## Metadata * URL:: [link](https://erikbern.com/2022/12/07/what-ive-been-working-on-modal.html) * Author:: [[Erik bernhardsson|Erik Bernhardsson]] * Publisher:: [[Erik bernhardsson|Erik Bernhardsson]] * Published Date:: [[2022-12-07]] * Tags:: ## Highlights * Data strikes me a a discipline that deserves a bit more love. * if I had to condense how to make engineers productive into one thing, it would be something like: make the feedback loops fast. * Data teams often need to change infrastructure a lot more often (sometimes every new cron job needs a Terraform update), have very “bursty” needs for compute power, and needs a much wider range of hardware (GPUs! high memory jobs! etc). Not to mention the “liberal” (ehum) standards for packaging cutting edge ML code . * UN should impose sanctions on anyone complaining that “data teams need to adopt software engineering practices”. The needs are different!