The convergence
LLM ops and classical MLOps are merging. Teams that used to run separate stacks are consolidating on one.
The shortlist
- Orchestration: Prefect or Dagster.
- Experiment tracking: Weights and Biases or MLflow.
- Feature store: often skipped in 2026; teams are moving logic into the warehouse.
- LLM ops: Langfuse, Braintrust, or self-hosted OpenTelemetry.
- Model registry: whatever integrates with your governance layer.
Canadian residency
Several of these vendors host in the US only. Check before you commit; retrofitting residency is painful.
What matters more than tools
A runbook every on-call can execute at 2am. Tools change; runbooks are how quality survives.