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Learn TensorFlow Enterprise

By : KC Tung
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Learn TensorFlow Enterprise

By: KC Tung

Overview of this book

TensorFlow as a machine learning (ML) library has matured into a production-ready ecosystem. This beginner’s book uses practical examples to enable you to build and deploy TensorFlow models using optimal settings that ensure long-term support without having to worry about library deprecation or being left behind when it comes to bug fixes or workarounds. The book begins by showing you how to refine your TensorFlow project and set it up for enterprise-level deployment. You’ll then learn how to choose a future-proof version of TensorFlow. As you advance, you’ll find out how to build and deploy models in a robust and stable environment by following recommended practices made available in TensorFlow Enterprise. This book also teaches you how to manage your services better and enhance the performance and reliability of your artificial intelligence (AI) applications. You’ll discover how to use various enterprise-ready services to accelerate your ML and AI workflows on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Finally, you’ll scale your ML models and handle heavy workloads across CPUs, GPUs, and Cloud TPUs. By the end of this TensorFlow book, you’ll have learned the patterns needed for TensorFlow Enterprise model development, data pipelines, training, and deployment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1 – TensorFlow Enterprise Services and Features
4
Section 2 – Data Preprocessing and Modeling
7
Section 3 – Scaling and Tuning ML Works
10
Section 4 – Model Optimization and Deployment

Running Local Serving

A prerequisite to serving the model is serialization of the model structure and its assets, such as weights and biases matrices. A trained TensorFlow model is typically saved in a SavedModel format. A SavedModel format consists of the complete TensorFlow program with weights, biases, and computation ops. This is done through the low-level tf.saved_model API.

Typically, when you execute a model training process using Fit, you end up with something like this:

mdl.fit(
    train_dataset,
    epochs=5, steps_per_epoch=steps_per_epoch,
    validation_data=valid_dataset,
    validation_steps=validation_steps)

After you've executed the preceding code, you have a model object, mdl, that can be saved via the following syntax:

saved_model_path = ''
tf.saved_model.save(mdl, saved_model_path)

If you take a look at the current directory, you will find a saved_model...