Atul Kale and Xiaohan Zeng offer an overview of Bighead, Airbnb's user-friendly and scalable end-to-end machine learning framework that powers Airbnb's data-driven products. Built on Python, Spark, and Kubernetes, Bighead integrates popular libraries like TensorFlow, XGBoost, and PyTorch and is designed be used in modular pieces.

Zipline is Airbnbs soon to be open-sourced data management platform specifically designed for ML use cases. It has taken the task of feature generation from months to days and offers features to support end-to-end data management for machine learning. Varant Zanoyan covers Zipline's architecture and dives into how it solves ML-specific problems.

You've already made the plunge to move to Kubernetes, and you feel pretty good about that. But why does it feel like it requires expert-level Kubernetes knowledge for engineers to get anything done? T …

Emmanuel Ameisen and Yan Kou share a guide for moving your company toward deep learning using a collection of NLP best practices gathered from conversations with 75+ teams from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Salesforce, Airbnb, Capital One, Bloomberg, and others.