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Cake for
MLOps

Ship production-grade AI faster with open-source tools for tracking, deploying, and monitoring models on a cloud-agnostic platform.

 

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Overview

Getting a model to work in a notebook is one thing. Making it work in production (and doing it securely, scalably, and repeatably) is the real challenge. MLOps is the missing layer between experiments and real-world value, but most existing stacks are either rigid, proprietary, or overly complex.

Cake gives you a composable, cloud-agnostic MLOps foundation built from open-source tools. Track experiments, manage model versions, deploy with autoscaling, and monitor performance, all within a system that prioritizes flexibility, speed, and control.

Every component is open-source, swappable, and orchestrated with Cake-native workflows, so you’re never locked into a single vendor or architecture. You get the benefits of modularity without sacrificing enterprise-grade observability or operational rigor.

Key benefits

  • Accelerate deployment cycles: Automated pipelines and standardized workflows reduced the time from experimentation to production.

  • Improved reproducibility: Versioning of code, data, and models ensured experiments could be reliably replicated.

  • Strengthened compliance: Integrated governance and audit trails satisfied regulatory requirements without slowing innovation.

  • Reduced infrastructure costs: Standardized workflows and automation minimized wasted compute and avoided expensive rework.

  • Delivered built-in flexibility: Modular architecture allowed new open-source tools to be plugged in or swapped out without disrupting production workloads.

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Increase in
MLOps productivity

 

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Faster model deployment
to production

 

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Annual savings per
LLM project

THE CAKE DIFFERENCE

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From duct-taped pipelines to
secure, scalable MLOps

 

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DIY MLOps stacks

Glue code and guesswork at every stage: Teams spend more time stitching tools together than shipping value.

  • Every pipeline requires custom orchestration and infra setup
  • Observability, versioning, and access control are bolted on
  • Compliance, security, and auditability are manual and inconsistent
  • Hard to scale across teams, clouds, or deployment targets
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MLOps with Cake

Composable MLOps that works out of the box: Cake gives you a pre-integrated stack with observability, governance, and scale.

  • Pre-wired tools for training, tuning, deployment, and monitoring
  • Built-in lineage, model registry, and evals across workflows
  • SOC 2, HIPAA, and access controls ready from day one
  • Deploy across clouds or on-prem with full portability and control

EXAMPLE USE CASES

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How teams are using Cake’s
MLOps components

 

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Experiment tracking

Log datasets, hyperparameters, and results from notebooks and workflows for comparison and reuse.

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Model serving

Deploy models behind inference endpoints with autoscaling, versioning, and rollout strategies.

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Performance monitoring

Track latency, error rates, and drift with integrated metrics and alerts.

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Cross-environment model promotion

Move models seamlessly from dev to staging to production with consistent configs, versioning, and rollback support.

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Automated retraining pipelines

Trigger model retraining based on drift detection, data freshness, or business rules without manual intervention.

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Unified model and data lineage

Track which datasets, code versions, and parameters were used in every model run to support reproducibility and audits.

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"Our partnership with Cake has been a clear strategic choice – we're achieving the impact of two to three technical hires with the equivalent investment of half an FTE."

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Scott Stafford
Chief Enterprise Architect at Ping

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"With Cake we are conservatively saving at least half a million dollars purely on headcount."

CEO
InsureTech Company

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"Cake powers our complex, highly scaled AI infrastructure. Their platform accelerates our model development and deployment both on-prem and in the cloud"

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Felix Baldauf-Lenschen
CEO and Founder

COMPONENTS

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Tools that power Cake's MLOps stack

 

Ray Tune is a Python library for distributed hyperparameter optimization, built on Ray’s scalable compute framework. With Cake, you can run Ray Tune experiments across any cloud or hybrid environment while automating orchestration, tracking results, and optimizing resource usage with minimal setup.

Unity Catalog is Databricks’ unified governance solution for managing data access, lineage, and discovery across your Lakehouse. With Cake, Unity Catalog becomes part of your compliance-ready AI stack, ensuring secure, structured data usage across teams and environments.

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for managing petabyte-scale analytic datasets. Cake integrates Iceberg into AI workflows, making it easy to handle versioned, partitioned data across storage layers.

Track ML experiments and manage your model registry at scale with Cake’s automated MLflow setup and integration.

Kubeflow is an open-source machine learning platform built on Kubernetes. Cake operationalizes Kubeflow deployments, automating model training, tuning, and serving while adding governance and observability.

Feast is an open-source feature store for managing and serving machine learning features. Cake integrates Feast into AI pipelines, automating feature storage, retrieval, and governance.

Label Studio is an open-source data labeling tool for supervised machine learning projects. Cake connects Label Studio to AI pipelines for scalable annotation, human feedback, and active learning governance.

Evidently is an open-source tool for monitoring machine learning models in production. Cake operationalizes Evidently to automate drift detection, performance monitoring, and reporting within AI workflows.

XGBoost is a scalable and efficient gradient boosting library widely used for structured data and tabular ML tasks.

Frequently asked questions

What is MLOps?

MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) is the practice of applying DevOps principles to machine learning. It combines automation, monitoring, and collaboration practices to manage the entire ML lifecycle, from experimentation and training to deployment and governance.

Why is MLOps important for enterprises?

How does Cake support MLOps?

What challenges does MLOps solve?

Can MLOps work with existing tools and infrastructure?

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