Designing Deep Learning Systems

1 An introduction to deep learning systems

This chapter covers

• Defining a deep learning system
• The product development cycle and how a deep learning system supports it
• An overview of a basic deep learning system and its components
• Differences between building a deep learning system and developing models

This chapter will prepare you with a big-picture mental model of a deep learning system. We will review some definitions and provide a reference system architecture design and a complete sample implementation of the architecture. We hope this mental model will prime you to see how the rest of the chapters, which address each system component in detail, fit into the whole picture.

To begin this chapter, we will discuss an even bigger picture ...