Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Chip Huyen said, then moved away from
infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.
No longer holdsWhen I wrote that tweet, I believed that Kubernetes was essential to the DS/ML workflow. This sentiment came from the frustration at my own job – my life as an ML engineer would’ve been much easier if I was more fluent with K8s. However, as I learned more about low-level infrastructure, I realized how unreasonable it is to expect data scientists to know about it.
Their words nowInfrastructure requires a very different set of skills from data science. In theory, you can learn both sets of skills. In practice, the more time you spend on one means the less time you spend on another.
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