MLOps Toolsets for Different ML Types

I've been playing with various ML training tools and different monitoring and operations tools. I've been unsure if it's one size fits all (e.g. langsmith or mlflow) or whether certain tools are more proportionate for the need. I haven't gone into licencing costs but for each ML Type, I have put together a list of… Continue reading MLOps Toolsets for Different ML Types

MLOps for Scikit-learn

Setting up MLOps for repeatable pipelines when using scikit-learn Not every AI problem requires a large language model. In many enterprise environments, the most valuable systems are still well engineered, explainable, repeatable and operationally governed. This is where classical machine learning pipelines still provide benefit and Scikit-learn remains one of the strongest foundations for these… Continue reading MLOps for Scikit-learn

Ducks on Icebergs

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Federating Data Between Snowflake and Databricks with DuckDB and Apache Iceberg If you're running both Snowflake and Databricks — and most enterprises I work with are — you've probably hit the federation problem. Data lives in both platforms, analysts need to query across them, and the obvious solutions (ETL everything into one place, or pay… Continue reading Ducks on Icebergs

EU Sovereign Cloud List

The rule of law is a fundamental principle from the Mesopotanian Code Ur-Nammu, through Magna Carta to International Criminal Court's decisiion to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternatives. Data sovereignty requires certainty that services will never be terminated or at the mastery of a governmental body. For this reason I find it useful… Continue reading EU Sovereign Cloud List

Explaining Medallion Data Architectures in Healthcare

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Faster Insight, Better Reuse, and Scalable Data Foundations Healthcare organisations face growing demand for better use of data: improving operational performance, supporting population health management, enabling AI, and accelerating research. Yet many still rely on fragmented pipelines, duplicated transformations, and slow bespoke data requests. At the same time, the economics of technology have changed. Modern… Continue reading Explaining Medallion Data Architectures in Healthcare

Google Cloud managed Spark & Hadoop for Mobile Network Performance

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As a Google Cloud Platform certified architect I really should blog some more about my actual usage of GCP. One of my favourite tools is Dataproc as it provides a managed Spark & Hadoop environment and enables a lambda architecture suitable for complex network event processing and function remediation. A mobile radio network is a… Continue reading Google Cloud managed Spark & Hadoop for Mobile Network Performance