Spotlight on Data: Machine Learning in Production at Google Scale with Todd Underwood

You can propel your business forward with AI-centric approaches to solving customer needs, but to be successful, you need to deploy your machine learning models at scale. Yet engineers face unique challenges when using machine learning-based products in production environments, such as specialized resource management and measuring user happiness.

In this Spotlight on Data, Todd Underwood, Google’s director and lead for machine learning in site reliability engineering (SRE), explains how to sustainably run machine learning systems at scale. You’ll learn why machine learning is essential to Google’s core functions, providing key advantages across most of Google’s products, including Search, Ads, Payments, Billing, Shopping, and more, and how SRE supports these production machine learning systems.

Recorded on August 5, 2019. See the original event page for resources for further learning or watch recordings of other past events.

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