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What Is MLOps?
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What Is MLOps?

by Mark Treveil, Lynn Heidmann
November 2020
Beginner to intermediate
54 pages
1h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Introduction to MLOps and the AI Life Cycle

In the wake of the global health crisis of 2020, the question of scaling AI in the enterprise has never been more pressing. As many industries try to cope with the instability of a changing landscape, data science, machine learning (ML), and AI have moved from experimental initiatives to necessities.

Despite the growing need for AI to bring a newfound agility to a post-pandemic world, businesses still struggle to pivot their operations around these technologies precisely because it’s not simply a matter of technology; processes and people are also critically important. This report will introduce the data science, ML, and AI project life cycle so that readers can understand what (and who) drives these projects before covering MLOps (short for machine learning operations), a process that brings the required agility and allows for massive scaling of AI initiatives across the enterprise.

Why Are AI Projects So Complex to Execute?

It’s important to understand the challenges that AI projects present in order to properly address and overcome them with good MLOps practices. So, why are AI projects so complex, and why do so many organizations struggle to execute them (even those that succeed in other complex processes and in software development)?

There are two fundamental reasons for this.

Business Needs (and Data) Are Not Static

Not only is data constantly changing, but business needs shift as well. Results of ML models (i.e., ...

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