"Docker and Model Serving: Deploy ML APIs with FastAPI and ONNX is designed for ML engineers, MLOps practitioners, and backend developers who want to take models from notebooks to production. You'll learn to build Docker containers for ML workloads, design scalable REST APIs with FastAPI, serialize models with ONNX and SavedModel, and deploy with zero-downtime strategies like blue-green and canary releases.

Model Serving Systems: Containers, APIs & Scalability

Model Serving Systems: Containers, APIs & Scalability
This course is part of Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Specialization

Instructor: Board Infinity
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What you'll learn
Build optimized Docker images and multi-container ML apps using Docker Compose and multi-stage builds
Design scalable REST APIs with FastAPI, Pydantic validation, versioning, and error handling
Scale ML serving with async queues, load balancing, and latency profiling for production workloads
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Taught in English
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