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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

Chapter 4: Reusable Models and Scalable Data Pipelines

In this chapter, you will learn different ways of using scalable data ingestion pipelines with pre-made model elements in TensorFlow Enterprise's high-level API's. These options provide the flexibility to suit different requirements or styles for building, training, and deploying models. Armed with this knowledge, you will be able to make informed choices and understand trade-offs among different model development approaches. The three major approaches are TensorFlow Hub, the TensorFlow Estimators API, and the TensorFlow Keras API.

TensorFlow Hub is a library of open source machine learning models. TensorFlow Estimators and tf.keras APIs are wrappers that can be regarded as high-level elements that can be configured and reused as building blocks in a model. In terms of the amount of coding required, TensorFlow Hub models require the least amount of extra coding, while Estimator and Keras APIs are building blocks at...