Model Registry Engineering: Artifact Tracking, Metadata, Lineage, Promotion Workflows, and Governance for ML Models (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798175646697)

Model Registry Engineering is a systems-oriented guide to the infrastructure that determines whether your team can answer, months after a deployment, exactly what model was running and why.

A model registry is not a file server with version numbers. It is the system of record connecting every production model back to the training run, data version, code commit, and approval that produced it - and forward to every environment it was deployed to.

Thirteen chapters cover the full registry stack:

- Registry foundations: what constitutes a complete artifact, immutable versioning, and lifecycle stages that mean something
- Artifact tracking: weights, configs, tokenizers, and checksum verification at load time
- Metadata: metrics with their evaluation protocol, dataset versions, framework and hardware context
- Lineage: training runs, data versions, code commits, and dependency locks - queryable in both directions
- Promotion workflows: candidate gates, staging parity, registry-driven deployment, and evidence-backed approval
- Governance: access control, risk-scaled review, retention policy, and complete audit trails
- Deployment integration: release pipelines, serving reconciliation, and rollback as a first-class operation
- Registry quality: completeness, consistency, staleness detection, and write-time validation
- Failure modes: orphan artifacts, wrong lineage, untracked copies, and stage drift
- Registry APIs and automation: required fields in signatures, idempotent writes, and event streams
- Multi-team registries: namespace design, shared base models, cost attribution, and visibility defaults
- Cost and scale: storage growth, deduplication, retrieval patterns, and archival economics
- Production operations: backup and restore, safe migration, correctness monitoring, and policy change management

Every section pairs the concept with the trade-off that makes it a real engineering decision, the pitfall teams most often hit, and a short set of practical checks. Each chapter closes with a worked scenario showing how these decisions interact under real pressure.

Three appendices cover architectural comparisons (centralized versus federated, content-addressed versus sequential versioning, registry-pull versus image-baked deployment), a four-level registry maturity model, and adoption sequencing for teams starting from scratch.

Written for ML platform engineers, MLOps practitioners, and technical leads responsible for what actually runs in production.

Author: Yousf Alrukh
ISBN-13: 9798175646697
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2026
Pages: 82
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d