MLOps Coffee Sessions #72 with Vishnu Rachakonda and Demetrios Brinkmann, 2021 MLOps Year in Review.

// Abstract
Vishnu and Demetrios sit down to reflect on some of the biggest news and learnings from 2021 from the biggest funding rounds to best insights. The two finish out the chat by talking about what to expect in 2022.
// Bio
Demetrios Brinkmann
At the moment Demetrios is immersing himself in Machine Learning by interviewing experts from around the world in the weekly MLOps.community meetups. Demetrios is constantly learning and engaging in new activities to get uncomfortable and learn from his mistakes. He tries to bring creativity into every aspect of his life, whether that be analyzing the best paths forward, overcoming obstacles, or building lego houses with his daughter.
Vishnu Rachakonda
Vishnu is the operations lead for the MLOps Community and co-hosts the MLOps Coffee Sessions podcast. He is a machine learning engineer at Tesseract Health, a 4Catalyzer company focused on retinal imaging. In this role, he builds machine learning models for clinical workflow augmentation and diagnostics in on-device and cloud use cases. Since studying bioengineering at Penn, Vishnu has been actively working in the fields of computational biomedicine and MLOps. In his spare time, Vishnu enjoys suspending all logic to watch Indian action movies, playing chess, and writing.

//Related links
Dr. Angela Duckworth's book on Grit featuring Cody Coleman:
https://www.scribd.com/book/311311935/Grit?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google_search&utm_campaign=3Q_Google_DSA_NB_RoW&utm_device=c&gclid=CjwKCAjw0a-SBhBkEiwApljU0klle1jhwhK1hrCtdOzR2NIqNu1Y1D9kkGhFg5k2jvo5cCft7UOCqBoCsigQAvD_BwE

You don't need Kafka Vicki Boykis blog:  
https://vicki.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-kafka?s=r

The Informed Company book:  
https://www.amazon.com/Informed-Company-Cloud-Based-Explore-Understand/dp/1119748003

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Timestamps:
[01:03] Campfire
[01:31] What are you most interested in learning about?
[02:00] Learning about serving models
[03:42] 2021 MLOps Community growth
[04:22] Engaging people coming back to the community
[05:41] Consistently high-quality interactions
[07:07] Vishnu's 2021 favorite moment in the Coffee Sessions
[10:05] Dr. Angela Duckworth's book on Grit featuring Cody Coleman
[11:43] Biggest surprise over the year for Demetrios
[13:48] You don't need Kafka Vicki Boykis blog
[16:26] What excites Vishnu in 2022
[18:04] The Informed Company book
[20:48] What excites Demetrios in 2022
[26:28] News and blurbs  
[33:25] Spinouts
[34:30] Last year's cool events
[36:02] Community progress
[38:47] Community highlights
[41:28] New projects
[44:26] A controversial blogpost
[46:03] Milestones
[46:57] Lessons
[50:00] Shout out and thanks to our sponsors!