Starting with a thoughtful infrastructure
Successfully applied ML projects depend on an iterative approach to tackle data collection, data cleansing, feature engineering, and modeling. After a successful deployment and rollout, you should go back to the beginning, keep an eye on your metrics, and collect more data. By now, it should be clear that you will repeat some of your development and deployment steps in the life cycle of your ML project.
Getting the infrastructure and environment for your ML project right from the beginning will save you a lot of trouble down the road. One key to a successful infrastructure is automation and versioning, as we discussed in the previous chapter. So, we recommend that you take a few extra days to set up your infrastructure and automation and register your datasets, models, and environments from within Azure Machine Learning.
The same can be said for monitoring. To make educated decisions about whether your model is working as intended, whether...