Machine Learning Engineering in Action

16 Production infrastructure

This chapter covers

• Implementing passive retraining with the use of a model registry
• Utilizing a feature store for model training and inference
• Selecting an appropriate serving architecture for ML solutions

Utilizing ML in a real-world use case to solve a complex problem is challenging. The sheer number of skills needed to take a company’s data (frequently messy, partially complete, and rife with quality issues), select an appropriate algorithm, tune a pipeline, and validate that the prediction output of a model (or an ensemble of models) solves the problem to the satisfaction of the business is daunting. The complexity of an ML-backed project does not end with the creation of an acceptably performing model, though. ...