Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms


Book Description

All cloud architects need to know how to build data platforms that enable businesses to make data-driven decisions and deliver enterprise-wide intelligence in a fast and efficient way. This handbook shows you how to design, build, and modernize cloud native data and machine learning platforms using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and multicloud tools like Snowflake and Databricks. Authors Marco Tranquillin, Valliappa Lakshmanan, and Firat Tekiner cover the entire data lifecycle from ingestion to activation in a cloud environment using real-world enterprise architectures. You'll learn how to transform, secure, and modernize familiar solutions like data warehouses and data lakes, and you'll be able to leverage recent AI/ML patterns to get accurate and quicker insights to drive competitive advantage. You'll learn how to: Design a modern and secure cloud native or hybrid data analytics and machine learning platform Accelerate data-led innovation by consolidating enterprise data in a governed, scalable, and resilient data platform Democratize access to enterprise data and govern how business teams extract insights and build AI/ML capabilities Enable your business to make decisions in real time using streaming pipelines Build an MLOps platform to move to a predictive and prescriptive analytics approach




Architecting Modern Data Platforms


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There’s a lot of information about big data technologies, but splicing these technologies into an end-to-end enterprise data platform is a daunting task not widely covered. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to build big data infrastructure both on-premises and in the cloud and successfully architect a modern data platform. Ideal for enterprise architects, IT managers, application architects, and data engineers, this book shows you how to overcome the many challenges that emerge during Hadoop projects. You’ll explore the vast landscape of tools available in the Hadoop and big data realm in a thorough technical primer before diving into: Infrastructure: Look at all component layers in a modern data platform, from the server to the data center, to establish a solid foundation for data in your enterprise Platform: Understand aspects of deployment, operation, security, high availability, and disaster recovery, along with everything you need to know to integrate your platform with the rest of your enterprise IT Taking Hadoop to the cloud: Learn the important architectural aspects of running a big data platform in the cloud while maintaining enterprise security and high availability




Machine Learning Design Patterns


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The design patterns in this book capture best practices and solutions to recurring problems in machine learning. The authors, three Google engineers, catalog proven methods to help data scientists tackle common problems throughout the ML process. These design patterns codify the experience of hundreds of experts into straightforward, approachable advice. In this book, you will find detailed explanations of 30 patterns for data and problem representation, operationalization, repeatability, reproducibility, flexibility, explainability, and fairness. Each pattern includes a description of the problem, a variety of potential solutions, and recommendations for choosing the best technique for your situation. You'll learn how to: Identify and mitigate common challenges when training, evaluating, and deploying ML models Represent data for different ML model types, including embeddings, feature crosses, and more Choose the right model type for specific problems Build a robust training loop that uses checkpoints, distribution strategy, and hyperparameter tuning Deploy scalable ML systems that you can retrain and update to reflect new data Interpret model predictions for stakeholders and ensure models are treating users fairly




Designing Cloud Data Platforms


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Centralized data warehouses, the long-time defacto standard for housing data for analytics, are rapidly giving way to multi-faceted cloud data platforms. Companies that embrace modern cloud data platforms benefit from an integrated view of their business using all of their data and can take advantage of advanced analytic practices to drive predictions and as yet unimagined data services. Designing Cloud Data Platforms is an hands-on guide to envisioning and designing a modern scalable data platform that takes full advantage of the flexibility of the cloud. As you read, you''ll learn the core components of a cloud data platform design, along with the role of key technologies like Spark and Kafka Streams. You''ll also explore setting up processes to manage cloud-based data, keep it secure, and using advanced analytic and BI tools to analyse it. about the technology Access to affordable, dependable, serverless cloud services has revolutionized the way organizations can approach data management, and companies both big and small are raring to migrate to the cloud. But without a properly designed data platform, data in the cloud can remain just as siloed and inaccessible as it is today for most organizations. Designing Cloud Data Platforms lays out the principles of a well-designed platform that uses the scalable resources of the public cloud to manage all of an organization''s data, and present it as useful business insights. about the book In Designing Cloud Data Platforms, you''ll learn how to integrate data from multiple sources into a single, cloud-based, modern data platform. Drawing on their real-world experiences designing cloud data platforms for dozens of organizations, cloud data experts Danil Zburivsky and Lynda Partner take you through a six-layer approach to creating cloud data platforms that maximizes flexibility and manageability and reduces costs. Starting with foundational principles, you''ll learn how to get data into your platform from different databases, files, and APIs, the essential practices for organizing and processing that raw data, and how to best take advantage of the services offered by major cloud vendors. As you progress past the basics you''ll take a deep dive into advanced topics to get the most out of your data platform, including real-time data management, machine learning analytics, schema management, and more. what''s inside The tools of different public cloud for implementing data platforms Best practices for managing structured and unstructured data sets Machine learning tools that can be used on top of the cloud Cost optimization techniques about the reader For data professionals familiar with the basics of cloud computing and distributed data processing systems like Hadoop and Spark. about the authors Danil Zburivsky has over 10 years experience designing and supporting large-scale data infrastructure for enterprises across the globe. Lynda Partner is the VP of Analytics-as-a-Service at Pythian, and has been on the business side of data for over 20 years.




Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms


Book Description

All cloud architects need to know how to build data platforms--the key to enabling businesses with data and delivering enterprise-wide intelligence in a fast and efficient way. This handbook is ideal for learning how to design, build, and modernize cloud native data and machine learning platforms using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or multicloud tools like Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake, and Databricks. Authors Marco Tranquillin, Valliappa Lakshmanan, and Firat Tekiner cover the entire data lifecycle in a cloud environment, from ingestion to activation, using real-world enterprise architectures. You'll learn how to transform and modernize familiar solutions, like data warehouses and data lakes, and you'll be able to leverage recent AI/ML patterns to get accurate and quicker insights to drive competitive advantage. This book shows you how to: Design a modern cloud native or hybrid data analytics and machine learning platform Accelerate data-led innovation by consolidating enterprise data in a data platform Democratize access to enterprise data and allow business teams to extract insights and build AI/ML capabilities Enable your business to make decisions in real time using streaming pipelines Move from a descriptive analytics approach to a more predictive and prescriptive one by building an MLOps platform Make your organization more effective in working with data analytics and machine learning in a cloud environment




The Machine Learning Solutions Architect Handbook


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Build highly secure and scalable machine learning platforms to support the fast-paced adoption of machine learning solutions Key Features Explore different ML tools and frameworks to solve large-scale machine learning challenges in the cloud Build an efficient data science environment for data exploration, model building, and model training Learn how to implement bias detection, privacy, and explainability in ML model development Book DescriptionWhen equipped with a highly scalable machine learning (ML) platform, organizations can quickly scale the delivery of ML products for faster business value realization. There is a huge demand for skilled ML solutions architects in different industries, and this handbook will help you master the design patterns, architectural considerations, and the latest technology insights you’ll need to become one. You’ll start by understanding ML fundamentals and how ML can be applied to solve real-world business problems. Once you've explored a few leading problem-solving ML algorithms, this book will help you tackle data management and get the most out of ML libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Using open source technology such as Kubernetes/Kubeflow to build a data science environment and ML pipelines will be covered next, before moving on to building an enterprise ML architecture using Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ll also learn about security and governance considerations, advanced ML engineering techniques, and how to apply bias detection, explainability, and privacy in ML model development. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and build an ML platform to support common use cases and architecture patterns like a true professional. What you will learn Apply ML methodologies to solve business problems Design a practical enterprise ML platform architecture Implement MLOps for ML workflow automation Build an end-to-end data management architecture using AWS Train large-scale ML models and optimize model inference latency Create a business application using an AI service and a custom ML model Use AWS services to detect data and model bias and explain models Who this book is for This book is for data scientists, data engineers, cloud architects, and machine learning enthusiasts who want to become machine learning solutions architects. You’ll need basic knowledge of the Python programming language, AWS, linear algebra, probability, and networking concepts before you get started with this handbook.




Foundations for Architecting Data Solutions


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While many companies ponder implementation details such as distributed processing engines and algorithms for data analysis, this practical book takes a much wider view of big data development, starting with initial planning and moving diligently toward execution. Authors Ted Malaska and Jonathan Seidman guide you through the major components necessary to start, architect, and develop successful big data projects. Everyone from CIOs and COOs to lead architects and developers will explore a variety of big data architectures and applications, from massive data pipelines to web-scale applications. Each chapter addresses a piece of the software development life cycle and identifies patterns to maximize long-term success throughout the life of your project. Start the planning process by considering the key data project types Use guidelines to evaluate and select data management solutions Reduce risk related to technology, your team, and vague requirements Explore system interface design using APIs, REST, and pub/sub systems Choose the right distributed storage system for your big data system Plan and implement metadata collections for your data architecture Use data pipelines to ensure data integrity from source to final storage Evaluate the attributes of various engines for processing the data you collect




