GRADIENT

AI compute optimization


Reduce cloud costs, increase engineering time and consistently meet your runtime SLAs with Gradient by Sync.

Get started in 3 steps:

Monitor

jobs

Gain actionable insights into your data pipelines, as we collect statistical data for accurate projections.

1

Optimize

clusters

Review recommendations for compute optimizations and apply them in a click.

2

Automate

to scale

Fully automate compute cluster management for scalability when you have 1000s of jobs.

3

Effortlessly optimize
data infrastructure with AI

Spun out of MIT, Gradient uses advanced machine-learning algorithms to help organizations
reduce compute spend and meet their SLAs with minimum effort and zero guess-work

AI optimization
24/7

  • Continuous monitoring & optimization
  • Adaptive to varying data sizes
  • Lowers costs while obeying SLAs
  • Saves 10 hours/ week per engineer
  • Co-pilot and autopilot modes
Cut costs and hit SLAs with Gradient

Custom tuned
ML algorithms

  • Automatically fine-tuned algorithms
  • Self improving models via a closed-loop feedback
  • The core model is based on historical performance logs
  • Each job has a custom trained optimization model
Get custom tailored optimizations based for your data pipelines

Control plane for your data

  • Single pane of glass for your Databricks Workspace
  • Total spend, total cost savings and ROI data
  • Costs per job, customer, app-id, and custom tag
  • Detailed recommendations for you to approve, or auto-apply
Single pane of glass for Databricks spend

Complex data pipelines

  • Adapts to cyclic patterns, seasonality, data spikes, and other complex patterns.
  • Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) dependent workflows
  • Parallel jobs running on multiple nodes
Gradient optimizes DAG dependent jobs

The benefits of serverless
without the drawbacks

  • The convenience of serverless, with control
  • Better cost optimization by 60%
  • Retain full control over your jobs and clusters
  • Full transparency on what the infrastructure is doing
Gradient offers the convenience of serverless, but lets you retain full control

Compute cluster
optimization at scale

  • AI built to optimize jobs at scale
  • A single engineer can optimize 1000s of jobs
  • A true “set and forget” solution
  • Saves each data engineer 10 hours a week
Gradient compute optimization at scale

Root cause analysis

  • Easy detection of root causes for runtime and cost anomalies
  • Detailed recommendations logs
  • Automated audit trails for every change made
  • One click rollbacks
Identify root causes in minutes with Gradient

Fine-grained reports

  • Spark metrics timelines to understand changes over time
  • Performance by core hours, number of workers, input size, Spark shuffling, and more
  • Job-level spend on DBUs and cloud costs
Understand changes in compute costs and performance over time

Auto-apply for
self-improving jobs

  • Recommendations are automatically applied after each run
  • Improvements through a closed feedback loop
  • See the changes take effect by running the auto-training notebook
Gradient supports co-pilot and autopilot modes

Works with
your stack

  • Compatible with AWS and Azure (GCP soon)
  • Airflow and Databricks Workflows integrations
  • Azure Data Factory, Dagster, and others via API
  • Custom integrations via API
Gradient was built to work with your data stack

How it works

Get to know the sophisticated technology behind the world’s first machine learning
compute optimization engine.

 

Data-driven
models

Our core model collects statistical data about your jobs to train and determine the most effective and cost-efficient configuration to meet your desired outcomes (e.g. cost, runtime, or SLAs achievement rate).

Job-specific
models

Every job has a model that is trained on worker numbers, cost, and data size. Gradient uses this information to construct the scaling curve per job to ensure accuracy.

Closed-loop feedback

Models are fine-tuned using a closed feedback loop where the optimizations are made and their impact on costs and performance is analyzed. This results in models that are automatically customized to your workloads.

Start saving in minutes

Schedule a call to go over your specific use-case
and learn how Gradient can help.