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March 2026

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This course is part of the Gradient to Production: MLOps & Model Serving Specialization
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Modern ML teams don’t just build models—they build reliable, reproducible, and cost-efficient workflows. In this course, you’ll learn the core development skills that make ML projects scale in real engineering environments. You’ll practice managing experiments with clean Git branching strategies, creating fully reproducible environments using Poetry, and monitoring CPU, GPU, and memory usage to avoid failures and control cloud costs. Through videos, hands-on activities, and a guided lab, you’ll version notebooks and artifacts, lock dependencies for stable builds, and analyze resource logs from VS Code Remote to prevent OOM events and runaway grid searches. By the end, you’ll be able to structure ML codebases more effectively, deliver reproducible experiments to teammates, and run cost-aware training workflows that fit both performance and budget constraints.

Modern ML teams don’t just build models—they build reliable, reproducible, and cost-efficient workflows. In this course, you’ll learn the core development skills that make ML projects scale in real engineering environments. You’ll practice managing experiments with clean Git branching strategies, creating fully reproducible environments using Poetry, and monitoring CPU, GPU, and memory usage to avoid failures and control cloud costs. Through videos, hands-on activities, and a guided lab, you’ll version notebooks and artifacts, lock dependencies for stable builds, and analyze resource logs from VS Code Remote to prevent OOM events and runaway grid searches. By the end, you’ll be able to structure ML codebases more effectively, deliver reproducible experiments to teammates, and run cost-aware training workflows that fit both performance and budget constraints.

What's included

8 videos3 readings4 assignments1 ungraded lab

8 videosTotal 67 minutes
  • Welcome & Course Introduction Video3 minutes
  • How Git Branching Supports ML Development6 minutes
  • Creating a Feature Branch and Managing Artifacts14 minutes
  • Understanding Virtual Environments for ML Development6 minutes
  • Initializing a Poetry Project and Locking Dependencies11 minutes
  • Understanding Compute Cost in ML Development8 minutes
  • Spotting Resource Bottlenecks and Moving Jobs to Cheaper Compute15 minutes
  • Congratulations and Continuous Learning Journey4 minutes
3 readingsTotal 18 minutes
  • Comparing Git workflows: What you should know6 minutes
  • Understanding the pyproject.toml Specification 6 minutes
  • VS Code Remote Development for ML Workflows 6 minutes
4 assignmentsTotal 65 minutes
  • Graded Quiz: ML Development Optimization 20 minutes
  • Hands-On Activity: Create a Feature Branch and Push ML Artifacts20 minutes
  • Practice Quiz: Branching Patterns, Commit Hygiene, Artifact Management 5 minutes
  • Hands-On Activity: Analyze Resource Metrics and Recommend Cost Optimization Actions20 minutes
1 ungraded labTotal 45 minutes
  • Create a Reproducible Poetry Environment for Your ML Workflow45 minutes

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