Deploying and Maintaining Production AI Systems
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Deploying and Maintaining Production AI Systems
This course is part of GenAI Ops: Running Powerful Generative AI Systems Professional Certificate
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What you'll learn
Build deployment orchestration workflows with canary releases, automated rollbacks, and dependency analysis to prevent production failures.
Automate ML model lifecycle management using CI/CD pipelines with governance compliance checks and drift-triggered retraining mechanisms.
Implement system validation and performance optimization frameworks that analyze deployment dependencies, benchmark targets, and correlate metrics.
Design observability systems that monitor GenAI performance using integrated dashboards, alert tuning, and distributed tracing across logs.
Skills you'll gain
- Dependency Analysis
- Responsible AI
- Continuous Deployment
- Performance Analysis
- MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
- Application Deployment
- Model Training
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Dashboard Creation
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Release Management
- Application Performance Management
- Continuous Monitoring
- CI/CD
- Automation
- Cloud Platforms
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February 2026
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There are 13 modules in this course
Most machine learning models fail in production not due to poor algorithms, but from inadequate deployment practices, unmonitored performance drift, and missing operational safeguards. This course equips you with the MLOps and site reliability engineering skills to deploy generative AI systems safely, automate model lifecycle management, and maintain peak performance in production environments.
You will learn to orchestrate deployment workflows with canary releases and automated rollbacks, implement CI/CD pipelines with compliance checks and drift-triggered retraining, and design observability systems using logs, metrics, and tracing. Through hands-on projects, you will create performance dashboards that connect user experience with operational KPIs and build automation pipelines that improve reliability without sacrificing speed. These practical skills prepare you for roles as MLOps engineers, AI deployment specialists, and site reliability engineers. By the end of this course, you will be able to make data-driven release decisions, reduce downtime through proactive monitoring, and implement robust operational practices for AI systems at scale.
You will develop the critical skill of identifying and preventing dependency conflicts before deployment by analyzing Dockerfiles, SBOM reports, and dependency graphs to catch version mismatches that cause runtime failures.
What's included
3 videos1 reading1 assignment
3 videosβ’Total 14 minutes
- Why Dependency Analysis Saves Production Deploymentsβ’3 minutes
- Understanding Container Dependencies and Version Conflictsβ’6 minutes
- Analyzing Dockerfiles and SBOM Reports for Dependency Conflictsβ’5 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Systematic Approach to Container Dependency Validationβ’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 3 minutes
- Dependency Analysis Knowledge Checkβ’3 minutes
You will build data-driven deployment decision-making by benchmarking AI systems across different deployment targets, analyzing performance-cost trade-offs, and selecting optimal infrastructure based on specific application requirements and business constraints.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 21 minutes
- Why Deployment Target Selection Determines AI System Successβ’2 minutes
- Performance Metrics and Cost Analysis for Deployment Targetsβ’6 minutes
- Benchmarking AI Models Across Deployment Targetsβ’13 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Systematic Benchmarking and Cost Analysis for AI Deployment Targetsβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 18 minutes
- Performance Benchmark Dashboard Creationβ’15 minutes
- Performance Analysis and Deployment Target Selectionβ’3 minutes
You will gain expertise in the design and implementation of blue-green deployment strategies that enable zero-downtime model upgrades, including coordination protocols with SRE teams, traffic routing mechanisms, and rollback procedures for production AI systems.
What's included
3 videos1 reading3 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 12 minutes
- Why Zero-Downtime Deployments Are Non-Negotiable for Production AIβ’3 minutes
- Blue-Green Deployment Architecture and Coordination Protocolsβ’6 minutes
- Deploying ML Models with Blue-Green Strategy in Kubernetesβ’3 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Implementing Blue-Green Deployments with Kubernetesβ’10 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 30 minutes
- Comprehensive Deployment Strategy Evaluationβ’12 minutes
- Blue-Green Deployment Strategy Designβ’15 minutes
- Blue-Green Deployment Strategy Knowledge Checkβ’3 minutes
You will systematically inspect deployment manifests, identify dependency conflicts, and validate environment compatibility to prevent runtime failures in GenAI system deployments.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 14 minutes
- Why Deployment Compatibility Analysis Prevents Production Disastersβ’4 minutes
- Dependency Resolution and Compatibility Matricesβ’7 minutes
- Inspecting a GenAI Deployment Manifest: Step-by-Step Compatibility Analysisβ’3 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Deployment Manifest Fundamentalsβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 15 minutes
- Enterprise GenAI Deployment Pipeline Creationβ’10 minutes
- Manifest Analysis Fundamentals Assessmentβ’5 minutes
You will systematically interpret test results, analyze observability metrics, and make data-driven go/no-go decisions for GenAI system releases using industry-standard evaluation frameworks.
What's included
3 videos1 reading1 assignment
3 videosβ’Total 18 minutes
- Why Data-Driven Release Decisions Prevent Revenue Lossβ’4 minutes
- Reading the Signs: Interpreting GenAI Performance Dashboards for Release Decisionsβ’10 minutes
- Go/No-Go Decision Analysis: Step-by-Step Dashboard Evaluation Processβ’4 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Data-Driven Release Evaluation: Frameworks for Go/No-Go Decisionsβ’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 5 minutes
- Data-Driven Release Decision Fundamentalsβ’5 minutes
You will design and implement sophisticated deployment workflows that integrate canary release strategies with automated rollback mechanisms to ensure reliable GenAI system deployments at enterprise scale.
