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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 Apache Spark

Apache Spark is an open-sourced data analytics engine that is used for data processing. The most popular use case is ETL. As an introduction to Spark, we will cover the key concepts surrounding Spark and some common Spark operations. Specifically, we will start by introducing resilient distributed datasets (RDDs) and DataFrames. Then, we will discuss Spark basics that you need to know about for ETL tasks: how to load a set of data from data storage, apply various transformations, and store the processed data. Spark applications can be implemented using multiple programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, and R. In this book, we will use Python so that we are aligned with the other implementations. The code snippets in this section can be found in this book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Production-Ready-Applied-Deep-Learning/tree/main/Chapter_5/spark. The datasets we will use in our examples include Google Scholar and the...