Why data scientists shouldn���t need to know Kubernetes

[Hacker News discussion, Twitter thread]

Recently, there have been many heated discussions on what the job of a data scientist should entail [1, 2, 3]. Many companies expect data scientists to be full-stack, which includes knowing lower-level infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes (K8s) and resource management.

This post is to argue that while it���s good for data scientists to own the entire stack, they can do so without having to know K8s if they leverage a good infrastructure abstraction t...