Slides from Curtis Huang's talk at the Couchbase Meetup in Mountain View on August 18th. Curtis is a Senior Software Engineer at Facebook working on Machine Learning, with experience in both ad tech and search. "AI and machine learning have transformed the technology industry for the last decade, creating a foundation for web search, ranking/recommendation, and object/speech recognition. In this talk, I will discuss a collection of machine learning approaches to effectively analyzing and modeling large-scale data. From a hands-on practitioner's perspective, I will talk about the process of building a ML pipeline from idea to production, the challenges, and lessons learned. As an example, I will describe the infrastructure and components of a modern ML ranking system."