The speed of today’s software development lifecycle is only getting faster. However, the complexity of today’s pipelines make it hard to track and manage the processes software releases must go through. With increasing regulatory pressures, ensuring and proving your software has gone through the necessary quality controls is no longer nice to have – it has become a necessity.

Just like in traditional software development, creating AI applications isn’t a one size fits all approach. However, many of the challenges and concerns facing AI/ML development teams share common threads – difficulties getting models to production, tangled infrastructure, data quality, security issues, and so on.

The synergy between DevOps and MLOps is more crucial now than ever. However, merging these two paradigms into a coherent software supply chain poses a unique set of challenges that can leave teams feeling overwhelmed. From the complexities of managing model dependencies to adapting conventional CI/CD tools for advanced machine learning (ML) workflows, the path to integration isn’t without its twists and turns.