Building a great product is hard enough when your system is deterministic. Sprinkle in some probabilities, stochastic data, and unpredictable users? Welcome to the wonderful world of machine learning, where nothing is quite as it seems, and sometimes your models just don't want to behave.

With the proliferation of data science tools, techniques and computational resources, it's becoming easier than ever to experiment with machine learning. However, when you want to go past the experimentation phase and bring a model into a production environment and - gasp - actually have customers interact with it, it's a different ball game.

In this talk, I'll take some time to reflect on and share lessons learned from bringing a machine learning system into production. After coming to this talk, attendees will be better equipped to bring their ML experiments from the lab to their customers."