Updates 1/24/23 Ran into this library cloudpickle and it reminded me of this post. 3/18/21: Found this outrun which seems to be basically a better and more thought out way to do a lot of this. Introduction Recently I became interested in better workflows for machine learning projects. One of the main issues I’ve experienced is developing locally but not being able to easily test locally. Generally this is from a local computer being a bit slower and older for the types of models and datasets I am working with and initial code decisions that resulted in poor performance on a slower computer than the server used to train.