Developing and Deploying Models at Scale...

Looking for a break after an endless stream of talks about Spark? We'll do a live demo of developing and deploying a predictive model using an easy-to-use, Spark-less platform. We'll show how standard cloud compute resources let you train models using terabytes of RAM, and we'll demo deploying a model and serving requests at web scale, with horizontal scalability and high availability. Benefits of the approach we'll demonstrate include: (a) flexibility to use arbitrary R and Python development without shoehorning work into Spark; (b) simpler infrastructure management by avoiding distributed computing; (c) better performance for problems that are merely "medium data" rather than legitimately "big" data.