
What we’re about
MLOps or ML Ops is a set of practices that aims to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production reliably and efficiently. The word is a compound of "machine learning" and the continuous development practice of DevOps in the software field. Machine learning models are tested and developed in isolated experimental systems. When an algorithm is ready to be launched,
MLOps is practiced between Data Scientists, DevOps, and Machine Learning engineers to transition the algorithm to production systems. Similar to DevOps or DataOps approaches, MLOps seeks to increase automation and improve the quality of production models, while also focusing on business and regulatory requirements. While MLOps started as a set of best practices, it is slowly evolving into an independent approach to ML lifecycle management.
MLOps applies to the entire lifecycle - from integrating with model generation (software development lifecycle, continuous integration/continuous delivery), orchestration, and deployment, to health, diagnostics, governance, and business metrics. According to Gartner, MLOps is a subset of ModelOps.
MLOps is focused on the operationalization of ML models, while ModelOps covers the operationalization of all types of AI models.
Upcoming events
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Data Day Texas + AI 2026
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, 1900 University Avenue, Austin, TX, USLaunched in 2011, and quite possibly the longest running big data conference in the world, Data Day Texas returns in January with an international list of marquee presenters.
The core focus of this year's edition will be careers - becoming resilient in uncertain times.
Details and registration at Data Day Texas website.
This year's speakers include:
Joe Reis - co-author of bestselling Fundamentals of Data Engineering
Bill Inmon - father of the Data Warehouse (Wikipedia)
Abi Aryan - author of LLMOps: Managing Large Language Models in Production
Jessica Talisman - creator of the Ontology Pipeline
Chris Brousseau - co-author of LLMs in Production: From language models to successful products
Alex Merced - co-author of Apache Iceberg : The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) and the upcoming Apache Polaris (O'Reilly)
Jean-Georges Perrin - author of Spark In Action, and co-author of Implementing Data Mesh (O'Reilly)
Lena Hall - Data / AI Engineer - Host of AI with Lena Hall and Droid AI
Vaibhav Gupta - co-founder / CEO of Boundary, and creator of BAML - the first language for building agents.
Mark Freeman - co-author of Data Contracts (O'Reilly)
Jonathan Ellis - co-founder of DataStax, and OG shepherd of Cassandra.
Adriano Vlad-Starrabba - creator of Prometheux
Thais Cooke - Linkedin Learning Instructor (SQL for Healthcare Professionals)
Weimo Liu - CEO and co-founder / creator of PuppyGraph
Sarah McKenna - CEO of Sequentum
Matthew Mullins CTO at Coginiti
Russell Spitzer
Matthew Sharp - co-author of LLMs in Production.
Dipankar Mazumdar - Dev Advocate at Cloudera.Also speaking:
Sanjeev Mohan
Kierra Dotson
Trey Blalock
Prashanth Rao
Joshua Shinavier
Arthur Bigeard
Shane Gibson
Jon Haddad
Jenna Jordan
Tim Berglund
Clair Sullivan
Jans Aasman
Lisa Cao
Juan Sequeda
Matthew Housley
Jonathan Mugan
and many more. For a complete list of speakers, visit datadaytexas.com.7 attendees
Past events
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