Introducing Machine Learning for Software Engineers!

Get hands-on with machine learning engineering

You might have noticed a name change recently: Society’s Backend is now Machine Learning for Software Engineers!

This change comes from some feedback I got from all of you (see below) and is meant to more clearly state what the newsletter is about and the benefit readers will get from it. This will help our community grow and our discussions find the right audience.

I’ll answer all your questions/concerns and explain everything below!

What is “Machine Learning for Software Engineers”?

Functionally, it’s no different from Society’s Backend. I’ll still be writing about the things I always do—real-world machine learning and what it means to build it. So the newsletter will be the same topics, but with more of an emphasis on showing instead of telling.

To do this, I’ve set up a Machine Learning for Software Engineers repo! You can find it at https://src.mlforswes.com. This encompasses the ML Roadmap many of you have already used and it will include the guides for building real-world ML systems end-to-end that will be coming out this year.

This packages all the sources you need to get hands-on with machine learning engineering into one nice package. To summarize:

1. The newsletter will remain fundamentally unchanged just with more of an emphasis on showing instead of telling.

2. We now have a community repo that will contain all sources to make showing easier.

Star the repo to get updates as projects are added to the repo and support me.

But I’m not a software engineer…

Don’t worry! Everything regarding the newsletter will remain the same. I’ll still explain real-world ML concepts plainly and you can still enjoy reading those articles.

The only difference is there will be supplementary code examples, but they will not be required to understand the content in the newsletter.

What’s happening to Society’s Backend?

Society’s Backend is actually remaining unchanged. My intention with the name “Society’s Backend” wasn’t really for it to be a newsletter. In my mind, Society’s Backend is the group of people building the technology society runs on. In other words, Society’s Backend has always been all of you, the readers.

Functionally, this means societysbackend.com will redirect to mlforswes.com preserving the path and query strings. We’ll see what the actual names ends up being used for in the future (no plans currently).

What does this mean for me right now?

Not much. It means the name of this newsletter will be different and there’s a repo to accompany it. It also means you’ll see graphics change from reading “Society’s Backend” to “ML for SWEs” or “Machine Learning for Software Engineers”. I’ll be going through and taking care of that over time.

I’ve also amended my pinned post for the newsletter to better reflect the direction we’re going. You can check it out here:

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Thanks for reading!

Always be (machine) learning,

Logan