Applying ML
I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Eugene Yan for his wonderful collection of interviews and blog posts at Applying ML.
Adam Laiacano
I'll attempt to infrequently post about ML Systems, Data Engineering, and other things I come up with from time to time.
Latest posts
Code Interviews
For most of us, interviewing is hard. And annoying, frustrating, and stressful. Most interviews these days consist of a string of 1-hour interviews covering:
Developing Data Pipelines
Someone at work recently asked for some tips on developing data pipelines. They were coming with plenty of experience in data manipulation in Python (filtering, grouping, aggregating, etc) and were used to the fast iteration that you get with in-memory Pandas dataframes. It’s a bit of a transition to a world of distributed calculations where it is much slower to experiment with such data…