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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

Chapter 5: Data Engineering

Data engineering, in general, refers to the management and organization of data and data flows across an organization. It involves data gathering, processing, versioning, data governance, and analytics. It is a huge topic that revolves around the development and maintenance of data processing platforms, data lakes, data marts, data warehouses, and data streams. It is an important practice that contributes to the success of big data and machine learning (ML) projects. In this chapter, you will learn about the ML-specific topics of data engineering.

A sizable number of ML tutorials/books start with a clean dataset and a CSV file to build your model against. The real world is different. Data comes in many shapes and sizes, and it is important that you have a well-defined strategy to harvest, process, and prepare data at scale. This chapter will discuss open source tools that can provide the foundations for data engineering in ML projects. You will learn...