ML at Reasonable Scale

Been reading a very interesting blog post series (link) on MLOps at reasonable scale.

I was already on board with the three first steps but I really got an “Aha!” moment from the last point:

Vertical independence pays off in speed of innovation, minimality, leanness and freedom: the most valuable coin for RS organizations. Give your data scientist the possibility to own the entire cycle from fetching the data to testing in production, make it as easy as possible for them to move back and forth along the different phases of the whole end-to-end pipeline, empower them. Do it and they will amaze you by developing reliable applications with real business value.