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Deploying and Maintaining Production AI Systems

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Deploying and Maintaining Production AI Systems

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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.

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February 2026

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26 assignments¹

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There are 13 modules in this course

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.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment

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.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

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.

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3 videos1 reading3 assignments

You will systematically inspect deployment manifests, identify dependency conflicts, and validate environment compatibility to prevent runtime failures in GenAI system deployments.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

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.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment

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.

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3 videos1 reading3 assignments

You will gain expertise in systematically diagnosing ML pipeline performance issues through methodical log analysis and targeted investigation of pipeline stages.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

You will develop critical evaluation skills to audit CI/CD workflows against AI governance standards and ensure safe rollback mechanisms for production ML systems

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3 videos2 assignments

You will architect comprehensive automated systems that detect data drift, trigger intelligent retraining workflows, and safely promote validated models to production

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3 videos1 reading3 assignments

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.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment

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.

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3 videos2 readings2 assignments

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.

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3 videos1 reading3 assignments

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.

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1 video5 readings1 assignment

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