Each approach we discuss is beneficial to go through, as you will be exposed to various technologies and services that are useful for you to understand. The examples in this book are designed to be run in a laptop-scale environment, which means that they can run on a single node. No GPU or multinode (cluster) resources will be needed. Figure 2-1 shows the technologies that you will be working with in this book.
Once you become familiar with these technologies at this scale, you can consider investing resources in the advanced hardware that is needed to run enterprise-scale workloads. The great benefit of working with the code at this smaller scale is that the syntax is essentially unchanged on the more sophisticated hardware configurations.
Figure 2-1. The enterprise-scale data science ecosystem covered in this book
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