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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

Data processing in the cloud

The success of deep learning (DL) projects depends on the quality and the quantity of data. Therefore, the systems for data preparation must be stable and scalable enough to process terabytes and petabytes of data efficiently. This often requires more than a single machine; a cluster of machines running a powerful ETL engine must be set up for the data process so that it can store and process a large amount of data.

First, we would like to introduce ETL, the core concept in data processing in the cloud. Next, we will provide an overview of a distributed system setup for data processing.

Introduction to ETL

Throughout the ETL process, data will be collected from one or more sources, get transformed into different forms as necessary, and get saved in data storage. In short, ETL itself covers the overall data processing pipeline. ETL interacts with three different types of data throughout: structured, unstructured, and semi-structured. While structured...