What is MLOps?

MLOps, short for Machine Learning Operations, is the practice of integrating machine learning
(ML) systems into production environments, while ensuring that they’re continuously tested,
monitored, and retrained. It bridges the gap between data scientists who develop models and the
operations teams responsible for deploying and managing applications in production.
Think of MLOps as a way of ensuring that your ML models aren’t just built once and left in a
drawer. Instead, they’re continuously refined and deployed, just like any other software product you
use daily.
Imagine you’re using a recommendation system in your favorite shopping app. Every time you
browse, a machine learning model is working in the background to suggest products for you. But
what happens when user behavior changes, or new products are added? The model needs to adapt,
update, and keep up with the latest trends. That’s where MLOps comes in.
In this tutorial, we’ll take a model from its initial development in Google Colab all the way to a
production-ready system, deployable in a scalable environment using Flask and Docker. Whether
you’re just starting out or looking to solidify your understanding of MLOps, we’ll guide you
through each step with hands-on examples, code snippets, and clear explanations.

Important Materials:
• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/NoManNayeem/MLOps-Flask-Product-Recommendation-
System

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• Colab Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1HrWT4Zy7ivKn-
09fWu0gL8iKxg-UV6QJ?usp=sharing
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Synthetic Dataset Generation

When working with machine learning models, having high-quality data is crucial. However, real-
world data is often difficult to access, and it might not always be suitable for experimentation or
model building, especially in the early stages. That’s where synthetic datasets come into play.
In this section, we’ll focus on generating a realistic synthetic dataset that simulates user
interactions with products. Imagine a recommendation system, like those used in online shopping or
streaming platforms. For each user, the system logs their ratings or interactions with different
products. This information becomes the backbone of any recommendation system.
But what if you don’t have access to this data? The solution is to generate synthetic data that
mimics real-world interactions between users and products.
Why Synthetic Data?
Synthetic data allows us to:
• Simulate Realistic Interactions: We can model how users interact with products and create
a dataset that is representative of those behaviors.
• Experiment with Models: It’s perfect for experimenting with different machine learning
models without relying on sensitive or proprietary data.
• Handle Data Scarcity: When real-world data is limited, synthetic datasets can fill the gap.
Let’s dive into the code to generate a synthetic dataset for a product recommendation system.
# Import necessary libraries
import pandas as pd # To handle data in tabular form
import numpy as np # To generate random data
# Step 1: Define the number of users and products
# Let's assume we have 1000 users and 500 products in our ecommerce platform.
num_users = 1000
num_products = 500
# Step 2: Generating the Users Data
# Each user has an ID, age, gender, and location.
user_data = {
'user_id': np.arange(1, num_users + 1), # Generate user IDs from 1 to 1000
'age': np.random.randint(18, 70, size=num_users), # Random ages between 18
and 70
'gender': np.random.choice(['M', 'F'], size=num_users), # Randomly assign
gender as Male (M) or Female (F)
'location': np.random.choice(['Urban', 'Suburban', 'Rural'], size=num_users)
# Randomly assign location type
}
# Convert the user data dictionary into a pandas DataFrame
users_df = pd.DataFrame(user_data)
# Step 3: Generating the Products Data
# Each product has an ID, category, price, and rating.
product_data = {
'product_id': np.arange(1, num_products + 1), # Generate product IDs from 1
to 500
'category': np.random.choice(['Electronics', 'Clothing', 'Home', 'Books'],
size=num_products), # Randomly assign product category
'price': np.round(np.random.uniform(5, 500, size=num_products), 2), #
Random prices between $5 and $500, rounded to 2 decimal places
'rating': np.round(np.random.uniform(1, 5, size=num_products), 1) # Random
ratings between 1 and 5, rounded to 1 decimal place
}
# Convert the product data dictionary into a pandas DataFrame
products_df = pd.DataFrame(product_data)
# Step 4: Generating the User-Product Interaction Data (Purchase History or
Ratings)
# We simulate how users interact with products. For example, users can rate or
buy products.
interaction_data = {
'user_id': np.random.choice(users_df['user_id'], size=5000), # Randomly
select users who interacted with products
'product_id': np.random.choice(products_df['product_id'], size=5000), #
Randomly select products that were interacted with
'rating': np.random.randint(1, 6, size=5000), # Assign random ratings (1 to
5 stars) for these interactions
'timestamp': pd.date_range(start='2023-01-01', periods=5000, freq='T') #
Generate random timestamps for interactions, 1 minute apart
}
# Convert the interaction data dictionary into a pandas DataFrame
interactions_df = pd.DataFrame(interaction_data)
# Let's check the first few rows of each dataset
users_df.head(), products_df.head(), interactions_df.head()

With this code, we simulate a scenario where 1000 users interact with 500 products, providing data
on user demographics, product details, and user-product interactions (like ratings). This dataset can
now be used to train a recommendation system.