Architecting Google Cloud Solutions


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Achieve your business goals and build highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure by designing robust and cost-effective solutions as a Google Cloud Architect. Key FeaturesGain hands-on experience in designing and managing high-performance cloud solutionsLeverage Google Cloud Platform to optimize technical and business processes using cutting-edge technologies and servicesUse Google Cloud Big Data, AI, and ML services to design scalable and intelligent data solutionsBook Description Google has been one of the top players in the public cloud domain thanks to its agility and performance capabilities. This book will help you design, develop, and manage robust, secure, and dynamic solutions to successfully meet your business needs. You'll learn how to plan and design network, compute, storage, and big data systems that incorporate security and compliance from the ground up. The chapters will cover simple to complex use cases for devising solutions to business problems, before focusing on how to leverage Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities for designing modern no-operations platforms. Throughout this book, you'll discover how to design for scalability, resiliency, and high availability. Later, you'll find out how to use Google Cloud to design modern applications using microservices architecture, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. The concluding chapters then demonstrate how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insights from your data. Finally, you will discover best practices for operating and monitoring your cloud solutions, as well as performing troubleshooting and quality assurance. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll be able to design robust enterprise-grade solutions using Google Cloud Platform. What you will learnGet to grips with compute, storage, networking, data analytics, and pricingDiscover delivery models such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaSExplore the underlying technologies and economics of cloud computingDesign for scalability, business continuity, observability, and resiliencySecure Google Cloud solutions and ensure complianceUnderstand operational best practices and learn how to architect a monitoring solutionGain insights into modern application design with Google CloudLeverage big data, machine learning, and AI with Google CloudWho this book is for This book is for cloud architects who are responsible for designing and managing cloud solutions with GCP. You'll also find the book useful if you're a system engineer or enterprise architect looking to learn how to design solutions with Google Cloud. Moreover, cloud architects who already have experience with other cloud providers and are now beginning to work with Google Cloud will benefit from the book. Although an intermediate-level understanding of cloud computing and distributed apps is required, prior experience of working in the public and hybrid cloud domain is not mandatory.




Data Lakehouse in Action


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Propose a new scalable data architecture paradigm, Data Lakehouse, that addresses the limitations of current data architecture patterns Key FeaturesUnderstand how data is ingested, stored, served, governed, and secured for enabling data analyticsExplore a practical way to implement Data Lakehouse using cloud computing platforms like AzureCombine multiple architectural patterns based on an organization's needs and maturity levelBook Description The Data Lakehouse architecture is a new paradigm that enables large-scale analytics. This book will guide you in developing data architecture in the right way to ensure your organization's success. The first part of the book discusses the different data architectural patterns used in the past and the need for a new architectural paradigm, as well as the drivers that have caused this change. It covers the principles that govern the target architecture, the components that form the Data Lakehouse architecture, and the rationale and need for those components. The second part deep dives into the different layers of Data Lakehouse. It covers various scenarios and components for data ingestion, storage, data processing, data serving, analytics, governance, and data security. The book's third part focuses on the practical implementation of the Data Lakehouse architecture in a cloud computing platform. It focuses on various ways to combine the Data Lakehouse pattern to realize macro-patterns, such as Data Mesh and Data Hub-Spoke, based on the organization's needs and maturity level. The frameworks introduced will be practical and organizations can readily benefit from their application. By the end of this book, you'll clearly understand how to implement the Data Lakehouse architecture pattern in a scalable, agile, and cost-effective manner. What you will learnUnderstand the evolution of the Data Architecture patterns for analyticsBecome well versed in the Data Lakehouse pattern and how it enables data analyticsFocus on methods to ingest, process, store, and govern data in a Data Lakehouse architectureLearn techniques to serve data and perform analytics in a Data Lakehouse architectureCover methods to secure the data in a Data Lakehouse architectureImplement Data Lakehouse in a cloud computing platform such as AzureCombine Data Lakehouse in a macro-architecture pattern such as Data MeshWho this book is for This book is for data architects, big data engineers, data strategists and practitioners, data stewards, and cloud computing practitioners looking to become well-versed with modern data architecture patterns to enable large-scale analytics. Basic knowledge of data architecture and familiarity with data warehousing concepts are required.




Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform


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Learn how easy it is to apply sophisticated statistical and machine learning methods to real-world problems when you build on top of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This hands-on guide shows developers entering the data science field how to implement an end-to-end data pipeline, using statistical and machine learning methods and tools on GCP. Through the course of the book, you’ll work through a sample business decision by employing a variety of data science approaches. Follow along by implementing these statistical and machine learning solutions in your own project on GCP, and discover how this platform provides a transformative and more collaborative way of doing data science. You’ll learn how to: Automate and schedule data ingest, using an App Engine application Create and populate a dashboard in Google Data Studio Build a real-time analysis pipeline to carry out streaming analytics Conduct interactive data exploration with Google BigQuery Create a Bayesian model on a Cloud Dataproc cluster Build a logistic regression machine-learning model with Spark Compute time-aggregate features with a Cloud Dataflow pipeline Create a high-performing prediction model with TensorFlow Use your deployed model as a microservice you can access from both batch and real-time pipelines