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Machine Learning Engineering with MLflow

By : Natu Lauchande
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Book Image

Machine Learning Engineering with MLflow

2 (1)
By: Natu Lauchande

Overview of this book

MLflow is a platform for the machine learning life cycle that enables structured development and iteration of machine learning models and a seamless transition into scalable production environments. This book will take you through the different features of MLflow and how you can implement them in your ML project. You will begin by framing an ML problem and then transform your solution with MLflow, adding a workbench environment, training infrastructure, data management, model management, experimentation, and state-of-the-art ML deployment techniques on the cloud and premises. The book also explores techniques to scale up your workflow as well as performance monitoring techniques. As you progress, you’ll discover how to create an operational dashboard to manage machine learning systems. Later, you will learn how you can use MLflow in the AutoML, anomaly detection, and deep learning context with the help of use cases. In addition to this, you will understand how to use machine learning platforms for local development as well as for cloud and managed environments. This book will also show you how to use MLflow in non-Python-based languages such as R and Java, along with covering approaches to extend MLflow with Plugins. By the end of this machine learning book, you will be able to produce and deploy reliable machine learning algorithms using MLflow in multiple environments.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Problem Framing and Introductions
4
Section 2: Model Development and Experimentation
8
Section 3: Machine Learning in Production
13
Section 4: Advanced Topics

Chapter 6: Introducing ML Systems Architecture

In this chapter, you will learn about general principles of Machine Learning (ML) systems architecture in the broader context of Software Engineering (SWE) and common issues with deploying models in production in a reliable way. You will also have the opportunity to follow along with architecting our ML systems. We will briefly look at how with MLflow, in conjunction with other relevant tools, we can build reliable and scalable ML platforms.

Specifically, we will look at the following sections in this chapter:

  • Understanding challenges with ML systems and projects
  • Surveying state-of-the-art ML platforms
  • Architecting the PsyStock ML platform

You will follow a process of understanding the problem, studying different solutions from lead companies in the industry, and then developing your own relevant architecture. This three-step approach is transferrable to any future ML system that you want to develop...