Yes, I know that Theo is engaged in the ML efforts but wasn't sure how much he is involved in the model serving part (thought he was more into the online learning part). It would be great if Theo could help here!
I just wanted to make sure that we find somebody to help bootstrapping. Cheers, Fabian 2017-06-30 17:52 GMT+02:00 Stavros Kontopoulos <st.kontopou...@gmail.com>: > Hi Fabian, > > However, we should keep in mind that we need a committer to bootstrap the > > new module. > > > Absolutely I thought Theodore Vassiloudis could help, as an initial > committer. > Is this known? He is part of the effort btw. > > Best, > Stavros > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Stavros (and everybody else involved) for starting this effort and > > bringing the discussion back to the mailing list. > > > > As I said before, a model serving module/component would be a great > feature > > for Flink. > > I see the biggest advantage for such a module in the integration with the > > other APIs and libraries, such as DataStream, CEP, SQL. > > > > A FLIP would be a great way to continue your efforts and work on a design > > for the component. > > > > However, we should keep in mind that we need a committer to bootstrap the > > new module. > > As people are contributing to the model serving module, the number of > > committers should hopefully grow after some time. > > > > Best, Fabian > > > > 2017-06-30 10:58 GMT+02:00 Stavros Kontopoulos <st.kontopou...@gmail.com > >: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > After coordinating with Theodore Vasiloudis and the guys behind the > Flink > > > Model Serving effort (Eron, Radicalbit people, Boris, Bas (ING)), we > > > propose to start working on the model serving over Flink in a more > > official > > > way. > > > That translates to capturing design details in a FLIP document. > > > > > > Please let's discuss and vote whether you think this FLIP would be > > viable. > > > > > > Model Serving as a Flink component might involve a lot of work and we > > need > > > to commit to support it in future Flink releases. > > > > > > In the mean time a lot of people have joined Flink ml slack channel ( > > > https://flinkml.slack.com, https://flinkml-invites.herokuapp.com/) > and I > > > think its time to try get them gradually on board. > > > > > > So far we have several efforts hosted here: https://github.com/FlinkML > > > > > > Related documents for what we are doing: > > > > > > Flink ML roadmap > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1afQbvZBTV15qF3vobVWUjxQc49h3U > > > d06MIRhahtJ6dw/edit > > > > > > Flink MS > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CjWL9aLxPrKytKxUF5c3ohs0ickp0 > > > fdEXPsPYPEywsE/edit# > > > > > > PS. I will work on the last document the next few days to consolidate > > > effort results to some extend and break work down. > > > Our target is to provide a generic API based on some plugin > architecture > > to > > > serve different popular models/pipelines along with custom ones over > > flink. > > > > > > Best, > > > Stavros > > > > > >
