Introduction: Feature engineering remains the most impactful activity in machine learning, often determining model success more than algorithm selection. This comprehensive guide explores production feature engineering patterns, from feature stores and versioning to automated feature generation and real-time feature serving. After building feature platforms across multiple organizations, I’ve learned that success depends on treating features… Continue reading
Category: Machine Learning(ML)
MLOps Excellence with MLflow: From Experiment Tracking to Production Model Deployment
Introduction: MLflow has emerged as the leading open-source platform for managing the complete machine learning lifecycle, from experimentation through deployment. This comprehensive guide explores production MLOps patterns using MLflow, covering experiment tracking, model registry, automated deployment pipelines, and monitoring strategies. After implementing MLflow across multiple enterprise ML platforms, I’ve found that success depends on establishing… Continue reading
The Future of Work: How AI and Automation Are Reshaping Careers
After two decades of architecting enterprise systems and leading digital transformation initiatives across financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors, I’ve witnessed firsthand how AI and automation are fundamentally reshaping the nature of work. This isn’t merely about replacing tasks—it’s about reimagining entire value chains, creating new categories of roles, and demanding a fundamental shift in… Continue reading
Cloud-Native Machine Learning: Building Scalable Models for Production
The journey from experimental machine learning models to production-grade systems represents one of the most challenging transitions in modern software engineering. After spending two decades building distributed systems and watching countless ML projects struggle to move beyond proof-of-concept, I’ve developed a deep appreciation for cloud-native approaches that treat machine learning infrastructure with the same rigor… Continue reading
Hallucinations in Generative AI: Understanding, Challenges, and Solutions
The Reality Check We All Need The first time I encountered a hallucination in a production AI system, it cost my client three days of debugging and a significant amount of trust. A customer-facing chatbot had confidently provided detailed instructions for a product feature that simply did not exist. The response was articulate, well-structured, and… Continue reading
Introduction to Generative AI: A Comprehensive Guide
The first time I watched a generative model produce coherent text from a simple prompt, I knew we had crossed a threshold that would reshape how we build software. After two decades of working with various AI and ML systems, from rule-based expert systems to deep learning pipelines, I can say with confidence that generative… Continue reading
Azure Cognitive Services–Experience Image Recognition using Custom Vision (Build an Harrison Ford Classifier)
Custom Vision Service as part of Azure Cognitive Services landscape of pretrained API services, provides you an ability to customize the state-of-the-art Computer Vision models for your specific use case. Using custom vision service you can upload set of images of your choice and categorize them accordingly using tags/categories and automatically train the image recognition… Continue reading
Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science
Microsoft has come up with a new program to bring in more skilled people to the field of Data Science by providing them the right training on right set of tools. Microsoft has put together a curriculum to teach key functional and technical skills, combining highly rated online courses with hands-on labs, concluding in a… Continue reading
Introduction to Data Science
We all have been hearing the term Data Science and Data Scientist occupation become more popular these days. I thought of sharing some light into this specific area of science, that may seem interesting for rightly skilled readers of my blog. Data Science is one of the hottest topics on the Computer and Internet nowadays.… Continue reading
Azure in Germany–a complete EU cloud computing solution
With my earlier article Azure in China, it came in to my interest to look for any other country/region specific independent cloud data center requirements. I came across Azure for US Govt(Similar to Amazon Govt Cloud) instance and Azure Germany data center. For this article context I will be covering only Azure in Germany. What… Continue reading