545: Scaling Data-Intensive Real-Time Applications — with Matthew Russell

Data scientist and entrepreneur Matthew Russell joins Jon Krohn to discuss the intersection of machine learning and fitness and dive deep into the strategies he and his team at Strongest AI use to scale data-intensive real-time applications.

In this episode you will learn:
• About Strongest's event platform and iOS app [6:06]
• How Strongest scaled to serve million [8:14]
• Strongest's unique approach to building a fitness app [17:50]
• How to rapidly test ML models for deployment [29:01]
• The three critical traits Matthew looks for in anyone he hires [33:11]
• Mining the Social Web [41:14]
• The values instilled in Matthew by pursuing a military education [53:30]
• The key skills Matthew wishes he’d learned earlier in his career [1:03:51]

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