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Azure Machine Learning Engineering

By : Sina Fakhraee, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Megan Masanz
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Azure Machine Learning Engineering

By: Sina Fakhraee, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Megan Masanz

Overview of this book

Data scientists working on productionizing machine learning (ML) workloads face a breadth of challenges at every step owing to the countless factors involved in getting ML models deployed and running. This book offers solutions to common issues, detailed explanations of essential concepts, and step-by-step instructions to productionize ML workloads using the Azure Machine Learning service. You’ll see how data scientists and ML engineers working with Microsoft Azure can train and deploy ML models at scale by putting their knowledge to work with this practical guide. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to train, register, and productionize ML models by making use of the power of the Azure Machine Learning service. You’ll get to grips with scoring models in real time and batch, explaining models to earn business trust, mitigating model bias, and developing solutions using an MLOps framework. By the end of this Azure Machine Learning book, you’ll be ready to build and deploy end-to-end ML solutions into a production system using the Azure Machine Learning service for real-time scenarios.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1: Training and Tuning Models with the Azure Machine Learning Service
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Part 2: Deploying and Explaining Models in AMLS
12
Part 3: Productionizing Your Workload with MLOps

Productionizing Your Workload with MLOps

MLOps is a concept that enables machine learning (ML) workloads to scale through the automation of model training, model evaluation, and model deployment. MLOps enables traceability with code, data, and models. MLOps allows data scientists and ML professionals to make predictions available to business users at scale with the Azure Machine Learning (AML) services.

MLOps is built on the concepts of CI/CD. CI/CD is a term that stands for continuous integration/ continuous delivery and has been used for software development for decades. CI/CD enables companies to scale their applications and by leveraging those same concepts, we can scale our ML projects, which will rely on CI/CD practices for our MLOps implementation.

One of the challenges of this domain is its complexity. In this chapter, we will go through the scenario of retrieving data, transforming data, building a model, evaluating the model, deploying a model, then pending approval...