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Leonard Austin (Ravelin) - DevOps in a Machine Learning World
As machine learning becomes mainstream, DevOps engineers face new challenges requiring innovative solutions for data management and deployment. Ravelin emphasizes the importance of automation and cloud resources, utilizing technologies like BigQuery and microservices to handle fraud detection efficiently. The document highlights the need for skilled professionals in various tech roles to navigate these evolving demands in the fintech landscape.
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Leonard Austin (Ravelin) - DevOps in a Machine Learning World
- 1. DevOps in a MachineLearning World @leonardaustin
- 2. As machine learningmoves from niche to mainstream tech stacks how do DevOps engineers prepare for a very different set of problems. A brief look at the new issues that arise from machine learning, an overview of cutting-edge "old school" solutions and how to drag data science (kicking and screaming) into a world of automation.
- 3. Leonard Austin Cofounder atRavelin CTO, Software Engineer, DevOps, Recruiter... @leonardaustin
- 4. Ravelin Fraud Detection. Ravelinexamines your visitor and payment data in real time, telling your systems which customers are fraudsters. We use Machine Learning, Rule Engines, Graph Networks and Industry Expertise to respond with scores in milliseconds. Perfect for an on-demand world. Raised $2m last year. Fintech. Hiring
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- 6. $14B Lost to fraud Growingrapidly as fraudsters move online
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- 8. One fraudster leadsto lots of cost
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- 12. Stack Go + Python AWS MicroServices Storage:Cassandra, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Graph Database X, ZooKeeper Queue: NSQ, Kinesis Instrumentation: InfluxDB, Grafana Docker - but only for local dev
- 13. Doing Things The RightWay TerraForm 100% Automation Horizontally Scalable Continuous Integration No need for SSH access 100% Visibility - Metrics & Logs
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- 15. Servers & MicroServices “Livestock,not pets. It gets sick, terminate it” - DevOps guy on the internet
- 16. Machine Learning Challenges > DataWarehousing Resource on Demand Deploy Hardware Requirement Life Cycle (Explore, Train, Deploy)
- 17. Data Warehousing What? Why weneed it for Ravelin How much data
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- 19. $1m Massively Parallel Processing- MPP IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Teradata, Vertica, GreenPlum v1.5
- 20. $200k Hadoop MapReduce, Spark,Hive, Impala v2
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- 23. We ♡ BigQuery Costs- $5 per terabyte, 5c per range query per terabyte Managed - but no reserve compute resources needed! Distributed columns easily append Dataflow Restriction: Can’t Update No Indexes
- 24. Probably need tomention AWS RedShift
- 25. Stack Go + Python AWS& Google Cloud Platform MicroServices DB: Cassandra, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Graph Databases, ZooKeeper Queue: NSQ, Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub Warehouse: BigQuery, DataFlow
- 26. Machine Learning Challenges Data Warehousing >Resource on Demand Deploy Hardware Requirement Life Cycle (Explore, Train, Deploy)
- 27. Work on theCloud! “Stephen’s laptop was measurably heavier because of the amount of data he had on it. We asked him nicely to move everything to the cloud and now the internet is a little heavier” - Science 2016
- 28. Data “Single point ofsuccess”- Jose CTO Hailo 2014 AWS 32 Cores 244GB RAM Google Cloud Platform 32 Cores 208GB RAM Azure 16 Cores 112GB RAM
- 29. Machine Learning Challenges Data Warehousing Resourceon Demand > Deploy Hardware Requirement Life Cycle (Explore, Train, Deploy)
- 30. Deploying Models Train -sample Pickle S3 Deploy Simple
- 31. Hardware - GPU’s Specificfor Deep Learning AWS have a GPU machine but $$$ No virtualization Buy and build your own server Q. How Deep is your problem? Speech, Video, Images
- 32. Summary Data Warehousing BigQuery Dataflow On DemandResource 1 Machine (because clustering is expensive) Big Machines on the Cloud Persistent Volumes on Google Cloud Compute
- 33. Hiring Smart People DevOps- Mid Level & Senior Data Scientist - Junior & Mid Level Software Engineer - Junior, Mid Level & Senior Product Owner
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Editor's Notes
- #3 machine learning is becoming common place saas solutions coming out challenges have changed, I’ll try and cover some of the solutions my company has come up with
- #4 But first who am I and what authority so I have to speak about DevOps or machine learning. Confession - I’m not really a full time devops but when we founded the company I had to do a little bit of everything. Had help but I learnt a lot.
- #5 So what do we do. Fraud detection - lots and lots of data in real time using lots of tools. ML -> Rule Engine, Graph Networks etc Raised 2m, growing rapidly. THose of you who like buzz words we are “fintect” and we are hiring (i’ll come back to that later).
