Kuala Lumpur community chapter of Data Council

Data Council KL

​7:00 PM - Opening Registration/Check-in Table

8:10 PM - Introductions & Sponsor Sessions

Talk 1: "From Cluster Chaos to Calm: The S3 & Delta Table Rescue Mission"

Managing a sprawling data lake can lead to chaos: unreliable data availability, slow refreshes, and skyrocketing costs. This presentation details a successful migration from a traditional Parquet-based data lake to Delta tables on Amazon S3. We'll delve into the challenges faced - data inconsistencies, high operational costs, and slow querying - and explore how leveraging Delta Lake's unique capabilities (ACID transactions and efficient data skipping) led to significant improvements in data timeliness, availability, and cost optimization.

 Data Architects, Data Engineers and Data Platform Teams with at least 2-4 years of experience.

Obaid brings over a decade of data mastery with him. As a Staff Data Engineer at SEEK, he spearheads building robust data platform, ensuring data quality, and empowering teams with best practices. Obaid's expertise bridges the gap between cloud platforms, big data stack, and traditional EDW. This allows him to design and implement cutting-edge solutions that unlock the power of data.

This talk explores the challenges of scaling AI models, delving into the techniques employed by the BentoML team to navigate these challenges effectively. Additionally, the session will cover the critical metrics used to assess scaling behavior, offering practical insights into optimizing AI model deployment. Gain a deeper understanding of MLOps practices and strategies to enhance the scalability and performance of AI systems.

 ML Engineers and AI Software Engineers with at least 2-4 years of experience.

Jian Shen began his career as a data scientist, eventually gravitating towards software engineering within the data and ML space. Currently, he is at BentoML, contributing to the development of both open-source and enterprise software for ML and AI model serving.

 is a diverse group of companies, comprised of a strong portfolio of online employment, educational, commercial and volunteer businesses. SEEK makes a positive contribution to people's lives on a global scale. SEEK is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, where it is a top 100 company. In Asia, SEEK operates the JobStreet and JobsDB brands, the region's leading employment platforms and preferred destinations for candidates and hirers. SEEK attracts over 500 million visits a year across the six markets it operates in, namely Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

​Data Council is a company that organizes data conferences worldwide and is known for bringing together highly technical speakers and topics under their "no-bullshit" mantra. They empower local communities to bring this mantra to more places around the world.

​Data Council Kuala Lumpur (DCKL) is the Malaysian chapter that started in mid-2019. Its mission is to grow the local data community in KL. After a hiatus due to the pandemic, DCKL has restarted their in-person meetups in 2024, showcasing the best of the data scene in KL.

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