Do you have what it takes to run AI in production?

About this episode

Ryan Donovan interviews Peter Salanki about the challenges and considerations of running AI in production.

From the floor of HumanX, Ryan Donovan is joined by Peter Salanki, CTO and co-founder of CoreWeave, to chat about what it really takes to run AI in production; the growing importance of observability, utilization, and scheduling; and Peter’s advice for avoiding the trap of over-architecting too early.  Episode note: CoreWeave is the AI-native platform cloud that’s purpose-built for AI, combining next-generation infrastructure and intelligent tools to power the world’s most complex AI workloads. Connect with Peter on X .  TRANSCRIPT See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Ryan Donovan

Guest: Peter Salanki

Topics covered

• AI in production
• observability
• utilization
• scheduling
• over-architecting

Keywords

• AI
• production
• observability
• infrastructure
• scheduling
• CoreWeave

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CoreWeave

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