Deployment
Level 1
Making a new version of software live for real users.
Term 2 of 6 in Building AI systems
In plain language
Deployment is the moment code stops being an idea and starts serving people. Modern teams deploy often and in small increments, so problems are easy to find and undo.
Think of it like this
Opening the doors after the refit, rather than after a five-year rebuild.
Why it matters
Frequent, small deployments are why some products improve weekly. It is a habit, not a technology.
Next terms in Building AI systems
- Frontend and backendThe frontend is what the user sees; the backend is the part that runs on servers.
- LatencyThe delay between a request and its response.
- EvaluationSystematically testing whether an AI system's output is actually good.
- GuardrailsRules and checks that constrain what an AI system may say or do.