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by Kieran Kavanagh (Author), Priyanka Vergadia (Foreword by)
Architect and run real-world AI/ML solutions at scale on Google Cloud, and discover best practices to address common industry challenges effectively
Key Features:
- Understand key concepts, from fundamentals through to complex topics, via a methodical approach
- Build real-world end-to-end MLOps solutions and generative AI applications on Google Cloud
- Get your hands on a code repository with over 20 hands-on projects for all stages of the ML model development lifecycle
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description:
Nearly all companies nowadays either already use or are trying to incorporate AI/ML into their businesses. While AI/ML research is undoubtedly complex, the building and running of apps that utilize AI/ML effectively is tougher. This book shows you exactly how to design and run AI/ML workloads successfully using years of experience some of the world's leading tech companies have to offer.
You'll begin by gaining a clear understanding of essential fundamental AI/ML concepts, before moving on to grasp complex topics with the help of examples and hands-on activities. This will help you eventually explore advanced, cutting-edge AI/ML applications that address real-world use cases in today's market. As you advance, you'll recognize the common challenges that companies face when implementing AI/ML workloads, and discover industry-proven best practices to overcome these challenges. The chapters also teach you about the vast AI/ML landscape on Google Cloud and how to implement all the steps needed in a typical AI/ML project. You'll use services such as BigQuery to prepare data; Vertex AI to train, deploy, monitor, and scale models in production; as well as MLOps to automate the entire process.
By the end of this book, you will be able to unlock the full potential of Google Cloud's AI/ML offerings.
What You Will Learn:
- Build solutions with open-source offerings on Google Cloud, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Spark
- Source, understand, and prepare data for ML workloads
- Build, train, and deploy ML models on Google Cloud
- Create an effective MLOps strategy and implement MLOps workloads on Google Cloud
- Discover common challenges in typical AI/ML projects and get solutions from experts
- Explore vector databases and their importance in Generative AI applications
- Uncover new Gen AI patterns such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), agents, and agentic workflows
Who this book is for:
This book is for aspiring solutions architects looking to design and implement AI/ML solutions on Google Cloud. Although this book is suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners, basic knowledge of Python and ML concepts is required. The book focuses on how AI/ML is used in the real world on Google Cloud. It briefly covers the basics at the beginning to establish a baseline for you, but it does not go into depth on the underlying mathematical concepts that are readily available in academic material.
Table of Contents
- AI/ML Concepts, Real-World Applications, and Challenges
- Understanding the ML Model Development Lifecycle
- AI/ML Tooling and the Google Cloud AI/ML Landscape
- Utilizing Google Cloud's High-Level AI Services
- Building Custom ML Models on Google Cloud
- Diving Deeper-Preparing and Processing Data for AI/ML Workloads on Google Cloud
- Feature Engineering and Dimensionality Reduction
- Hyperparameters and Optimization
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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