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Production-Ready Applied Deep Learning

By : Tomasz Palczewski, Jaejun (Brandon) Lee, Lenin Mookiah
Book Image

Production-Ready Applied Deep Learning

By: Tomasz Palczewski, Jaejun (Brandon) Lee, Lenin Mookiah

Overview of this book

Machine learning engineers, deep learning specialists, and data engineers encounter various problems when moving deep learning models to a production environment. The main objective of this book is to close the gap between theory and applications by providing a thorough explanation of how to transform various models for deployment and efficiently distribute them with a full understanding of the alternatives. First, you will learn how to construct complex deep learning models in PyTorch and TensorFlow. Next, you will acquire the knowledge you need to transform your models from one framework to the other and learn how to tailor them for specific requirements that deployment environments introduce. The book also provides concrete implementations and associated methodologies that will help you apply the knowledge you gain right away. You will get hands-on experience with commonly used deep learning frameworks and popular cloud services designed for data analytics at scale. Additionally, you will get to grips with the authors’ collective knowledge of deploying hundreds of AI-based services at a large scale. By the end of this book, you will have understood how to convert a model developed for proof of concept into a production-ready application optimized for a particular production setting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1 – Building a Minimum Viable Product
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Part 2 – Building a Fully Featured Product
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Part 3 – Deployment and Maintenance

Scaling a Deep Learning Pipeline

Amazon Web Services (AWS) opens many possibilities in deep learning (DL) model deployments. In this chapter, we will introduce the two most popular services designed for deploying a DL model as an inference endpoint: Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and SageMaker.

In the first half, we will describe the EKS-based approach. First, we will discuss how to create inference endpoints for TensorFlow (TF) and PyTorch models and deploy them using EKS. We will also introduce the Elastic Inference (EI) accelerator, which can increase the throughput while reducing the cost. EKS clusters have pods that host the inference endpoints as web servers. As the last topic for EKS-based deployment, we will introduce how the pods can be scaled horizontally for the dynamic incoming traffic.

In the second half, we will introduce SageMaker-based deployment. We will discuss how to create inference endpoints for TF, PyTorch, and ONNX models. Additionally, the endpoints...