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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
14
Part 3: Prebuilt/Turnkey ML Solutions Available in GCP
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Part 4: Building Real-World ML Solutions with Google Cloud

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Vertex AI Workbench, a managed platform for launching the Jupyter Notebook application on Google Cloud. We talked about the benefits of having notebooks in a cloud-based environment as compared to a local environment. Having Jupyter Notebook in the cloud makes it perfect for collaboration, scaling, adding security, and launching long-running jobs. We also discussed additional features of Vertex AI Workbench that are pretty useful while working on different aspects of ML project development.

After reading this chapter, we should be able to successfully deploy, manage, and use Jupyter Notebooks on the Vertex AI platform for our ML development needs. As we understand the difference between managed and user-managed notebook instances, we should be in good shape to choose the best solution for our development needs. We should also be able to create custom Docker container-based notebooks if required. Most importantly, we should now be able to...