Algorithms tour: How data science is woven into the fabric of Stitch Fix
https://algorithms-tour.stitchfix.com/
The Data Platform team provides the data and compute infrastructure—along with a collection of internal SaaS products—that allow the vertically-aligned data scientists to effectively and efficiently carry out analysis, write their algorithms, and put them into production.
The platform nicely encapsulates properties like data distribution, parallelization, auto-scaling, failover, etc. This allows the data scientists to focus mostly on the science aspect yet still enjoy the benefits of a scalable system. And, the data platform engineers focusing on building… well, platforms. That is, they are not burdened with business logic and requirements for which they don’t have the context.
That is the job of the full-stack data scientists. At its heart is the idea that “Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL.” Our Data Platform team enables data scientists to carry algorithm development all the way from concept to production.