Until last week I was on a 6 month contract as a senior DevOps engineer for IBM/Watson. I was responsible for one of the huge real-time data ingestion pipelines that Watson receives. I left to work elsewhere in spite of being offered an excellent position. (If you guys are reading this, hi.)
I went to IBM not expecting much more than working as a cog in a lumbering giant.
Watson is the fastest growing part of IBM. If IBM has all of those eggs in one basket, it is the Watson basket. There were lots of jokes about cognitive in the office pool.
That said, it was by far one of the best managed companies I've seen. They have some fantastic data engineers and scientists. They are backing most of the open source projects related to AI and next generation tech. Spark, VoltDB...
The ads might seem sensational, but the concept of a black box that orders preemptive maintenance for an elevator isn't far fetched...
More over, Watson had so many current customers because it is valuable. The technical advisors that but products don't put faith in ads any more than we do.
Until last week I was on a 6 month contract as a senior DevOps engineer for IBM/Watson. I was responsible for one of the huge real-time data ingestion pipelines that Watson receives. I left to work elsewhere in spite of being offered an excellent position. (If you guys are reading this, hi.)
I went to IBM not expecting much more than working as a cog in a lumbering giant.
Watson is the fastest growing part of IBM. If IBM has all of those eggs in one basket, it is the Watson basket. There were lots of jokes about cognitive in the office pool.
That said, it was by far one of the best managed companies I've seen. They have some fantastic data engineers and scientists. They are backing most of the open source projects related to AI and next generation tech. Spark, VoltDB...
The ads might seem sensational, but the concept of a black box that orders preemptive maintenance for an elevator isn't far fetched...
More over, Watson had so many current customers because it is valuable. The technical advisors that but products don't put faith in ads any more than we do.