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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
10
Part 3 – Deployment and Maintenance

Introduction to Docker

In the previous section, Setting up notebook environments, you learned how to set up a virtual environment with various packages for DL using conda and pip commands. Furthermore, you know how to save an environment into a YAML file and recreate the same environment. However, projects based on virtual environments may not be sufficient when the environment needs to be replicated on multiple machines as there can be issues coming from non-obvious OS-level dependencies. In this situation, Docker would be a great solution. Using Docker, you can create a snapshot of your working environment, including the underlying version of your OS. Altogether, Docker allows you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so that you can deliver your software quickly. Installing Docker can be achieved by following the instructions at https://www.docker.com/get-started. In this book, we will use version 3.5.2.

In this section, we will introduce a Docker image, a representation...