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Journey to Become a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer

By : Dr. Logan Song
Book Image

Journey to Become a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer

By: Dr. Logan Song

Overview of this book

This book aims to provide a study guide to learn and master machine learning in Google Cloud: to build a broad and strong knowledge base, train hands-on skills, and get certified as a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer. The book is for someone who has the basic Google Cloud Platform (GCP) knowledge and skills, and basic Python programming skills, and wants to learn machine learning in GCP to take their next step toward becoming a Google Cloud Certified Machine Learning professional. The book starts by laying the foundations of Google Cloud Platform and Python programming, followed the by building blocks of machine learning, then focusing on machine learning in Google Cloud, and finally ends the studying for the Google Cloud Machine Learning certification by integrating all the knowledge and skills together. The book is based on the graduate courses the author has been teaching at the University of Texas at Dallas. When going through the chapters, the reader is expected to study the concepts, complete the exercises, understand and practice the labs in the appendices, and study each exam question thoroughly. Then, at the end of the learning journey, you can expect to harvest the knowledge, skills, and a certificate.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Starting with GCP and Python
4
Part 2: Introducing Machine Learning
8
Part 3: Mastering ML in GCP
13
Part 4: Accomplishing GCP ML Certification
15
Part 5: Appendices
Appendix 2: Practicing Using the Python Data Libraries

Comprehending Google Cloud Services

In Part 1 of this book, we will be building a foundation by focusing on Google Cloud and Python, the essential platform and tool for our learning journey, respectively.

In this chapter, we will dive into Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and discuss the Google Cloud services that are closely related to Google Cloud Machine Learning. Mastering these services will provide us with a solid background.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding the GCP global infrastructure
  • Getting started with GCP
  • GCP organization structure
  • GCP Identity and Access Management
  • GCP compute spectrum
  • GCP storage and database services
  • GCP big data and analytics services
  • GCP artificial intelligence services

Let’s get started.