MLOps

We will try to provide some answers to this questions in two parts. This second article focuses on the first deployment and iterations to quickly improve it while the first one focuses on conception, data collection, exploration and application prototyping.

You don’t know what “model deployment” means? Even when you try to understand what it means, you end up searching for the meaning of too many baffling tech words like “CI/CD”, “REST HTTPS API”, “Kubernetes clusters”, “WSGI servers”… and you feel overwhelmed or discouraged by this pile of new concepts?

When speaking of Artificial Intelligence, the efficiency and profitability of projects depend on the ability of companies to deploy reliable applications quickly and at low cost. To succeed, you need to organize and improve the processes for creating, implementing, and maintaining AI models with a diverse and sizable team.

MLOps is the combination of Machine Learning and Operations. Like DevOps for the software world, the concatenation of "ML" with the agile execution methodology "Ops", augurs a coming of age of Machine Learning.

Pendant longtemps, l’objectif principal d’un Data Scientist a été de trouver la meilleure recette algorithmique pour répondre à un problème métier donné. Pour faciliter cette phase de prototypage, de nombreux outils ont vu le jour comme les librairies open-source et les plateformes de Data Science ; ces dernières allant même jusqu’à proposer une expérience no-code.