Google Machine Learning and Generative AI for Solutions Architects - by Kieran Kavanagh (Paperback)

About the Book

Whether you are relatively new to AI/ML or an experienced solutions architect working to address emerging business challenges, this book covers everything you need to design, implement, and manage complex AI/ML workloads on Google Cloud.

Book Synopsis

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:

Most companies today are incorporating AI/ML into their businesses. Building and running apps utilizing AI/ML effectively is tough. This book, authored by a principal architect with about two decades of industry experience, who has led cross-functional teams to design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise cloud strategies, shows you exactly how to design and run AI/ML workloads successfully using years of experience from some of the world's leading tech companies.

You'll get a clear understanding of essential fundamental AI/ML concepts, before moving on to complex topics with the help of examples and hands-on activities. This will help you explore advanced, cutting-edge AI/ML applications that address real-world use cases in today's market. You'll recognize the common challenges that companies face when implementing AI/ML workloads, and discover industry-proven best practices to overcome these. 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

- Deploying, Monitoring, and Scaling in Production

- Machine Learning Engineering and MLOps with GCP

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