MLOps & Production
Model deployment, CI/CD for ML, monitoring, Docker, Kubernetes, SageMaker, and end-to-end ML pipelines.
Overview
MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) bridges the gap between ML development and production deployment. It applies DevOps principles to the ML lifecycle, ensuring models are reliably deployed, monitored, and maintained at scale.
Key areas include model serving (REST APIs, batch inference, real-time vs. batch, model registries), CI/CD for ML (automated training pipelines, model validation gates, A/B testing), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes for scaling), and cloud ML platforms (AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, Azure ML).
Production concerns include monitoring (data drift, model degradation, concept drift), feature stores (offline and online feature serving), experiment tracking (MLflow, Weights & Biases), and infrastructure (GPU cluster management, cost optimization). MLOps is where most ML projects fail — building the model is 10% of the work; deploying and maintaining it is the other 90%.