You're reading from Engineering MLOps Rapidly build, test, and manage production-ready machine learning life cycles at scale

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562882

Length 370 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure Functions

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Emmanuel Raj

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Framework for Building Machine Learning Models

2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of an MLOps Workflow FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Characterizing Your Machine Learning Problem

4. Chapter 3: Code Meets Data

5. Chapter 4: Machine Learning Pipelines

6. Chapter 5: Model Evaluation and Packaging

7. Section 2: Deploying Machine Learning Models at Scale

8. Chapter 6: Key Principles for Deploying Your ML System

9. Chapter 7: Building Robust CI/CD Pipelines

10. Chapter 8: APIs and Microservice Management

11. Chapter 9: Testing and Securing Your ML Solution

12. Chapter 10: Essentials of Production Release

13. Section 3: Monitoring Machine Learning Models in Production

14. Chapter 11: Key Principles for Monitoring Your ML System

15. Chapter 12: Model Serving and Monitoring

16. Chapter 13: Governing the ML System for Continual Learning

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