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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

Accessing the data sources

TensorFlow Enterprise can easily access data sources in Google Cloud Storage as well as BigQuery. Either of these data sources can easily host gigabytes to terabytes of data. Reading training data into the JupyterLab runtime at this magnitude of size is definitely out of question, however. Therefore, streaming data as batches through training is the way to handle data ingestion. The tf.data API is the way to build a data ingestion pipeline that aggregates data from files in a distributed system. After this step, the data object can go through transformation steps and evolve into a new data object for training.

In this section, we are going to learn basic coding patterns for the following tasks:

  • Reading data from a Cloud Storage bucket
  • Reading data from a BigQuery table
  • Writing data into a Cloud Storage bucket
  • Writing data into BigQuery table

After this, you will have a good grasp of reading and writing data to a Google Cloud...