Machine Learning in Production
The era of big data generation is upon us. Devices ranging from sensors to robots and sophisticated applications are generating increasing amounts of rich data (time series, text, images, sound, video, etc.). For such data to benefit a business’s bottom line, insights must be extracted, a process that increasingly requires machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) approaches deployed in production applications use cases.
Production ML is complicated by several challenges, including the need for two very distinct skill sets (operations and data science) to collaborate, the inherent complexity and uniqueness of ML itself, when compared to other apps, and the varied array of analytic engines that need to be combined for a practical deployment, often across physically distributed infrastructure. Nisha Talagala shares solutions and techniques for effectively managing machine learning and deep learning in production with popular analytic engines such as Apache Spark, TensorFlow, and Apache Flink.