Architecting systems
No matter how you are working to build your software, it is always important to have a design in mind. This section will highlight the key considerations we must bear in mind when architecting ML systems.
Consider a scenario where you are contracted to organize the building of a house. We would not simply go out and hire a team of builders, buy all the supplies, hire all the equipment, and just tell everyone to start building. We would also not assume we knew exactly what the client who hired us wants without first speaking to them.
Instead, we would likely try to understand what the client wanted in detail, and then try to design the solution that would fit their requirements. We would potentially iterate this plan a few times with them and with appropriate experts who knew the details of pieces that fed into the overall design. Although we are not interested in building houses (or maybe you are, but there will not be any in this book!), we can still see the analogy...