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Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure

By : Thomas K Abraham, Parashar Shah, Jen Stirrup, Lauri Lehman, Anindita Basak
Book Image

Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure

By: Thomas K Abraham, Parashar Shah, Jen Stirrup, Lauri Lehman, Anindita Basak

Overview of this book

Implementing Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the cloud had not been possible earlier due to the lack of processing power and storage. However, Azure has created ML and AI services that are easy to implement in the cloud. Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure teaches you how to perform advanced ML projects in the cloud in a cost-effective way. The book begins by covering the benefits of ML and AI in the cloud. You will then explore Microsoft’s Team Data Science Process to establish a repeatable process for successful AI development and implementation. You will also gain an understanding of AI technologies available in Azure and the Cognitive Services APIs to integrate them into bot applications. This book lets you explore prebuilt templates with Azure Machine Learning Studio and build a model using canned algorithms that can be deployed as web services. The book then takes you through a preconfigured series of virtual machines in Azure targeted at AI development scenarios. You will get to grips with the ML Server and its capabilities in SQL and HDInsight. In the concluding chapters, you’ll integrate patterns with other non-AI services in Azure. By the end of this book, you will be fully equipped to implement smart cognitive actions in your models.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Azure Functions

While Logic Apps provides a fast way to automate tasks, its collection of actions is limited to pre-selected options that cannot be customized. Moreover, the programmability of Logic Apps is quite limited, and the development of more complex programs is not necessarily any easier than writing code. If more flexibility is needed, it might be more productive to develop applications with Azure Functions. Functions can be developed with multiple programming languages familiar to web developers.

Azure Functions is a serverless coding platform in the cloud, where the underlying operating system has been virtualized. This means that many maintenance tasks, such as updating the operating system or language versions, is managed by the platform and the user does not need to worry about those tasks. On the other hand, the user cannot change the language version used by the...