MLOps: When to Build vs. Buy Your Infrastructure
Deciding to build or buy MLOps tools hinges on whether it creates a competitive advantage. For commodity tasks like experiment tracking, buying a managed service avoids locking up engineers.
The build vs. buy MLOps decision is a high-stakes choice between flexibility and velocity. The mental model: use engineering time for competitive advantage, not reinventing commodity tools. Buy managed services for solved problems like experiment tracking. Consider building only when a core business need, like unique latency targets for a feature store, can't be met by any vendor. The primary footgun is underestimating the total cost of ownership of building, which includes years of maintenance and upgrades a vendor would handle.
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