MLOps Engineering at Scale

1 Introduction to serverless machine learning

This chapter covers

• What serverless machine learning is and why you should care
• The difference between machine learning code and a machine learning platform
• How this book teaches about serverless machine learning
• The target audience for this book
• What you can learn from this book

A Grand Canyon—like gulf separates experimental machine learning code and production machine learning systems. The scenic view across the “canyon” is magical: when a machine learning system is running successfully in production it can seem prescient. The first time I started typing a query into a machine learning—powered autocomplete search bar and saw the system anticipate my words, I was hooked. I must have tried dozens ...