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Data Preprocessing
Preprocessing is a vital step before feeding any data into a machine learning model. Without this
step, your model might not work properly, or it could be biased or inaccurate. The main goal of
preprocessing is to clean and format the data in a way that the model can easily interpret.

Let’s dive into some common preprocessing techniques, focusing on the recommendation system
dataset we generated earlier.

Preprocessing Steps:
1. Handling Missing Values:
It’s common to encounter missing values in real-world datasets. For example, users might
not have rated certain products, or products might have incomplete details. In this case, we’ll
check for missing values and handle them accordingly (although for this synthetic dataset,
we’re unlikely to find any missing values).
2. Encoding Categorical Variables:
Machine learning models work with numerical data, so we need to convert categorical
variables like gender and category into numerical format. For this, we use Label
Encoding—a simple technique that converts categorical labels into integers.
 3. Creating a User-Product Rating Matrix:
We need to convert the interactions dataset into a format that machine learning models can
understand — a matrix where each row represents a user, each column represents a product,
and the values are the ratings given by the users.
4. Train-Test Split:
To evaluate our model, we’ll split the interaction data into training and testing sets. The
model will be trained on one portion of the data and evaluated on the other to measure its
performance.
Here’s the code to implement these preprocessing steps:
# Import necessary libraries for pre-processing
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
# Step 1: Handle missing values
# Checking for missing values in all datasets
print("Missing values in users data:\n", users_df.isnull().sum())
print("Missing values in products data:\n", products_df.isnull().sum())
print("Missing values in interactions data:\n", interactions_df.isnull().sum())
# Step 2: Encoding categorical variables
label_encoder = LabelEncoder()
# Encode the gender column in users data (M -> 0, F -> 1)
users_df['gender_encoded'] = label_encoder.fit_transform(users_df['gender'])
# Encode the location column in users data
users_df['location_encoded'] = label_encoder.fit_transform(users_df['location'])
# Encode the category column in products data
products_df['category_encoded'] =
label_encoder.fit_transform(products_df['category'])
# Step 3: Create a User-Product Rating Matrix
user_product_matrix = interactions_df.pivot_table(index='user_id',
columns='product_id', values='rating').fillna(0)
# Step 4: Train-test split
train_data, test_data = train_test_split(interactions_df, test_size=0.2,
random_state=42)
# Display the first few rows of the pre-processed data to verify
print("User-Product Matrix:\n", user_product_matrix.head())
print("Train Data Sample:\n", train_data.head())
print("Test Data Sample:\n", test_data.head())

With this code, we successfully:

• Handled missing values (if any).
• Encoded categorical features into numerical values.
• Created a user-product matrix for further analysis.
• Split the data into training and test sets for model evaluation.

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Model Building and Training
Now that we’ve prepared our data, it’s time to move on to building and training the machine
learning model. For our recommendation system, we’ll be using a collaborative filtering
technique known as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). SVD is one of the most popular
techniques used in recommendation systems, especially when working with matrix data, like the
user-product interactions we generated earlier.

Here’s the step-by-step process we’ll follow to build and train the model:

Model Building Steps:

1. Prepare the Data for Surprise:
The Surprise library, which we’re using to build the recommendation model, expects data in
 a specific format: three columns representing the user_id, product_id, and the
rating. We’ll use our preprocessed interaction data to feed into this format.
2. Train-Test Split:
Just like in traditional machine learning, we split the data into training and testing sets. In
our case, we’ll use 80% of the data for training and 20% for testing, so we can evaluate how
well the model performs on unseen data.
3. Train the Model (SVD):
We’ll use Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for collaborative filtering. SVD breaks
down the user-product interaction matrix into smaller matrices that represent the users and
products in a lower-dimensional space. This helps us predict missing ratings.
4. Test the Model:
Once the model is trained, we’ll test it on the test data to see how well it predicts ratings for
products that users haven’t interacted with yet.
5. Evaluate Model Performance:
Finally, we evaluate the performance of the model using Root Mean Squared Error
(RMSE), which gives us an idea of how far off the predicted ratings are from the actual
ratings.

