neptune-client VS ploomber

Hi I am Jakub. I run marketing at a dev tool startup https://neptune.ai/ and I share learnings on dev tool marketing on my blog https://www.developermarkepear.com/.

Whenever I'd start a new marketing project I found myself going over a list of 20+ companies I knew could have done something well to “copy-paste” their approach as a baseline (think Tailscale, DigitalOCean, Vercel, Algolia, CircleCi, Supabase, Posthog, Auth0).

So past year and a half, I’ve been screenshoting examples of how companies that are good at dev marketing do things like pricing, landing page design, ads, videos, blog conversion ideas. And for each example I added a note as to why I thought it was good.

Now, it is ~140 examples organized by tags so you can browse all or get stuff for a particular topic.

Hope it is helpful to some dev tool founders and marketers in here.

wdyt?

Also, I am always looking for new companies/marketing ideas to add to this, so if you’d like to share good examples I’d really appreciate it.

There are a lot of tools out there for experiment tracking (eg neptune.ai), but I'm really not sure whether that sort of thing is over the top for what I need to do.

Welcome to another episode of The Developer-led Podcast, where we dive into the strategies modern companies use to build and grow their developer tools. In this exciting episode, we're joined by Jakub Czakon, the CMO at Neptune.ai, a startup that assists developers in efficiently managing their machine-learning model data. Jakub is renowned not only for his role at Neptune.ai but also for his developer marketing endeavors, including the influential newsletter Developer Markepear and a thriving developer marketing Slack community.

tbh I have done a pretty good search on this topic, I couldn't find any. I thought maybe community could help me find one, if people like you (who works at neptune.ai) have the same opinion then it is what it is :). anyway thank you for the suggestions that you gave, probably gonna use that.

To get started with MLOps, you will need to have some foundational skills in Python, SQL, mathematics, and machine learning algorithms and libraries. You will also need to learn about databases, model deployment, continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous monitoring, and other best practices of MLOps. You can find some useful resources for each of these topics in the following blogs on neptune.ai (disclosure: I work for Neptune):

arxiv.org2. apro-software.com3. en.wikipedia.org4. neptune.ai

Other companies followed the same route to promote their paid product, e.g. plotly -> dash, Pytorch Lightning -> Lightning AI, run.ai, neptune.ai . It's actually a fair strategy, but some people may fear the conflict of interest. Especially, when the tools require some time investment, and it seems like a serious vendor lock-in. Investing some time to learn a tool is not such a big deal, but once you adapt a workflow of an entire team it can be tough to go back.

track and compare your model performance visually. In addition, Neptune integration can be used.

I am working on a startup, I was wondering what people think are some gaps in current machine learning infrastructure solutions like WandB, or Neptune.ai.

- One-click sharing powered by Ploomber Cloud: https://ploomber.io

Documentation: https://jupysql.ploomber.io

Note that JupySQL is a fork of ipython-sql; which is no longer actively developed. Catherine, ipython-sql's creator, was kind enough to pass the project to us (check out ipython-sql's README).

We'd love to learn what you think and what features we can ship for JupySQL to be the best SQL client! Please let us know in the comments!

For those who don't know, Jupyter has a bash kernel: https://github.com/takluyver/bash_kernel

And you can run Jupyter notebooks from the CLI with Ploomber: https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber

Develop notebook-based pipelines

Fair point. MLflow has a lot of features to cover the end-to-end dev cycle. This SQLite tracker only covers the experiment tracking part.

We have another project to cover the orchestration/pipelines aspect: https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber and we have plans to work on the rest of features. For now, we're focusing on those two.

I recommend taking a look at the ploomber open source. It helps you structure your code and parameterize it in a way that's easier to maintain and test. Our blog has lots of resources about it from testing your code to building a data science platform on AWS.

Developing end-to-end data science infrastructure can get complex. For example, many of us might have struggled to try to integrate AWS services and deal with configuration, permissions, etc. At Ploomber, we’ve worked with many companies in a wide range of industries, such as energy, entertainment, computational chemistry, and genomics, so we are constantly looking for simple solutions to get them started with Data Science in the cloud.

If you like working locally with notebooks, you can run via the free tier of ploomber, that'll allow you to get the Ram/Compute you need for the bigger models as part of the free tier. Also, it has the historical executions so you don't need to remember what you executed an hour later!

It really depends on your use cases, I've seen a lot of those tools that lock you into a certain syntax, framework or weird language (for instance Groovy). If you'd like to use core python or Jupyter notebooks I'd recommend Ploomber, the community support is really strong, there's an emphasis on observability and you can deploy it on any executor like Slurm, AWS Batch or Airflow. In addition, there's a free managed compute (cloud edition) where you can run certain bioinformatics flows like Alphafold or Cripresso2

That's what we do for lineage with https://ploomber.io/