Sessions
GOTO Chicago 2020

Monday Apr 27
12:00 –
12:40
Room 5
Wednesday Apr 29
11:00 –
11:40
Room 7
Wednesday Apr 29
14:30 –
15:10
Room 5

Ray: A System for Distributed Applications

Slides:


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Ray (ray.io) is a framework for scaling Python applications from single machines to large clusters. It is used in several ML/AI systems and production deployments.

Dean will explain common problems in scalable, distributed computing, particularly for high-performance ML/AI applications that motivated that creation of Ray. You’ll see how Ray solves them for Python-based systems (and possibly other languages in the future).

In particular, Ray supports rapid distribution, scheduling, and execution of fine-grained “tasks”, a more natural decomposition of work for many problems compared to coarse-grained decomposition. Sequencing of dependent tasks cluster-wide is also transparent and intuitive.

Ray also manages distributed state using the popular Actor model, which is essential for the next generation of “serverless” computing, where these services are stateful.

Whether or not you are a Python or ML/AI developer, the general lessons discussed are broadly applicable.

back-end
programming
performance
software architecture
Python
cloud