Show HN: Lightning-extra, cloud-native plugins for PyTorch Lightning

[marco_z]

After building ML systems in various organizations, I collected some useful kit I wrote into a single library.

What you can do with this:

* Save (and retrieve) model checkpoints (optionally with a content-addressable naming scheme) on blob storage

* Load datasets incrementally from blob storage into Pytorch, using a local disk cache

* store your training metrics into SQLite

Design principles :

* "dumb cloud and smart software" - I prefer commodity services like object storage and container runtimes to framework-like abstractions (e.g. managed MLFlow or similar)

* extend Lightning in the most straightforward way

* let the user assemble a lightweight MLOps process with minimal changes to preexisting model code.

Happy to field any questions and receive feedback !

The library was refined using Sonnet, but thoroughly checked by eye and hand.