MLOps with Microservices: A Case Study on the Maritime Domain

Renato Cordeiro Ferreira; Rowanne Trapmann; Willem-Jan van den Heuvel

doi:10.1007/978-3-032-07313-6_1

MLOps with Microservices: A Case Study on the Maritime Domain

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Abstract

This case study describes challenges and lessons learned on building Ocean Guard: a Machine Learning–Enabled System (MLES) for anomaly detection in the maritime domain. First, the paper presents the system’s specification, and architecture. Ocean Guard was designed with a microservices’ architecture to enable multiple teams to work on the project in parallel. Then, the paper discusses how the developers adapted contract-based design to MLOps for achieving that goal. As a MLES, Ocean Guard employs code, model, and data contracts to establish guidelines between its services. This case study hopes to inspire software engineers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists to leverage similar approaches for their systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Service-Oriented Computing
Subtitle of host publication	19th Symposium and Summer School, SummerSOC 2025, Crete, Greece, June 16–21, 2025, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	3-15
Volume	2602
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-032-07313-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07313-6_1
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2025

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Publisher	Springer Nature
Volume	2602
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Keywords

Microservices
MLOps
Software Architecture
Machine Learning Enabled Systems
Maritime Domain
Case Study

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10.1007/978-3-032-07313-6_1

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Ferreira, R. C., Trapmann, R., & van den Heuvel, W.-J. (2025). MLOps with Microservices: A Case Study on the Maritime Domain. In Service-Oriented Computing: 19th Symposium and Summer School, SummerSOC 2025, Crete, Greece, June 16–21, 2025, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 2602, pp. 3-15). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 2602). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07313-6_1

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Ferreira, RC, Trapmann, R & van den Heuvel, W-J 2025, MLOps with Microservices: A Case Study on the Maritime Domain. in Service-Oriented Computing: 19th Symposium and Summer School, SummerSOC 2025, Crete, Greece, June 16–21, 2025, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 2602, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2602, pp. 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07313-6_1

MLOps with Microservices: A Case Study on the Maritime Domain. / Ferreira, Renato Cordeiro; Trapmann, Rowanne; van den Heuvel, Willem-Jan.
Service-Oriented Computing: 19th Symposium and Summer School, SummerSOC 2025, Crete, Greece, June 16–21, 2025, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 2602 2025. p. 3-15 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 2602).

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