Built-in Cloud Workstations

Develop data-intensive projects in a consistent, productivity-boosting, secure environment with familiar VSCode and Jupyter notebooks.

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A modern development environment for data, AI, and ML work

Connect your local VSCode to an always-on, personal cloud workstation. Use Jupyter notebooks for exploration. Develop and debug Metaflow runs in the cloud seamlessly.

No more discrepancies between the development environment and production, problems with inconsistent libraries, insecure data access, and slow wifis.

Secure and performant

In contrast to many other cloud workstations and notebooks, these workstations run on your own cloud account, within the bounds of your own security policies and SSO, managed by the Outerbounds Platform.

The result is drastically higher performance for data-intensive work and more control over data governance and data security.

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Develop code, data, and models in harmony

Develop production-ready workflows with state-of-the-art software development tools while exploring data, models, and artifacts in notebooks.

Observe results in a UI and scale out execution in the cloud with a single click.

Trusted by the best

Metaflow was recommended at work. I spent some time with it today... it's amazing. Their tagline is on-point: "Build and manage real-life data science projects with ease."
Martin Beierling-Mutz
Full Stack Developer
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Heroic Story
Very impressive work! Easily mix multiple Python virtual environments and compute resources within a single pipeline šŸ¤Æ using #Metaflow
Samuel Sinayoko
Machine Learning Engineer (ED)
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J.P.Morgan
This diagram is pure perfection h/t @moritzplassnig How much data scientist cares vs how much infrastructure is needed šŸ¤£
Shomik Ghosh
Partner
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boldstart ventures
Have been using Airflow in prod for several years now & looking forward to making a switch to Metaflow
Jacqueline Buros Novik
Head of Data and Analytics
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Generable
Metaflow - what a great tool!
Daniel Deychakiwsky
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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Spotify
What happened to Kubeflow? So many companies are migrating away from it because it's a pain to configure and maintain. I find it hard to recommend Kubeflow anymore. Right now, Metaflow seems to be a much nicer option.
Santiago Valdarrama
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Tideily
Metaflow records the result of every step to S3. IMO the ability of metaflow to expose individual components of a complicated process is a big deal. Like, a really big deal.
David Neuzerling
Manager, Econometrics
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Mastercard
By unifying our data and ML pipelines we can now automatically train models when an underlying warehouse table is updated which drastically improves efficiency and collaboration.
Marc Millstone
Director of Engineering
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Flexport
really love the event triggering feature in Metaflow
Sounak Mukherjee
Machine Learning Engineer
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Staple AI
Metaflow has really been helping in speeding up our ds workflows
Utkarsh Vashisth
Machine Learning Engineer
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sanofi
There's a lot of good ideas made practical in Metaflow to help ML projects and developers focus on what's important.
Matthew Seal
Principal Engineer
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Confluent
I've been extremely impressed by the Metaflow team. They have built something that's loved by everyone, so much so that they have Metaflow sad hours to encourage people say what can be improved. In my conversations with our users, I've often heard that Metaflow is one of the best software Netflix has ever built.
Nurcan Sonmez
Engineering Manager
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Netflix
Metaflow has helped us avoid the anti-pattern of needing to push code to find out if something works
David Tan
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REA
Maybe we'll be talking about this as the "Airflow for Data Science" in a few years. Not replacing Airflow, but in the sense that it's the default standard for orchestrating data science projects like Airflow does for data engineering pipelines.
James Densmore
Director of Engineering
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HubSpot
Been using metaflow for a while now, and love it. At its best, it hugely speeds up our development cycles
Harvey Pratt
Chief Executive Officer
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The Promenade AI
"As an informal estimate, our #datascience team believes they were able to test twice as many models in Q1 2021 as they did in all of 2020, with simple experiments that would have taken a week now taking half a day."
Kelly Davis
Software Engineer
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CNN
The end-to-end ML management in Outerboundsā€”event triggers, experiment tracking, managed artifactsā€”was a game-changer for our small team.
Aman Ibrahim
Founder / CEO
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Deeptrust
Thanks for a fantastic product ā¤ļø
Sam Thelin
Principal AI Scientist and Technical Lead
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SAP
The team has shaved months off the time it takes to build a productionized machine learning model, and at the same time improved the overall collaboration of the data science organization with other departments
Nicole Murphy
Executive Vice President
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Realtor.com
Very impressive level of polish in the Metaflow docs/tutorials. Pretty incredible how many details have been abstracted away by Metaflow.
