Re:Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer
by mattpallissard on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:33PM
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> You can go about doing more math, I'll do the engineering
I'd say most of the teams I supported as a backend/DevOps/infrastructure engineer followed that pattern.
Generally the evolution I saw was start with a handful of sciency folks working in R or python, get more grant money as work becomes more important, have some SE's thrown in the mix to re-write in python and/or C/Cpp.
A lot of those SE's would float between teams with one of us infra folks to performance tune as they scaled.
> the data scientists are never on-call,
Yeah, but I'll keep my on-call rotation over their constant 11th hour shenanigans trying to get a paper out the door.
I'd say most of the teams I supported as a backend/DevOps/infrastructure engineer followed that pattern.
Generally the evolution I saw was start with a handful of sciency folks working in R or python, get more grant money as work becomes more important, have some SE's thrown in the mix to re-write in python and/or C/Cpp.
A lot of those SE's would float between teams with one of us infra folks to performance tune as they scaled.
> the data scientists are never on-call,
Yeah, but I'll keep my on-call rotation over their constant 11th hour shenanigans trying to get a paper out the door.