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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

Operationalizing ML

As discussed in earlier chapters, you can enjoy the full benefits of ML in your business if your models get deployed and used in the production environment. Operationalization is more than just deploying the ML model. There are also other things that need to be addressed to have successful ML-enabled applications in production. Let's get into it.

Setting the business expectations

It is extremely important to ensure that the business stakeholders understand the risk of making business decisions using the ML model's predictions. You do not want to be in a situation where your organization fails because of ML. Zillow, a real estate company that invested a lot in ML with their product Zestimate, lost 500 million dollars due to incorrect price estimates of real properties. They ended up buying properties at prices set by their ML model that they eventually ended up selling for a much lower price.

ML models are not perfect; they make mistakes. The business...