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Master the critical skills needed to maintain AI systems in production through this hands-on course designed for DevOps engineers, ML engineers, and SREs. As AI deployments grow more complex, the ability to patch safely, recover from incidents quickly, and maintain operational health becomes essential.
Through realistic crisis scenarios, you'll learn systematic patching strategies that minimize downtime, conduct blameless post-mortems that transform failures into knowledge, and build monitoring systems that detect issues before users notice. Work with industry tools like MLflow while practicing with real incident data.
You'll tackle challenges like emergency vulnerability patches, investigate mysterious model failures, and design monitoring for a million-user scale. Each module features immersive scenarios where you make critical decisions under pressure.
Ideal for DevOps, ML engineers, and SREs managing AI systems in production. Perfect for those seeking to strengthen skills in monitoring, incident response, and reliability, or preparing for senior operations roles.
Basic knowledge of AI/ML concepts, familiarity with deployment pipelines, and some experience in incident management are recommended for successful course completion.
By course completion, you'll confidently handle production AI incidents, implement preventive measures, and lead operational excellence initiatives. Perfect for professionals managing AI in production or preparing for senior DevOps/SRE roles.
Generate systematic patching strategies for AI models and ML frameworks, build comprehensive dependency maps for complex ML systems, and implement staged deployment protocols with canary testing and automated rollback mechanisms.
What's included
4 videos2 readings1 peer review
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4 videos•Total 37 minutes
Welcome to AI System Patching•4 minutes
AI Patch Categories and Risk Assessment•9 minutes
Dependency Management for ML Systems•10 minutes
Staged Deployments and Canary Testing•13 minutes
2 readings•Total 10 minutes
Welcome to the Course: Course Overview•5 minutes
Google's Site Reliability Engineering: Chapter on Gradual Rollouts•5 minutes
1 peer review•Total 20 minutes
Hands-On-Learning: Patch TensorFlow Vulnerability: TechCorps Production Crisis•20 minutes
Incident Review and Root Cause Analysis
Module 2•1 hour to complete
Module details
Facilitate blameless post-mortem discussions for AI system failures, apply structured root cause analysis frameworks to categorize AI-specific failure patterns, and transform incident knowledge into actionable prevention strategies through organizational learning systems.
What's included
3 videos1 reading1 peer review
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3 videos•Total 31 minutes
Building Blameless Post-Mortem Culture•10 minutes
AI-Specific Failure Taxonomy•10 minutes
From Incidents to Institutional Knowledge•11 minutes
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
Etsy's Guide to Blameless Post-Mortems•5 minutes
1 peer review•Total 20 minutes
Hands-On-Learning: Investigate Model Drift: HealthAI's Patient Risk Crisis•20 minutes
Operational Health and Rapid Recovery
Module 3•2 hours to complete
Module details
Configure AI-specific monitoring dashboards with drift detection and performance metrics, design incident response runbooks with decision trees and escalation paths, and implement automated recovery mechanisms including self-healing systems and intelligent alerting.
What's included
4 videos1 reading1 assignment2 peer reviews
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4 videos•Total 32 minutes
AI-Specific Monitoring Metrics•7 minutes
Building Effective Recovery Runbooks•7 minutes
Automated Recovery and Self-Healing Systems•14 minutes
Your Journey to AI Operations Excellence•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
DataDog's Guide to ML Monitoring•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 20 minutes
Harden AI: Patch and Recover Incidents Fast•20 minutes
2 peer reviews•Total 80 minutes
Hands-On-Learning: Design Monitoring Strategy: RetailBot's Black Friday Preparation•20 minutes
Project: End-to-End Crisis Simulation: MegaBank's AI Meltdown•60 minutes
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