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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Deployment Options
- Trade-offs between hosted APIs and self-hosted solutions
- On-premises, edge, and air-gapped deployment patterns
- Single model versus model portfolio strategies
- Cost per decision comparison
Hardware Sizing and Capacity
- Memory footprint relative to parameter count
- CPU-only versus GPU acceleration
- Concurrency and throughput planning
- Allowing headroom for task length growth
Serving Stacks
- vLLM and SGLang options
- llama.cpp and GGUF execution
- Ollama for local development
- Selecting stacks based on decision workload characteristics
Quantization Without Losing Calibration
- Precision formats and memory savings
- Measuring quality and calibration loss
- Per-tensor and importance-aware variants
- Acceptance testing post-quantization
Latency Engineering
- Median versus tail latency
- Latency trends with context length
- Warm starts and model caching
- Batching multiple decision queries
Edge and Constrained Environments
- Small decision models on CPUs
- Apple Silicon and embedded deployments
- Offline operation and update strategies
- Air-gapped weight distribution
Containerization and Scaling
- Image design for model serving
- Volume and cache management
- Horizontal scaling and routing
- Resource limits and GPU sharing
Observability
- Request, latency, and error metrics
- Confidence distribution monitoring
- Tracking decision outcomes and escalations
- Alerting on calibration drift
Versioning and Rollout
- Model and adapter versioning
- Shadow and canary deployments
- Pinned model files for auditing
- Rollback procedures
Security and Multi-Tenancy
- Authentication and rate limiting
- Tenant isolation for prompts and logs
- Network isolation and egress control
- Audit logging of decisions
Requirements
- Experience with Linux administration and containers.
- Familiarity with model inference servers and GPU management.
- Foundational understanding of REST APIs, load balancing, and monitoring.
Target Audience
- MLOps and platform engineers managing inference infrastructure
- SRE teams supporting AI services
- AI engineers deploying decision models on-premises
- Architects designing air-gapped or regulated AI deployments
