Guest Speaker: Andrie de Vries - Taking TensorFlow into Production

Bio:
Andrie is a Solutions Engineer at RStudio, where he helps customers and partner with their deployment of R as an analytical environment. He started using R in 2009 for market research statistics and joined Revolution analytics in 2013, where he helped customers with their challenges in adopting R for machine learning. After the acquisition of Revolution analytics by Microsoft in 2015, he worked with customers on their implementation of neural network and machine learning projects. He joined RStudio during 2017. He is co-author of "R for dummies" and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Topic:
How we deployed TensorFlow in production at RStudio

Abstract:
RStudio funds it’s large investment in open source R by selling pro products (RStudio Server Pro and RStudio Connect) to enterprise customers. Customers have access to premium support, managed using the Zendesk support system. We used TensorFlow to classify support tickets, and we put the model into production using TensorFlow server and plumber APIs, deployed to RStudio Connect. In this talk I will discuss lessons learnt and future ideas.