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Machine Learning on Kubernetes

By : Faisal Masood, Ross Brigoli
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Machine Learning on Kubernetes

By: Faisal Masood, Ross Brigoli

Overview of this book

MLOps is an emerging field that aims to bring repeatability, automation, and standardization of the software engineering domain to data science and machine learning engineering. By implementing MLOps with Kubernetes, data scientists, IT professionals, and data engineers can collaborate and build machine learning solutions that deliver business value for their organization. You'll begin by understanding the different components of a machine learning project. Then, you'll design and build a practical end-to-end machine learning project using open source software. As you progress, you'll understand the basics of MLOps and the value it can bring to machine learning projects. You will also gain experience in building, configuring, and using an open source, containerized machine learning platform. In later chapters, you will prepare data, build and deploy machine learning models, and automate workflow tasks using the same platform. Finally, the exercises in this book will help you get hands-on experience in Kubernetes and open source tools, such as JupyterHub, MLflow, and Airflow. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to effectively build, train, and deploy a machine learning model using the machine learning platform you built.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1: The Challenges of Adopting ML and Understanding MLOps (What and Why)
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Part 2: The Building Blocks of an MLOps Platform and How to Build One on Kubernetes
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Part 3: How to Use the MLOps Platform and Build a Full End-to-End Project Using the New Platform

Understanding feature engineering

ML is all about data. No matter how advanced our algorithm is, if the data is not correct or not enough, our model will not be able to perform as desired. Feature engineering transforms input data into features that are closely aligned with the model's objectives and converts data into a format that assists in model training.

Sometimes, there is data that may not be useful for a given training problem. How do we make sure that the algorithm is using only the right set of information? What about fields that are not individually useful, but when we apply a function to a group of fields, the data becomes particularly useful?

The act of making your data useful for the algorithm is called feature engineering. Most of the time, a data scientist's job is to find the right set of data for a given problem. Feature engineering requires knowledge of domain-specific techniques, and you will collaborate with business SMEs to better understand the...