Ten Years of Deploying to Production
Summary
Brandon Vincent documents a shift from a hands-off operations culture to a platform engineering approach for production, driven by the need to speed deployments and improve reliability for ML models. The post details concrete steps—learning DevOps practices, implementing Chef, creating an internal PyPI, version tagging, and deploying to production with better visibility. It also contrasts 2018's manual, ticket-driven changes with 2026's emphasis on developer experience and self-service CI/CD.