MLflow is an open-source ML lifecycle platform that provides experiment tracking, model registry, model deployment, evaluation, and observability for both classical ML and GenAI/LLM workflows. In production, it operates as a modular monolith: a Python backend (Flask/FastAPI) with SQLAlchemy-backed storage (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL), a React/TypeScript web UI, and client SDKs for Python, R, Java, and TypeScript. The system exposes a REST API and CLI for logging experiments, registering models, collecting traces via OpenTelemetry, and managing an AI Gateway that routes requests to dozens of LLM providers with budget controls, guardrails, and traffic splitting. The architecture includes a plugin system for custom store backends, deployment targets, and authentication providers, as well as a custom linting tool (clint) and extensive CI/CD pipelines. Key entry points are the `mlflow` CLI, `MlflowClient` Python API, tracking server (`mlflow server`), gateway server (`mlflow gateway`), and model scoring server (`mlflow models serve`). Data flows from user instrumentation through asynchronous logging to the backend store, with traces and evaluations queryable via the UI or API. External dependencies span ML frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, etc.), LLM provider SDKs, and infrastructure tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).