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Issue #150
 
 
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This article attempts to identify the key principles that distinguish MLOps from DevOps, particularly covering data, compute, orchestration and the software development layers.
 
 
 
Weaveworks has released a resource that would be very relevant for MLOps practitioners which provides practical insights around the concept of GitOps, including comparisons with similar concepts, as well as principles, processes and tools.
 
 
 
The Institute for Ethical AI published a collaboration with NumFocus on how they use foundation tools to enable accountability and ethics in AI and machine learning, which is one of several fantastic case studies including the story of the first photograph of the black hole https://numfocus.org/case-studies.
 
 
 
The data exchange podcast dives into conversation with Mist Systems CTO Bob Friday, where they delve into large scale machine learning on multi-modal data.
 
 
 
The Production Machine Learning Montioring EuroPython talk is now out, covering standard microservice monitoring techniques applied into deployed machine learning models, as well as more advanced paradigms to monitor machine learning models with Python leveraging advanced monitoring concepts such as concept drift, outlier detector and explainability.
 
 
 
 
 
The topic for this week's featured production machine learning libraries is GPU Acceleration Frameworks. We are currently looking for more libraries to add - if you know of any that are not listed, please let us know or feel free to add a PR. The four featured libraries this week are:
 
  • Kompute - Blazing fast, lightweight and mobile phone-enabled GPU compute framework optimized for advanced  data processing usecases.
  • CuPy - An implementation of NumPy-compatible multi-dimensional array on CUDA. CuPy consists of the core multi-dimensional array class, cupy.ndarray, and many functions on it.
  • Jax - Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more
  • CuDF - Built based on the Apache Arrow columnar memory format, cuDF is a GPU DataFrame library for loading, joining, aggregating, filtering, and otherwise manipulating data.
 
If you know of any libraries that are not in the "Awesome MLOps" list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request
 
 
 
 
As AI systems become more prevalent in society, we face bigger and tougher societal challenges. We have seen a large number of resources that aim to takle these challenges in the form of AI Guidelines, Principles, Ethics Frameworks, etc, however there are so many resources it is hard to navigate. Because of this we started an Open Source initiative that aims to map the ecosystem to make it simpler to navigate. You can find multiple principles in the repo - some examples include the following:
 
 
If you know of any guidelines that are not in the "Awesome AI Guidelines" list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!
 
 
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