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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

By : Chinmay Arankalle, Gareth Dwyer, Bas Geerdink, Kunal Gera, Kevin Liao, Anand N.S.
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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

By: Chinmay Arankalle, Gareth Dwyer, Bas Geerdink, Kunal Gera, Kevin Liao, Anand N.S.

Overview of this book

Social networking sites see an average of 350 million uploads daily - a quantity impossible for humans to scan and analyze. Only AI can do this job at the required speed, and to leverage an AI application at its full potential, you need an efficient and scalable data storage pipeline. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop will teach you how to build and manage one. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop begins taking you through some real-world applications of AI. You’ll explore the layers of a data lake and get to grips with security, scalability, and maintainability. With the help of hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to define the requirements for AI applications in your organization. This AI book will show you how to select a database for your system and run common queries on databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra. You’ll also design your own AI trading system to get a feel of the pipeline-based architecture. As you learn to implement a deep Q-learning algorithm to play the CartPole game, you’ll gain hands-on experience with PyTorch. Finally, you’ll explore ways to run machine learning models in production as part of an AI application. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to build and deploy your own AI software at scale, using various tools, API frameworks, and serialization methods.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
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4. The Ethics of AI Data Storage

Automating Asynchronous Data Pipelines

A workflow management system should have the ability to automate asynchronous processes without any human interaction. Let's use the most common type of job in data engineering, the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) workflow, as an example to illustrate how it works and how to automate it:

Figure 9.30: A typical ETL workflow

The objective of an ETL pipeline is to output analytics reporting to inform business analysts what is trending right now based on clicks and impression data, which is very similar to the YouTube trending video data pipeline we created earlier. However, an ETL pipeline usually involves performing data operations such as extracting, transforming and loading data at scale.

Let's imagine that our source data, USvideos.csv.zip, is a 100+ terabytes dataset, which is very common in the era of big data. We won't be able to work with a flat CSV file anymore. Data of such size will be...