How to Rebuild an End-to-End ML Pipeline with Databricks and Upwork with Thanh Tran
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Upwork has the biggest closed-loop online dataset of jobs and job seekers in labor history (>10M Profiles, >100M Job Posts, Job Proposals and Hiring Decisions, >10B of Messages, Transaction and Feedback Data). Besides sheer quantity, our data is also contextually very rich. We have client and contractor data for the entire job-funnel – from finding jobs to getting the job done. For various machine learning applications including search and recommendations and labor marketplace optimization (rate, supply and demand), we heavily relied on a Greenplum-based data warehouse solution for data processing and ad-hoc ML pipelines (weka, scikit-learn, R) for offline model development and online model scoring. In this talk, we present our modernization efforts in moving towards a 1) holistic data processing infrastructure for batch and stream data processing using S3, Kinesis, Spark and Spark Structured Streaming 2) model development using Spark MLlib and other ML libraries for Spark 3) model serving using Databricks Model Scoring, Scoring over Structured Streams and microservices and 3) how we orchestrate and streamline all these processes using Apache Airflow and a CI/CD workflow customized to our Data Science product engineering needs. The focus of this talk is on how we were able to leverage the Databricks service offering to reduce DevOps overhead and costs, complete the entire modernization with moderate efforts and adopt a collaborative notebook-based solution for all our data scientists to develop model, reuse features and share results. We will shared the core lessons learned and pitfalls we encountered during this journey.
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