What counts as a good capstone?

Ambitious but feasible, with a measurable success bar defined before you start and a vertical slice working early. The curriculum has you write a one-page spec — problem, users, success metric, data, three milestones, top risks — before any code.

Do I get a certificate at the end?

Yes — a verifiable certificate of completion with a public verification link. It is a certificate of completion, not an accredited qualification; the capstone repository is the stronger evidence.

Phase 6 of 6 · Weeks 73–78

Phase 6 — Production, Research & Capstone

Ship something real, monitored, and public — the project you point at when someone asks what you can build.

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What you'll be able to do

Track experiments and version data so a result can be reproduced months later
Deploy a model to a real endpoint with sensible latency and cost budgets
Detect data and concept drift before your users do
Scope an ambitious-but-feasible project against a measurable success bar
Ship a public, documented capstone that stands on its own as evidence

What you need before you start

Assumed on day one

Phases 1–5, or equivalent working experience
A model of your own worth deploying
Git fluency and comfort on the command line

Taught here — not assumed

Experiment tracking, model registries and data versioning
Model serving, batching, autoscaling and latency budgets
Monitoring, drift detection, shadow deployments and gradual rollouts
Project framing — success metrics versus vanity metrics, vertical-slice-first

Week by week (6 weeks)

W73MLOps Foundations
W74Model Serving & Deployment
W75Monitoring & Drift
W76Capstone I — Scope, Plan & Data
W77Capstone II — Build the End-to-End System
W78Capstone III — Ship, Document & Present

What you'll build

Experiment tracking and data versioning wired into a real project
A deployed model behind a monitored endpoint
A drift-monitoring dashboard for that deployment
The capstone: a public repo, a one-page spec, and a defined quantitative success bar

Questions about this phase

What counts as a good capstone?: Ambitious but feasible, with a measurable success bar defined before you start and a vertical slice working early. The curriculum has you write a one-page spec — problem, users, success metric, data, three milestones, top risks — before any code.
Do I get a certificate at the end?: Yes — a verifiable certificate of completion with a public verification link. It is a certificate of completion, not an accredited qualification; the capstone repository is the stronger evidence.

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