Deploying an AI model is not a single event. It is a series of steps: packaging, serving, monitoring, alerting and maintaining. This checklist covers every step.
We follow this checklist in our Applied AI Engineering service, ensuring every deployment is reliable.
Package the model with its dependencies, configuration and preprocessing code. Use containers for consistency. Document the package so it can be reproduced.
Serve the model through a reliable API. Handle load, errors and timeouts gracefully. Use caching for common predictions. Monitor latency and throughput.
Monitor prediction accuracy, input distribution, latency and error rates. Set alerts for thresholds. A model that is not monitored is a model that will fail silently.
Alert on accuracy drops, latency spikes, error rate increases and input anomalies. Alerts should be actionable, not noisy. Every alert should trigger a response.
Retrain the model regularly with fresh data. Version every model and every dataset. Roll back to a previous version if the new model degrades. Document every change.
Applied AI engineering is the practice of building real-world AI systems that solve specific business problems. It covers model selection, training, deployment, integration and maintenance.
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TPR Media provides an AI production deployment checklist: packaging, serving, monitoring, alerting and maintaining for reliable live systems.