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Here’s the code to implement these steps:
# Install the Surprise library
!pip install scikit-surprise
# Import necessary libraries
from surprise import Dataset, Reader, SVD
from surprise.model_selection import train_test_split as
surprise_train_test_split
from surprise.model_selection import cross_validate
from surprise import accuracy
# Step 1: Prepare the data for Surprise
reader = Reader(rating_scale=(1, 5)) # The rating scale in our dataset is from
1 to 5
data = Dataset.load_from_df(interactions_df[['user_id', 'product_id',
'rating']], reader)
# Step 2: Train-test split
trainset, testset = surprise_train_test_split(data, test_size=0.2)
# Step 3: Train the SVD model
model = SVD() # Initialize the SVD model
model.fit(trainset) # Train the model on the training set
# Step 4: Test the model on the test set
predictions = model.test(testset)
# Step 5: Evaluate the performance using RMSE
rmse = accuracy.rmse(predictions)

This code will help us:

• Train an SVD model to predict user-product ratings.
 • Test the model’s accuracy and evaluate its performance using RMSE (a lower RMSE
indicates better performance).

Explanation of SVD:
SVD takes a complex matrix (in this case, the user-product matrix) and breaks it into simpler
components, which makes it easier to predict missing values (i.e., which products a user might like
based on their previous interactions).
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Saving the Model

Once we’ve trained our machine learning model, it’s crucial to save it so that we can deploy it or
use it in the future without having to retrain it every time. In this section, we’ll go over how to save
the trained model to a file and, if you’re working in an environment like Google Colab, how to
download the model directly to your local machine.

Key Steps for Saving the Model:

1. Why Save the Model?
Training a machine learning model can take time and resources. By saving the model after
it’s trained, we can reuse it for future predictions without having to retrain it from scratch.
 2. How to Save the Model?
We’ll use Python’s built-in pickle library to serialize and save our trained model to a file.
Pickle allows us to convert Python objects into a byte stream that can be written to a file and
reloaded later.
3. Download the Model (optional):
If you’re working in a cloud environment like Google Colab, you might want to download
the saved model to your local machine. We can use Colab’s built-in files.download()
function to easily download the model file.
Here’s the code to save and download the trained model:
import pickle
# Step 1: Save the trained SVD model to a file
model_filename = 'svd_model.pkl'
with open(model_filename, 'wb') as model_file:
pickle.dump(model, model_file)
print(f"Model saved to {model_filename}")
# If working in Google Colab, download the saved model file
from google.colab import files
files.download(model_filename)

This simple process ensures that our model is safely stored for future use. Once saved, the model
can be loaded and used to make predictions without the need to retrain it. This is particularly useful
when deploying machine learning models in production.

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Monitoring Model Performance

Evaluating the performance of a machine learning model is an essential part of the MLOps
lifecycle. Once the model is trained and tested, we need to assess how well it performs using
various evaluation metrics. In this section, we’ll look at two common metrics: Root Mean Squared
Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE), both of which measure how close the predicted
ratings are to the actual ratings.
Model Evaluation Metrics:
1. Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE):
RMSE measures the average magnitude of the errors between the predicted and actual
ratings. A lower RMSE indicates better model performance. It’s particularly sensitive to
large errors, as it squares the differences before averaging.
2. Mean Absolute Error (MAE):
MAE calculates the average absolute differences between predicted and actual ratings. It’s a
simpler metric than RMSE and is often used to get a more intuitive sense of prediction
accuracy.
3. Performance Report:
By combining these metrics into a simple performance report, we can better understand the
accuracy of our model and identify areas for improvement.
Here’s the code to evaluate the model using both RMSE and MAE, and generate a performance
report:
# Step 1: Calculate MAE (Mean Absolute Error)
mae = accuracy.mae(predictions)
# Step 2: Generate a basic performance report
performance_report = {
'RMSE': rmse,
 'MAE': mae
}
# Display the performance report
print("Model Performance Report:")
for metric, score in performance_report.items():
print(f"{metric}: {score:.4f}")

Explanation of Metrics:
• RMSE helps highlight models that make large prediction errors, making it useful for cases
where significant errors are more problematic.
• MAE gives a clearer and more intuitive sense of how far off the predictions are, without
heavily penalizing large errors.
Both metrics are used together to give a balanced view of the model’s accuracy and stability.

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Flask Application Development

Now that we have our machine learning model trained and saved, the next step is to build a web
application that allows users to interact with the model. We’ll use Flask, a lightweight web
framework in Python, to create a simple interface where users can select a user ID and a product ID
to receive a recommendation.
In this section, we’ll cover:
• Building the Flask application to serve the model’s recommendations.
• Creating a user interface for users to input their selections.
• Dockerizing the Flask application for easy deployment.

