Ray Meets Daft: Supercharging ETL and Analytics | Ray Summit 2024

The Ray ecosystem expands its horizons with Daft, a powerful Python/Rust library that brings distributed ETL and analytics capabilities to Ray clusters. This lightning talk showcases how Daft transforms Ray into a comprehensive Data and ML/AI solution, scaling effortlessly to meet any challenge. Jay Chia demonstrates the seamless integration of Daft with Ray, highlighting its superior performance and key features. Attendees learn how Daft leverages Ray's object store for processing larger-than-memory datasets, enables zero-copy data transfer to Ray Data, and integrates smoothly with Ray's ML/AI tools. Through an end-to-end example, Chia illustrates the synergy between Daft and Ray in data exploration, cleaning, processing, and ML/AI training, offering a glimpse into the future of distributed data processing. -- Interested in more? - Watch the full Day 1 Keynote: https://youtu.be/jwZHJthQvXo - Watch the full Day 2 Keynote https://youtu.be/Lury2ad6KG8 - Check out the Ray Summmit Breakout sessions https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzTswPQNepXntmT8jr9WaNfqQ60QwW7-U&si=qPw-_SxT9lVmbRGE -- 🔗 Connect with us: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@anyscale - Twitter: https://x.com/anyscalecompute - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/joinanyscale/ - Website: https://www.anyscale.com