Show HN: KitchenAI Open Source LLMops development kit. Notebook to server

Over the last year of building AI enabled SaaS applications I became increasingly frustrated at the developer experience of going from AI RAG cookbooks authored in jupyter notebooks to integrating it into my application. Notebooks are great and all but it's incredibly hard to test which part of it was actually important for my app. This led me down the road of having to understand every piece of code in each notebook, deciphering what was important, somehow build an API server as a POC to then hook it into my app. The feedback loop was excruciatingly long, painful, and most of the time I canned the POC because it wasn't quite what I wanted.

this is when it dawned on me that the roles in the AI developer world are fractured into two. Data Scientists and AI devs want easy notebooks to test methods and techniques but do not care to ship something that can be easily be consumed by applications.

In the other camp lies application devs, they just want simple API's that they can use to test quickly and verify these AI methods enhance their application.

Enter KitchenAI.

A way to bridge the gap between the two by converting AI related Jupyter notebooks into a ready made production API server so that it becomes easy to test various cookbooks, recipes, and techniques. Shortening the development cycle in half while giving users a complete local experience with the ability to share them as docker containers.

Completely vendor agnostic and framework agnostic, the goal is to give developers the most about of freedom to use the libraries they already feel most comfortable using.

It comes with a plugin architecture so I envision our team and the community building all sorts of llmops type plugins like evaluation frameworks, observability, prompt management and more.

A lot of hard work was put to provide something that is totally open source, local, and with battle tested technology like Django so that developers didn't have to rely on 3rd party providers.

We’ve launched this repo under Apache license so any developer can use the tool. We're working hard to provide a managed cloud version with much deeper integrations, metrics, analytics, and workflows for those that want have more complex demands

Give it a spin: https://github.com/epuerta9/kitchenai. Let us know what you think!