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Key Steps for Flask App Development:

1. Setting up the Flask App:
We’ll create a simple Flask application that allows users to input a user ID and a product ID.
Upon submission, the app will use the trained SVD model to predict the rating for that
combination.
2. Building the User Interface:
Using HTML and Bootstrap, we’ll create a clean and responsive form that takes user and
product IDs as inputs. After submitting the form, the app will display the predicted rating.
3. Dockerizing the Flask App:
To make our app easier to deploy across different environments, we’ll use Docker. Docker
allows us to package the Flask app and its dependencies into a container that can be run
anywhere.
Project Structure:
📂│ MLOps_Flask_Recommendation_System
├── 📂 model
│ └── svd_model.pkl # Trained SVD model file

├── 📂 templates
│
# HTML Templates for Flask app
│ ├── index.html # Home page for selecting user/product
│ └── result.html # Page displaying predicted recommendation
│
├──
│
📂 venv # Virtual environment directory (optional)

├── .dockerignore # Files/directories to ignore in Docker

build
├── .gitignore # Files/directories to ignore in Git
repository
├── app.py # Main Flask application file
├── Dockerfile # Docker configuration file for Flask app
├── docker-compose.yml # Docker Compose file for running app in
containers
├── requirements.txt # Python dependencies
├── README.md # Project description and instructions

app.py:
from flask import Flask, render_template, request
import pickle
import os
# Initialize Flask app
app = Flask(__name__)
# Load the saved SVD model
model_path = os.path.join('model', 'svd_model.pkl')
with open(model_path, 'rb') as model_file:
model = pickle.load(model_file)
# Dummy data for user and product IDs
users = list(range(1, 1001))
products = list(range(1, 501))
@app.route('/')
def index():
return render_template('index.html', users=users, products=products)
@app.route('/recommend', methods=['POST'])
def recommend():
user_id = int(request.form['user_id'])
product_id = int(request.form['product_id'])
prediction = model.predict(user_id, product_id)
return render_template('result.html', user_id=user_id,
product_id=product_id, predicted_rating=prediction.est)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=5000)

User Interface (UI):

index.html:
This page will allow users to select a user ID and a product ID from dropdown lists, and submit
their request to get a recommendation.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Product Recommendation</title>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha3/dist/css/
bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container mt-5">
<h1 class="text-center">Product Recommendation System</h1>
<form action="/recommend" method="POST" class="mt-4">
<div class="mb-3">
<label for="user_id" class="form-label">Select User ID</label>
<select name="user_id" class="form-select">
{% for user in users %}
<option value="{{ user }}">{{ user }}</option>
{% endfor %}
</select>
</div>
<div class="mb-3">
<label for="product_id" class="form-label">Select Product
ID</label>
<select name="product_id" class="form-select">
{% for product in products %}
<option value="{{ product }}">{{ product }}</option>
{% endfor %}
</select>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Get
Recommendation</button>
</form>
</div>
<script
src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundl
e.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
result.html:
Once a recommendation is made, this page will display the predicted rating for the user and product
selected.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Recommendation Result</title>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha3/dist/css/
bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container mt-5">
<h1 class="text-center">Recommendation Result</h1>
<p class="text-center">Predicted Rating for User ID
<strong>{{ user_id }}</strong> and Product ID <strong>{{ product_id }}</strong>
is <strong>{{ predicted_rating }}</strong>.</p>
<div class="text-center">
<a href="/" class="btn btn-primary">Go Back</a>
</div>
</div>
<script
src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundl
e.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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Dockerization
Dockerfile:
We’ll create a Dockerfile to containerize the Flask application, making it easier to run on any
machine or in a cloud environment.
# Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
FROM python:3.10-slim
# Set the working directory in the container
WORKDIR /app
# Install build dependencies and Python dev tools
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
gcc \
build-essential \
python3-dev \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Copy the current directory contents into the container at /app
COPY . /app
# Install any needed packages specified in requirements.txt
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
# Expose port 5000 to the outside world
EXPOSE 5000
# Define environment variable
ENV FLASK_APP=app.py
# Run the application
CMD ["flask", "run", "--host=0.0.0.0"]

docker-compose.yml:
We’ll use Docker Compose to manage the container setup and expose the app on port 5000.
version: '3.8'
services:
flask_app:
build: .
ports:
- "5000:5000"
volumes:
- .:/app
environment:
FLASK_APP: app.py
command: flask run --host=0.0.0.0

requirements.txt:
Here’s a simple requirements file to ensure all dependencies are installed.
Flask
scikit-surprise
numpy==1.21.6

This Flask app will allow users to input a user ID and product ID to receive a recommendation
based on the previously trained model. It’s fully containerized using Docker for easy deployment.
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Dockerizing the Flask App

