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Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks

By : Alan Bernardo Palacio
Book Image

Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks

By: Alan Bernardo Palacio

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure Databricks helps you to harness the power of distributed computing and apply it to create robust data pipelines, along with training and deploying machine learning and deep learning models. Databricks' advanced features enable developers to process, transform, and explore data. Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks will help you to put your knowledge of Databricks to work to create big data pipelines. The book provides a hands-on approach to implementing Azure Databricks and its associated methodologies that will make you productive in no time. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you’ll begin with a quick introduction to Databricks core functionalities, before performing distributed model training and inference using TensorFlow and Spark MLlib. As you advance, you’ll explore MLflow Model Serving on Azure Databricks and implement distributed training pipelines using HorovodRunner in Databricks. Finally, you’ll discover how to transform, use, and obtain insights from massive amounts of data to train predictive models and create entire fully working data pipelines. By the end of this MS Azure book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of how to work with Databricks to create and manage an entire big data pipeline.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introducing Databricks
4
Section 2: Data Pipelines with Databricks
9
Section 3: Machine and Deep Learning with Databricks

Reading a dataset

Reading datasets using Petastorm can be very simple. In this section, we will demonstrate how we can easily load a Petastorm dataset into two frequently used deep learning frameworks, which are TensorFlow and PyTorch:

  1. To load our Petastorm datasets, we use the petastorm.reader.Reader class, which implements the iterator interface that allows us to use plain Python to go over the samples very efficiently. The petastorm.reader.Reader class can be created using the petastorm.make_reader factory method:
    from petastorm import make_reader
    with make_reader('dfs://some_dataset') as reader:
       for sample in reader:
           print(sample.id)
           plt.imshow(sample.image1)
  2. The following code example shows how we can stream a dataset into the TensorFlow Examples class, which as we have seen before is a named tuple with the keys being the ones specified in the Unischema of...