Introducing Skein: Deploy Python on Apache YARN the Easy Way
By Jim Crist *This post is reprinted with permission from Jim Crist’s blog. The original post can be found here. In this post, I introduce Skein, a new tool and library for deploying applications on Apache YARN. I provide background on why this work was necessary, and demonstrate deploying a simple Python application on a YARN cluster. Introduction […]
Intake: Taking the Pain out of Data Access
By Martin Durant, Anaconda Software Engineer
We are pleased to announce the release of Intake, a simple data access layer and cataloging system.
This ar…
Faster Machine Learning—Deep Learning with GPUs
The Big Deal With GPUs
If you’ve been following data science and machine learning, you’ve probably heard the term GPU. But what exactly is a…
New Release of Anaconda Enterprise features Expanded GPU and Container Usage
Anaconda, Inc. is thrilled to announce the latest release of Anaconda Enterprise, our popular AI/ML enablement platform for teams at scale. The release o…
Scalable Machine Learning with Dask—Your Questions Answered!
Building powerful machine learning models often requires more computing power than a laptop can provide. Although it’s fairly easy to provision compute instances in the cloud these days, all the computing power in the world won’t help you if your machine learning library cannot scale. Unfortunately, popular libraries like scikit-learn, XGBoost, and TensorFlow don’t offer […]
Open Source Model Management Roundup: Polyaxon, Argo, and Seldon
One of the most common questions the Anaconda Enterprise team receives is something along the lines of: “But really, how difficult is it to build this using open source tools?” This is certainly a fair question, as open source does provide a lot of functionality while offering a lower entry price than an enterprise platform. […]
Improved Security & Performance in Anaconda Distribution 5
We announced the release of Anaconda Distribution 5 back in October 2017, but we’re only now catching up with a blog post on the security and perfo…
Scalable Machine Learning in the Enterprise with Dask
You’ve been hearing the hype for years: machine learning can have a magical, transformative impact on your business, putting key insights into the …
Patching Source Code to Conda Build Recipes
If you are a developer who relies upon conda, we hope to encourage you to begin building your own packages so that your projects can be used just like all of the other packages you rely upon. The success of Anaconda rests upon the ease to search for, install, and create environments for packages while […]
Machines Learning about Humans Learning about Machines Learning
I had the great honor and pleasure of presenting the first tutorial at AnacondaCon 2018, on machine learning with scikit-learn. I spoke to a full room of…