Ray Serve is a distributed serving library built on the Ray framework, enabling scalable serving of models and business logic, including complex, composite model pipelines.
Why it matters
overview
Ray Serve is a distributed serving library tool developed by Anyscale that enables data scientists, academics, and researchers to deploy machine learning models and arbitrary Python business logic as online inference APIs. It enables the creation of complex inference services by composing multiple models and custom logic in Python, supporting models from PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-Learn, and any custom Python code.
features
Ray Serve provides a robust and flexible platform for deploying AI models and applications at scale, integrating with the broader Ray ecosystem for parallel computing.
use cases
Ray Serve is utilized by organizations and individuals requiring scalable, real-time inference for machine learning models and complex AI applications.
how to use
Ray Serve provides a developer-centric Python API for deploying machine learning models and applications, allowing users to build and deploy complex ML applications with minimal code annotations.
pip install 'ray[serve]'.@serve.deployment decorator to define a deployable component.serve.run() or serve.start().pricing
Ray Serve is an open-source library, but its deployment and management often involve costs associated with the underlying cloud infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud A4 VMs, NVIDIA HGX B200 systems) or commercial offerings from Anyscale, which provides managed Ray services. Specific pricing for Anyscale's managed Ray Serve is not publicly detailed but is typically based on usage of compute resources.
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Ray Serve differentiates itself by being a framework-agnostic, distributed serving library focused on model composition, allowing users to build complex inference graphs with arbitrary Python logic.
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