- #6 So fraud you say- what do you mean? How big of a problem is it really? How much data are you talking about?
- #7 How can this be? I’ve never lost money to fraud? - Merchant do, in fact they lose most of the above figure. Im sure 90% of people in this room has had a transaction declined or card blocked because you were overseas or for some completely unknown reason. That is because of fraud Chip and pin stopped fraud right? - Sure, kindof but that 14B just moved online USA have only moved to chip this year (but not the pin)
- #8 Detecting fraud is hard. - There is a N in all of the M’s Most startup out there sign up customers and have drop outs - not the hockey stick of silicon valley, constantly messing around with their funnel to find those evangelical customers. Fraudsters look like your best customer ever, they sign up and start spending money - lots of it! The cost of one fraudster to your business could be as much as …...
- #9 100 real customers (depending on your margins) So how do you stop fraudsters? Glad you asked. It’s a good job we have cutting edge companies like: Visa, Mastercard, Amex and all those trustworthy banks on it. With all their might their solution…..
- #10 3D secure! I’m sure 100% of everyone in this room has seen this page before. Awesome no more fraud. I mean fraudsters dont know your secret password, so job done. For those who have been looking for the N it is….
- #11 here…. So Ravelin might has well pack up and go home, the bank’s have solved the issue for all of us. I mean everyone remembers that random password you setup once 18 months ago whilst trying to by a stupid wedding list gift. A password you only use every 3 months. Problem is neither can you or any other customer! So conversion drops….
- #12 Typically 20 - 25% on websites. Spoken to merchant who experience 50% dropout rate on mobile!!! So that the history, so what tools are we using that the banks are not…. (except Mondo of course).
- #13 Go in a binary you compile and you put it somewhere. DevOps need to get on this, life is better. Got to make room for python - basically machine learning libraries are all in python AWS - obviously Microservices - obviously because we are a startup and we are cool Storage: lots of different databases for specific needs. The right db for the job Instrumentation guys - Do it! It is so useful - if something goes wrong it is the first thing we look at. Docker - not a fan (as most of the improvements in workflow you get from go anyway) but we do use it for local dev which is awesome at. Could rant about docker for 20 mins but need to move on.
- #14 Terraform - so much better than cloudformation but infrastructure as code - big thumbs up! 100% automation - Kill a box is come straight back up again. Spin up everything at the click of a button right? CI Always be building - just moved to a mono-repo but that is a talk for another time SSH - if someone SSH into prod - alarms should be sounding. In this day and age you shouldn’t need access. Metrics - guys get on this. How many of you have metrics? but seriously a word about servers...
- #15 This is not a server (or microservice) - it’s a puppy, aka a pet. Never name your servers…
- #16 treat them like livestock with numbers. Infrastructure is a working farm not a house. Services/services are livestock. True story, we use ZooKeeper - it’s very important to us - it deals with service discovery and global locking. Last Wednesday - AWS decided to teminate one of our ZK nodes, for no reason. Those of you who have worked with ZK you’ll know as long as you have quorum (2 or out 3) you’ll be ok - and we were. But not only that, new zk box came online and rejoined the cluster without any manual help. I mean we were worried, and 3 of us in the office where looking at our metric page for 30 mins straight but it just worked.
- #17 So those are our DevOps beliefs at Ravelin and what I want to cover is the specific issues with Machine Learning and how we solved them. Lets start with Data Warehousing
- #18 What: We have databases for operational needs e.g. postgres, cassandra etc for real time requests from services. We dont want unleash our data scientists and their none optimised queries on it. Why: Exploratory work without impacting production databases on real data Query anything - unlimited resources for long running queries How much data: Terrabytes of data. If I had 100GB I would be tempted to move to BQ I want to walk through the history of data warehousing - 15 - 20 years ago...
- #19 Per year. Then you know 10 - 15 years ago it came down in price a lot
- #20 I’m calling this v1.5 And v2 is what I assume all of you guys are used to..
- #21 Licence is free but Devs, servers and consultants cost a pretty penny. Anyone here a Hadoop contractor - bet you own a house in London. Anyone guess how much v3 costs?
- #24 We had the ability and skill to build our own cluster but: Dont need to plan for capacity because we have on demand resource maintenance time DevOps time on pay when you use Dataflow
- #26 One thing I would say is, we have a really good account manager at Google who was a huge help. If you guys are serious and have big data ping me and I will personally introduce you.
- #29 We know ML can work on a distributed systems however it complex. E.g. some algorithms require super fast network cards. But majority of the algorithms are build for single machine and you can just throw loads of memory. 37 signals etc - just scale up
- #32 So Ram is all good - but GPU’s is another kettle of fish. GPU is good for a specific
- #33 When I say expensive, I mean in terms of money but also time