Loading…
Virtual Event
November 17–November 20, 2020
Learn More and Register to Attend This Event

The Sched app allows you to build your schedule but is not a substitute for your event registration. You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual to participate in the sessions. If you have not registered but would like to join us, please go to the event registration page to purchase a registration.

Please note: This schedule is automatically displayed in Eastern Standard Time (UTC–05:00). To see the schedule in your preferred timezone, please select from the drop-down menu to the right, above "Filter by Date." The schedule is subject to change.
Back To Schedule
Thursday, November 19 • 5:40pm - 6:15pm
Serverless for ML Inference on Kubernetes: Panacea or Folly? - Manasi Vartak, Verta Inc

Sign up or log in to save this to your schedule, view media, leave feedback and see who's attending!

Feedback form is now closed.


As providers of an end-to-end MLOps platform, we find that autoscaling ML inference is a frequent customer ask. Recently, serverless computing has been touted as the panacea for elastic compute that can provide flexibility and lower operating costs. However, for ML, the need to precisely define hardware configurations and long warm-up times of certain ML models exacerbate the limitations of serverless. To provide the best solution to our customers, we have run extensive benchmarking experiments comparing the performance of serverless and traditional computing for inference workloads running on Kubernetes (with KubeFlow and with the ModelDB MLOps Toolkit). Our experiments have spanned a variety of model types, data modalities, hardware, and workloads. In this talk, we present the results from our benchmarking study and provide a guide to architect your own k8s-based ML inference system.

Speakers
avatar for Manasi Vartak

Manasi Vartak

Founder & CEO. (Ph.D.), Verta Inc
Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta, an MIT spinoff building an open-core MLOps platform for the full ML lifecycle. Verta grew out of Manasi's Ph.D. work at MIT on ModelDB, the first open-source model management system deployed at Fortune 500 companies. The Verta MLOps platform... Read More →



Thursday November 19, 2020 5:40pm - 6:15pm EST
Intrado Virtual Event Platform