Summary

Information Technology has evolved a lot since machine learning and artificial intelligence have replaced natural language processing as effective approaches to handling unstructured human communications. The real world is unstructured, and the task of IT is to bring order to confusion. With cloud computing comes the commodification of resources that were unheard of 25 years ago. With the future advent of quantum computing, the previous pattern of software, processes, and algorithms preceding the advent of hardware is again playing out. When that key processing capability comes online, you can expect the best practices and vision that are aligned with that future to remain effective for a long time.

Since many MLOps life cycle best practices apply lessons learned from DevOps, you can expect these processes to become more unified in time. As with many cutting-edge technologies, you will see a bloom of third-party vendor offerings, open source solutions, and cloud provider...