Once the Flask app is built and running locally, the next step is to ensure that it can be deployed
consistently in different environments. Docker allows us to package the entire application, including
its dependencies, into a container that can run on any machine, making deployment much easier.
Key Concepts for Dockerizing the Flask App:
1. Why Docker?
Docker provides a standardized environment for your application to run, no matter where it
is deployed. This prevents issues like “it works on my machine” by ensuring the same setup
across development, staging, and production environments.
2. Dockerfile
A Dockerfile contains instructions for Docker to build the container. It specifies the base
image, installs necessary dependencies, and runs the Flask app.
 3. Docker Compose
Docker Compose allows us to manage multi-container Docker applications. In this case, we
only need one container for our Flask app, but Compose makes it easy to configure ports and
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Dockerfile Explanation:
Here is the Dockerfile that builds the Flask app in a container.
# Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
FROM python:3.10-slim
# Set the working directory in the container
WORKDIR /app
# Install build dependencies and Python dev tools
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
gcc \
build-essential \
python3-dev \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Copy the current directory contents into the container at /app
COPY . /app
# Install any needed packages specified in requirements.txt
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
# Expose port 5000 to the outside world
EXPOSE 5000
# Define environment variable
ENV FLASK_APP=app.py
# Run the application
CMD ["flask", "run", "--host=0.0.0.0"]

Explanation:
• Base Image: We use python:3.10-slim as our base image, a minimal Python image.
• Working Directory: We set the working directory inside the container to /app.
• Install Dependencies: We install necessary build dependencies, copy the app files, and
install the required Python packages.
• Expose Port: We expose port 5000 so that the app can be accessed externally.
• Run Flask: The Flask app is started using CMD.
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docker-compose.yml:
Docker Compose makes it easier to manage and run the container. Here’s the docker-
compose.yml file:
version: '3.8'
services:
flask_app:
build: .
ports:
- "5000:5000"
volumes:
- .:/app
environment:
FLASK_APP: app.py
command: flask run --host=0.0.0.0

Explanation:
• Build: The build: . command tells Docker Compose to build the image from the current
directory.
• Ports: Port 5000 of the container is mapped to port 5000 on the host machine.
• Volumes: We map the project directory to the container to enable easy updates to the app
code.

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Running the App with Docker Compose

To build and run the Flask app inside a Docker container, run the following commands:
• Build the Docker Image:
docker-compose build

• Start the Container:

docker-compose up

After running these commands, the Flask app will be accessible on http://localhost:5000.
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Advanced Steps and What’s Next

Now that we have a working Flask application, model integration, and containerized deployment
using Docker, there are several advanced steps you can take to further improve the scalability,
automation, and monitoring of your project.

Steps Ahead:
1. CI/CD Pipeline: Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) ensure that
every time new code is pushed to the repository, the changes are automatically tested, built,
and deployed to a staging or production environment. Tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or
GitHub Actions can be used to automate these tasks.
2. Monitoring and Logging: Monitoring the health and performance of your application is
crucial for production systems. You can integrate monitoring tools like Prometheus and
Grafana to track metrics such as response times, error rates, and resource usage.
Additionally, setting up logging frameworks like ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash,
Kibana) will help in tracking issues by collecting and analyzing logs.
3. Orchestration with Kubernetes: For larger-scale systems, orchestration platforms like
Kubernetes are essential. Kubernetes can manage multiple Docker containers across
different servers, automatically handling load balancing, scaling, and failover, making it
suitable for highly scalable microservices architectures.
4. Model Versioning with MLflow: As the project evolves, keeping track of different versions
of your model is important for reproducibility. Tools like MLflow allow you to track
experiments, manage model versions, and deploy models easily. It also helps in comparing
different models to choose the best-performing one.
5. Hyperparameter Tuning: In order to improve the accuracy of the recommendation model,
you can experiment with hyperparameter tuning using tools like GridSearchCV or
RandomizedSearchCV. This allows you to optimize the parameters of your SVD model to
achieve better performance.
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Exploring Kubernetes for Orchestration

Once the app grows, you can move from Docker Compose to Kubernetes for scaling and managing
multiple containers across clusters. Kubernetes handles:
 • Load balancing: Ensuring traffic is evenly distributed across containers.
• Autoscaling: Automatically scaling up or down based on traffic and load.
• Self-healing: Restarting failed containers automatically.

Conclusion and Future Steps

In this tutorial, we’ve covered the complete MLOps lifecycle for building and deploying a
recommendation system. From generating synthetic data and training a model to building a Flask
web app and Dockerizing it for deployment, we’ve explored the essentials for integrating machine
learning into real-world applications.