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The Definitive Guide to Google Vertex AI

By : Jasmeet Bhatia, Kartik Chaudhary
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Book Image

The Definitive Guide to Google Vertex AI

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By: Jasmeet Bhatia, Kartik Chaudhary

Overview of this book

While AI has become an integral part of every organization today, the development of large-scale ML solutions and management of complex ML workflows in production continue to pose challenges for many. Google’s unified data and AI platform, Vertex AI, directly addresses these challenges with its array of MLOPs tools designed for overall workflow management. This book is a comprehensive guide that lets you explore Google Vertex AI’s easy-to-advanced level features for end-to-end ML solution development. Throughout this book, you’ll discover how Vertex AI empowers you by providing essential tools for critical tasks, including data management, model building, large-scale experimentations, metadata logging, model deployments, and monitoring. You’ll learn how to harness the full potential of Vertex AI for developing and deploying no-code, low-code, or fully customized ML solutions. This book takes a hands-on approach to developing u deploying some real-world ML solutions on Google Cloud, leveraging key technologies such as Vision, NLP, generative AI, and recommendation systems. Additionally, this book covers pre-built and turnkey solution offerings as well as guidance on seamlessly integrating them into your ML workflows. By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence to develop and deploy large-scale production-grade ML solutions using the MLOps tooling and best practices from Google.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Part 1:The Importance of MLOps in a Real-World ML Deployment
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Part 2: Machine Learning Tools for Custom Models on Google Cloud
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Part 3: Prebuilt/Turnkey ML Solutions Available in GCP
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Part 4: Building Real-World ML Solutions with Google Cloud

Where to store data

GCS and BQ are two recommended options for storing any machine learning use case-related datasets for high security and efficiency purposes. If the underlying data is structured or semi-structured, BQ is the recommended option due to its off-the-shelf features for manipulating or processing structured datasets. If the data contains images, videos, audio, and unstructured data, then GCS is the suitable option to store it. Let’s learn about these two data storage systems in more detail.

GCS – object storage

A significant amount of data that we collect from real-world applications is in unstructured form. Some examples are images, videos, emails, audio files, web pages, and sensor data. Managing and storing such huge amounts of unstructured data affordably and efficiently is quite challenging. Nowadays, object storage has become a preferable solution for storing such large amounts of static data and backups. Object storage is a computer data architecture...