Sales and Marketing (S&M) and Research and Development (R&D) often compete when it comes to company budgeting. For budget managers and shareholders alike it’s interesting and beneficial to compare companies spend in this area to get insight into strategy and design budgets. A good start would be to look at how some of the largest US listed Software companies split their spending between S&M and R&D. This plot below illustrates that there is a large range of spending choices, right from Square through to Splunk....

There are a lot of articles out there explaining how to wrap Flask around your machine learning models to serve them as a RESTful API. This article assumes that you already have wrapped your model in a Flask REST API, and focuses more on getting it production ready using Docker. Motivation Why do we need to further work on our Flask API to make it deployable? Flask’s built-in server is not suitable for production Docker allows for smoother deployments, more reliability, and better developer-production parity than attempting to run Flask on a standard Virtual Machine....