Reasons that MLOps is challenging

MLOps is challenging; only a few businesses have mastered operating hundreds of machine learning models in parallel. We discussed in this chapter different reasons behind that. You are now invited to an investor call because the sponsors want to understand better why your company does not already have thousands of predictive models running day and night in the cloud with the highest accuracy.

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The first chapter will introduce MLOps and why it is necessary for businesses that want to design, develop, and operate multiple machine learning applications simultaneously. You will learn about the main elements of MLOps, such as scaling and automation, its benefits, and why MLOps remain challenging. You will also explore what it takes to start the MLOps journey both from a technological and managerial perspective.

Exercise 1: What is MLOps?Exercise 2: MLOps: a set of practices to ...Exercise 3: What are characteristics of MLOps?Exercise 4: The business arguments for MLOps Exercise 5: Relevant MLOps fields Exercise 6: How to invest in MLOps Exercise 7: Reasons to invest in MLOps Exercise 8: Laying the foundation for MLOps Exercise 9: MLOps team members Exercise 10: Prerequisites of MLOps Exercise 11: Elements of MLOps

In the second chapter, you’ll learn about the entire MLOps life cycle from design to development, deployment, and operations. You’ll explore why monitoring is essential for productive machine learning applications and why we must regularly re-train machine learning models.

Exercise 1: MLOps explained end-to-end Exercise 2: Ten important MLOps life cycle steps Exercise 3: The main stages of an MLOps application Exercise 4: Important tasks in the main MLOps stages Exercise 5: The design phase Exercise 6: Postponing design phase tasks Exercise 7: Blueprint for Success: Designing Your MLOps Project Exercise 8: The development phase Exercise 9: Development tasks Exercise 10: Roles in the development phase Exercise 11: Monitoring, re-training and replacing MLOps applications Exercise 12: Characteristics of the MLOps life cycle Exercise 13: Individual responsibilities in developing an MLOps use case Exercise 14: The MLOps life cycle

In the third chapter, you will move from theory to practice and discover the main challenges and risks of deploying machine learning models. You’ll also learn how MLOps teams successfully operate and what management can do to foster successful scaling machine learning.

Exercise 1: Business challenges and risks related to MLOps Exercise 2: What makes MLOps challenging?Exercise 3: Traditional software vs. MLOps Exercise 4: Potential MLOps business risks Exercise 5: How MLOps teams successfully operate Exercise 6: DevOps-style teams Exercise 7: Challenges to implement MLOps Exercise 8: The state of MLOps today Exercise 9: A false statement about MLOps Exercise 10: Reasons that MLOps is challenging

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The final chapter will demonstrate how to successfully jumpstart your business's MLOps journey by discussing best practices and pitfalls to avoid. Finally, you’ll examine the different levels of MLOps maturity and conclude the course with a real-life case study about designing, developing, and operating a machine learning application for critical production processes.

Exercise 1: How businesses can become fully MLOps ready Exercise 2: Valid MLOps KPIs Exercise 3: Order deployment maturity Exercise 4: MLOps maturity Exercise 5: MLOps best practices and pitfalls Exercise 6: What do we need to test?Exercise 7: (Not) A best practice Exercise 8: MLOps case study: Increasing profits with MLOps Exercise 9: Key points of the case study Exercise 10: Wrap-up