Model Serving Fundamentals & REST APIs
A trained model sitting in a .pkl file helps nobody. Today your iris classifier gets a front door: a REST API that any application, in any language, can call over HTTP.
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A trained model sitting in a .pkl file helps nobody. Today your iris classifier gets a front door: a REST API that any application, in any language, can call over HTTP.
Two weeks in, you have all the pieces: Git and DVC for versioning, MLflow for tracking, and Docker for reproducible environments. A single docker compose up that spins up a tracking server, runs a versioned experiment, and logs every result.
Stop running MLflow and your training script in separate terminals. Today you'll wire them together with Docker Compose , one command, a full local ML platform, ready to log every experiment automatically.
Multi-stage builds, .dockerignore hygiene, layer caching, and dependency pinning , the engineering discipline that separates a "it works" image from one you'd actually ship to production.
Containerize your ML code so it runs identically everywhere — on your laptop, on a teammate's machine, and in production — with zero "works on my machine" surprises.
Systematic search strategies, MLflow-tracked runs, and the art of comparing hundreds of experiments to extract your best-performing model.
Example: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS, MLOps...