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The Machine Learning Solutions Architect Handbook

By : David Ping
Book Image

The Machine Learning Solutions Architect Handbook

By: David Ping

Overview of this book

When equipped with a highly scalable machine learning (ML) platform, organizations can quickly scale the delivery of ML products for faster business value realization. There is a huge demand for skilled ML solutions architects in different industries, and this handbook will help you master the design patterns, architectural considerations, and the latest technology insights you’ll need to become one. You’ll start by understanding ML fundamentals and how ML can be applied to solve real-world business problems. Once you've explored a few leading problem-solving ML algorithms, this book will help you tackle data management and get the most out of ML libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Using open source technology such as Kubernetes/Kubeflow to build a data science environment and ML pipelines will be covered next, before moving on to building an enterprise ML architecture using Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ll also learn about security and governance considerations, advanced ML engineering techniques, and how to apply bias detection, explainability, and privacy in ML model development. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and build an ML platform to support common use cases and architecture patterns like a true professional.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Solving Business Challenges with Machine Learning Solution Architecture
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Section 2: The Science, Tools, and Infrastructure Platform for Machine Learning
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Section 3: Technical Architecture Design and Regulatory Considerations for Enterprise ML Platforms

Summary

In this chapter, we covered several topics, including what AI and ML are, the key steps in an end-to-end ML life cycle, and the core functions of ML solutions architecture. Now, you should be able to identify the key differences between the three main types of ML and the kind of business problems they can solve. You have also learned that business and data understanding is critical to the successful outcome of an ML project, in addition to modeling and engineering. Lastly, you now have an understanding of how ML solutions architecture fits into the ML life cycle.

In the next chapter, we will go over some ML use cases across a number of industries, such as financial services and media and entertainment.