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Date Published
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Phi Nguyen
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959
Language
English
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Summary

MLOps, or Machine Learning Operations, refers to the practices and processes used to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production. Despite the growing adoption of AI among enterprises, many companies struggle to infuse ML into their products and services due to challenges such as MLOps, which requires organizational change and combines teams, process, and technology to deploy ML solutions in a robust, scalable, reliable, and automated way. The fundamental difference between machine learning and traditional software development lies in the probabilistic nature of ML, requiring different data stores, observability, and monitoring tools. Industry regulations and the complexity of distributed computing also pose significant challenges, including impedance mismatches and lack of cohesion between ML libraries. While common practices such as responsible AI have emerged, many companies still need to build bespoke ML CI/CD pipelines or use specialized ML serving solutions to deploy models in production. The choice between generic web servers like FastAPI and specialized ML serving solutions depends on factors such as who owns the last-mile deployment and the level of expertise required for each approach.