Democratizing Machine Learning at Netflix: Building the Model Lifecycle Graph

Saish Sali , Nipun Kumar , Sura Elamurugu Introduction As Netflix has grown, machine learning continues to support our ability to deliver value to members and drive excellence across multiple areas of our business. When Netflix began investing in machine learning over a decade ago, it was primarily focused on a single domain: personalization. Scala was the industry standard, our ML teams were relatively small, and optimizing member engagement was our primary use case.