DBS Bank Head of Automation, Infrastructure for DBS Big Data, AI and Analytics Luis Carlos Cruz Huertas has a 1-on-1 discussion with Unravel CEO and Co-founder Kunal Agarwal about the convergence of DataOps and FinOps. The discussion, Leading Cultural Change for Data Efficiency, Agility, and Cost Optimization, was held at a recent Untap event in New York and revolves around best practices, lessons learned, and insights on.
In the first three articles in this four-post series, my colleague Jason English and I explored DataOps observability, the connection between DevOps and DataOps, and data-centric FinOps best practices. In this concluding article in the series, I’ll explore DataOps resiliency – not simply how to prevent data-related problems, but also how to recover from them quickly, ideally without impacting the business and its customers.
Machine learning (ML) enables organizations to extract more value from their data than ever before. Companies who successfully deploy ML models into production are able to leverage that data value at a faster pace than ever before. But deploying ML models requires a number of key steps, each fraught with challenges.
Most organizations spend at least 37% (sometimes over 50%) more than they need to on their cloud data workloads. A lot of costs are incurred down at the individual job level, and this is usually where there’s the biggest chunk of overspending. Two of the biggest culprits are oversized resources and inefficient code. But for an organization running 10,000s or 100,000s of jobs, finding and fixing bad code or right-sizing resources is shoveling sand against the tide.
