trends but how much time they dedicate to hone their craft. They constantly make things. Again and again.