Redesigning Etsy’s Machine Learning Platform

Redesigning Etsy’ s Machine Learning Platform

摘要

Etsy leverages machine learning (ML) to create personalized experiences for our millions of buyers around the world with state-of-the-art search, ads, and recommendations. The ML Platform team at Etsy supports our machine learning experiments by developing and maintaining the technical infrastructure that Etsy’s ML practitioners rely on to prototype, train, and deploy ML models at scale. When we built Etsy’s first ML platform back in 2017, our data science team was growing, and a lack of mature, enterprise-scale solutions for managing the models they were building threatened to become a bottleneck for ML model delivery. We decided the best way forward was to build systems in-house that would present Etsy’s ML practitioners with a consistent, end-to-end interface for training, versioning, packaging, and deploying the models they were building in their preferred ML modeling libraries.