Howard Wu
Analytics Consultant
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Freelance
I havenā€™t yet heard a bad thing about metaflow.
Adam Laiacano
Principal Engineer, Recsys & MLOps
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NVIDIA
Built with the core idea of allowing ML engineers and data scientists to use Python as native way to work, this friendly approach has tremendously boosted Carsales productivity in ML
Samuel Than
Senior MLOps Engineer
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Carsales
I really appreciate the clean syntax and the seamless transitioning from dev to dev-at-scale to prod-at-scale
Fabien Pertuy
Machine Learning Principal Scientist
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sanofi
One of the things I liked about Metaflow from Netflix is their clear documentation on "Dealing with Failures": it's important to raise awareness about "retry" logic, transient/permanent failures, idempotent operations, etc.
Emre SevinƧ
Co-Founder & CTO
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TM Data ICT Solutions
Thanks for Metaflow: it's a pleasure to use!
Laure Vancau
Biomedical Data Engineer
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Swiss Data Science Center
We are saving over 90% of the @awscloud cost in our #artificialintelligence model training phase. We've just finished the automation of our AI pipelines through the implementation of @MetaflowOSS , and the migration from http://H2O.ai
Rafael Garcia Navarro
Chief Data Scientist
,
Provenir
i love metaflow.
Deniz Zorlu
Member of Technical Staff
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Contextual AI
Metaflow has made my daily life as an ML engineer so much easier, especially as we scale our efforts. I've never worked with a framework that works out of the box as well as metaflow.
Mike Bentley Mills
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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Valar Labs
I've been using Metaflow for years now. I can't endorse it nor the people behind it enough.šŸ’„Parallelize hyperparameters across containers trivially šŸ’„Persist, retrieve, reproduce results and data artifacts from forever ago šŸ’„Stand up an API that serves resulting data
Will High
Senior Director, Data Science
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Tala
ā¤ļø metaflow! The people-first API design is fantastic.
Adam Laiacano
Principal Engineer, Recsys & MLOps
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NVIDIA
Our complex, multi-stage workflows are codified and orchestrated using Metaflow.
Manoj Ganesan
Software Architect
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23andMe
The MLOps piece of tech I'm most excited about is @MetaflowOSS. Just from reading the docs I'm amazed at how a large, enterprise company like Netflix seems to have really, really grasped the developer experience in the way I'd only expect 'smaller' projects to do.
Mark Goodhead
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
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Synacti
A space I'm excited about: 'open source on top of public cloud tech.' Instead of using open source libraries (which you have to run & scale, e.g. RabbitMQ), it uses infinitely-scalable off-the-shelf cloud services (e.g. SQS). Metaflow is a good example. https://docs.metaflow.org/metaflow-on-aws/metaflow-on-aws
Zack Kanter
Founder & CEO
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Stedi
Outerbounds was like Metaflow, but with a ā€˜plus plusā€™ā€”it made everything easier.
Camelia Hssaine
Head of Data Science
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Black Crow AI
Outerbounds Platform has proven to be transformative for us. The platform has allowed us to execute and train models without the burden of worrying about infrastructure
Soma S Dhavala, PhD
Director
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Wadhwani AI
I find it *extremely* satisfying that the tutorials for Metaflow (which was originally developed at Netflix) are organised in seasons and episodes šŸ¤“
Francisca Concha-Ramirez
Data Engineer
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BeZero Carbon
Bumped into Metaflow at work, plus @HamelHusain seems excited about it, so I am excited about it šŸ™‚ But after watching the video, wow šŸ˜²
Radek Osmulski
Senior Data Scientist
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NVIDIA
In six weeks, a team that hadnā€™t used Metaflow before was able to build an ML-based model, A/B test its performance, which handily beat the old simple approach, and roll it out to production.
Thanasis Noulas
VP of Engineering
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Trade Republic
Love metaflow!
Vladimir Pasquier
ata/MLOps Engineering Lead
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Prolaio
@MetaflowOSS rules!
Jacopo Tagliabue
Founder
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Bauplan
Metaflow is such an amazing tool!
Ben Brandt
Software Architect
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Eventellect
wow I didn't realize how much of the infrastructure needs Metaflow takes care of!
Goku Mohandas
Machine Learning Lead
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Anyscale
MetaFlow has a really fantastic API. https://docs.metaflow.org/metaflow/basics. Ā Most DAG systems could learn from it.
Tristan Zajonc
Co-Founder & CEO
,
Continual
weā€™ve been able to entirely switch over our research experimentation process to rely on Metaflow with great success.
Kelly Davis
Software Engineer
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CNN
We've had a really great experience transitioning from Argo workflows to Metaflow
Pavan Ramkumar
Director of Machine Learning
,
Herophilus
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Cloud workstations

Programmatic API for results
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Visualizing Results
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