Scoring:
Essentially raw logs go to kafka. Java processes then read raw logs and aggregate the per-user state in real-time. State is stored in Redis. When a user's state is updated it is sent into another kafka topic that is the "features" topic. Features are simultaneously saved to HDFS for future training data and then consumed by a Storm cluster for doing prediction. Storm is running pickled scikit-learn models in bolts that read in the features and output scores. Scores are sent into a "score" kafka topic. Downstream systems reading the scores can read from this kafka topic.
Time from receiving a log to producing a score is ~x seconds or so.
Training:
Training data is stored into HDFS from the real-time system, so our training and production data is identical. We have IPython notebooks that pull in the training data, build a model and sckikit-learn feature transformation pipeline. This is pickled and saved to HDFS for versioning. The storm cluster when it starts a topology loads the appropriate model from HDFS for classifying data.
Scoring: Essentially raw logs go to kafka. Java processes then read raw logs and aggregate the per-user state in real-time. State is stored in Redis. When a user's state is updated it is sent into another kafka topic that is the "features" topic. Features are simultaneously saved to HDFS for future training data and then consumed by a Storm cluster for doing prediction. Storm is running pickled scikit-learn models in bolts that read in the features and output scores. Scores are sent into a "score" kafka topic. Downstream systems reading the scores can read from this kafka topic.
Time from receiving a log to producing a score is ~x seconds or so.
Training:
Training data is stored into HDFS from the real-time system, so our training and production data is identical. We have IPython notebooks that pull in the training data, build a model and sckikit-learn feature transformation pipeline. This is pickled and saved to HDFS for versioning. The storm cluster when it starts a topology loads the appropriate model from HDFS for classifying data.