Unlocking Real-time Predictions with Shopify's Machine Learning Platform

Shopify has enhanced its machine learning platform, Merlin, to include an end-to-end machine learning workflow. Merlin Online Inference is a flexible, robust, and low-latency solution that enables Shopify to deploy machine learning models in real-time at scale.

With the growing importance of close user-face product integration, it has become necessary to utilize machine learning models with low latency, which poses many different use cases and requirements.

Shopify uses its internal service ecosystem to make sure the service deployment is scalable and that the Merlin Online Inference service's health is observed.