MLOps Coffee Sessions #72 with Vishnu Rachakonda and Demetrios Brinkmann, 2021 MLOps Year in Review.// AbstractVishnu and Demetrios sit down to reflect on some of the biggest news and learnings from 2021 from the biggest funding rounds to best insights. The two finish out the chat by talking about what to expect in 2022.// BioDemetrios BrinkmannAt the moment Demetrios is immersing himself in Machine Learning by interviewing experts from around the world in the weekly MLOps.community meetups. Demetrios is constantly learning and engaging in new activities to get uncomfortable and learn from his mistakes. He tries to bring creativity into every aspect of his life, whether that be analyzing the best paths forward, overcoming obstacles, or building lego houses with his daughter.Vishnu RachakondaVishnu is the operations lead for the MLOps Community and co-hosts the MLOps Coffee Sessions podcast. He is a machine learning engineer at Tesseract Health, a 4Catalyzer company focused on retinal imaging. In this role, he builds machine learning models for clinical workflow augmentation and diagnostics in on-device and cloud use cases. Since studying bioengineering at Penn, Vishnu has been actively working in the fields of computational biomedicine and MLOps. In his spare time, Vishnu enjoys suspending all logic to watch Indian action movies, playing chess, and writing.//Related links Dr. Angela Duckworth's book on Grit featuring Cody Coleman: https://www.scribd.com/book/311311935/Grit?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google_search&utm_campaign=3Q_Google_DSA_NB_RoW&utm_device=c&gclid=CjwKCAjw0a-SBhBkEiwApljU0klle1jhwhK1hrCtdOzR2NIqNu1Y1D9kkGhFg5k2jvo5cCft7UOCqBoCsigQAvD_BwEYou don't need Kafka Vicki Boykis blog:  https://vicki.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-kafka?s=rThe Informed Company book:  https://www.amazon.com/Informed-Company-Cloud-Based-Explore-Understand/dp/1119748003--------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ -------------Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slackFollow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunitySign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/registerCatch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/Connect with Vishnu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrachakonda/Timestamps: [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[