What's included
3 videos1 reading3 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 16 minutes
- Why Orchestrated Deployment Workflows Prevent Million-Dollar Failuresβ’4 minutes
- Implementing Safe Deployments: Canary Patterns and Progressive Delivery for GenAIβ’9 minutes
- Building a Complete GenAI Deployment Pipeline: From Code to Productionβ’3 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Building Robust Deployment Pipelines: Jenkins Architecture for GenAI Systemsβ’10 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 28 minutes
- Complete Release Engineering Evaluationβ’15 minutes
- Enterprise GenAI Deployment Pipeline Creationβ’8 minutes
- Deployment Pipeline and Canary Release Mastery Assessmentβ’5 minutes
You will gain expertise in systematically diagnosing ML pipeline performance issues through methodical log analysis and targeted investigation of pipeline stages.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 14 minutes
- Why Performance Diagnosis Separates Reliable from Fragile MLOpsβ’3 minutes
- Navigating MLflow Logs to Identify Performance Patternsβ’6 minutes
- Systematic Spark Stage Analysis for Bottleneck Detectionβ’5 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 8 minutes
- MLflow Pipeline Logging Architecture and Performance Indicatorsβ’8 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 24 minutes
- Diagnose Production Pipeline Performance Issuesβ’18 minutes
- Practice Quiz MLflow Performance Analysis Knowledge Checkβ’6 minutes
You will develop critical evaluation skills to audit CI/CD workflows against AI governance standards and ensure safe rollback mechanisms for production ML systems
What's included
3 videos2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 19 minutes
- Why AI Governance Compliance Separates Sustainable from Fragile MLOpsβ’4 minutes
- Responsible AI Governance Frameworks and CI/CD Integration Principlesβ’10 minutes
- Systematic GitHub Actions Workflow Evaluation for AI Governance Complianceβ’4 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 28 minutes
- Audit CI/CD Workflows Against AI Governance Standardsβ’20 minutes
- CI/CD Governance Evaluation Knowledge Checkβ’8 minutes
You will architect comprehensive automated systems that detect data drift, trigger intelligent retraining workflows, and safely promote validated models to production
What's included
3 videos1 reading3 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 20 minutes
- Why Intelligent Automation Separates Adaptive from Fragile ML Systemsβ’4 minutes
- Data Drift Detection Methods and Automated Trigger Architectureβ’10 minutes
- Building Production-Ready PSI Drift Detection Systemsβ’6 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 7 minutes
- Video: Data Drift Detection Methods and Automated Trigger Architectureβ’7 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 47 minutes
- MLOps Automation Mastery Assessmentβ’25 minutes
- Architect End-to-End Automated Retraining Systemβ’15 minutes
- Automated Retraining Pipelines Knowledge Check β’7 minutes
You will build proficiency in the systematic evaluation of alert thresholds using historical data, balancing sensitivity with operational efficiency and minimizing false positives before SLA breaches.
What's included
3 videos1 reading1 assignment
3 videosβ’Total 23 minutes
- The Cost of Alert Fatigue in GenAI Operationsβ’3 minutes
- Alert Threshold Evaluation Fundamentalsβ’8 minutes
- Analyzing Historical Alert Data for Threshold Optimizationβ’12 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 8 minutes
- Alert Sensitivity Analysis Techniquesβ’8 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 10 minutes
- Alert Optimization Concepts Assessmentβ’10 minutes
You will learn to design and implement integrated performance dashboards that reveal the hidden connections between user-facing metrics and backend system performance, enabling data-driven optimization decisions and executive-level reporting.
What's included
3 videos2 readings2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 20 minutes
- Executive Dashboard Success Storiesβ’5 minutes
- Dashboard Design for GenAI Systemsβ’11 minutes
- Building OpenTelemetry Dashboardsβ’3 minutes
2 readingsβ’Total 13 minutes
- Performance Correlation Principlesβ’8 minutes
- KPI Integration Strategiesβ’5 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 20 minutes
- Dashboard Design Challengeβ’10 minutes
- Performance Monitoring Concepts Assessmentβ’10 minutes
You will learn to conduct comprehensive system health assessments through the three pillars of observability, enabling rapid incident diagnosis, performance optimization, and proactive maintenance of distributed GenAI architectures.
What's included
3 videos1 reading3 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 20 minutes
- Three Pillars Success Storyβ’5 minutes
- Observability Fundamentalsβ’11 minutes
- Distributed Trace analysis for GenAI system troubleshootingβ’4 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 7 minutes
- Logs, Metrics, and Traces Integrationβ’7 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 38 minutes
- from outlineβ’15 minutes
- System Health Assessmentβ’13 minutes
- Observability Assessmentβ’10 minutes
You will implement a complete AI deployment pipeline in a production environment, addressing dependency management, performance optimization, and monitoring to ensure reliable and efficient operations.
What's included
1 video5 readings1 assignment
1 videoβ’Total 8 minutes
- AI Deployment and Operationsβ’8 minutes
5 readingsβ’Total 160 minutes
- Module Overviewβ’10 minutes
- Professional Contextβ’10 minutes
- Practical Applications: AI Deployment and Operationsβ’10 minutes
- Assignment: Production AI System Deploymentβ’120 minutes
- Solution Keyβ’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 30 minutes
- Graded Quiz: Deploying and Maintaining Production AI Systemsβ’30 minutes
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Yes, this course is designed for ML practitioners with foundational knowledge who want to operationalize AI systems. You should have ML fundamentals, Python experience, and basic understanding of deployment concepts. The course bridges the gap between model development and production operations, teaching you the automation, monitoring, and reliability engineering skills essential for enterprise AI deployment.
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