joaopmatias / mlops-zoomcamp

Free MLOps course from DataTalks.Club

MLOps Zoomcamp

Our MLOps Zoomcamp course

• Sign up here: https://airtable.com/shrCb8y6eTbPKwSTL
• Register in DataTalks.Club's Slack
• Join the #course-mlops-zoomcamp channel
• Tweet about the course!
• Start watching course videos! Course playlist
• Technical FAQ
• For announcements, join our Telegram channel

Taking the course

2023 Cohort

• Start: 15 May 2023 (Monday) at 17:00 CET
• Registration link: https://airtable.com/shrCb8y6eTbPKwSTL
• Subscribe to our public Google Calendar (it works from Desktop only)
• Cohort folder

Self-paced mode

All the materials of the course are freely available, so that you can take the course at your own pace

• Follow the suggested syllabus (see below) week by week
• You don't need to fill in the registration form. Just start watching the videos and join Slack
• Check FAQ if you have problems
• If you can't find a solution to your problem in FAQ, ask for help in Slack

Overview

Objective

Teach practical aspects of productionizing ML services — from training and experimenting to model deployment and monitoring.

Target audience

Data scientists and ML engineers. Also software engineers and data engineers interested in learning about putting ML in production.

Pre-requisites

• Python
• Docker
• Being comfortable with command line
• Prior exposure to machine learning (at work or from other courses, e.g. from ML Zoomcamp)
• Prior programming experience (at least 1+ year)

Asking for help in Slack

The best way to get support is to use DataTalks.Club's Slack. Join the #course-mlops-zoomcamp channel.

To make discussions in Slack more organized:

• Follow these recommendations when asking for help
• Read the DataTalks.Club community guidelines

Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction

• What is MLOps
• MLOps maturity model
• Running example: NY Taxi trips dataset
• Why do we need MLOps
• Course overview
• Environment preparation
• Homework

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Module 2: Experiment tracking and model management

• Experiment tracking intro
• Getting started with MLflow
• Experiment tracking with MLflow
• Saving and loading models with MLflow
• Model registry
• MLflow in practice
• Homework

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Module 3: Orchestration and ML Pipelines

• Workflow orchestration
• Prefect 2.0
• Turning a notebook into a pipeline
• Deployment of Prefect flow
• Homework

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Module 4: Model Deployment

• Three ways of model deployment: Online (web and streaming) and offline (batch)
• Web service: model deployment with Flask
• Streaming: consuming events with AWS Kinesis and Lambda
• Batch: scoring data offline
• Homework

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Module 5: Model Monitoring

• Monitoring ML-based services
• Monitoring web services with Prometheus, Evidently, and Grafana
• Monitoring batch jobs with Prefect, MongoDB, and Evidently

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Module 6: Best Practices

• Testing: unit, integration
• Python: linting and formatting
• Pre-commit hooks and makefiles
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Homework

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Project

• End-to-end project with all the things above

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Instructors

• Cristian Martinez
• Jeff Hale
• Alexey Grigorev
• Emeli Dral
• Sejal Vaidya

Other courses from DataTalks.Club:

• Machine Learning Zoomcamp - free 4-month course about ML Engineering
• Data Engineering Zoomcamp - free 9-week course about Data Engineering

FAQ

I want to start preparing for the course. What can I do?

If you haven't used Flask or Docker

• Check Module 5 from ML Zoomcamp
• The section about Docker from Data Engineering Zoomcamp could also be useful

If you have no previous experience with ML

• Check Module 1 from ML Zoomcamp for an overview
• Module 3 will also be helpful if you want to learn Scikit-Learn (we'll use it in this course)
• We'll also use XGBoost. You don't have to know it well, but if you want to learn more about it, refer to module 6 of ML Zoomcamp

I registered but haven't received an invite link. Is it normal?

Yes, we haven't automated it. You'll get a mail from us eventually, don't worry.

If you want to make sure you don't miss anything:

• Register in our Slack and join the #course-mlops-zoomcamp channel
• Subscribe to our YouTube channel

Is it going to be live?

No and yes. There will be two parts:

• Lectures: Pre-recorded, you can watch them when it's convenient for you.
• Office hours: Live on Mondays (17:00 CET), but recorded, so you can watch later.

I just joined. Can I still get a certificate?

• To get a certificate, you need to complete a project
• There will be two attempts to do a project
• First: in July, second: in August
• If you manage to finish all the materials till August, and successfully finish the project, you'll get the certificate

Supporters and partners

Thanks to the course sponsors for making it possible to create this course