Appendix A. Key Terms
This section contains select key terms that crop up often in teaching cloud computing, MLOps, and machine learning engineering:
- Alerts
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Alerts are health metrics that have actions associated with them. An example would be an alert that sends a text message to a software engineer when a web service returns multiple error status codes.
- Amazon ECR
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Amazon ECR is a container registry that stores Docker format containers.
- Amazon EKS
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Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service created by Amazon.
- Autoscaling
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Autoscaling is the process of scaling load up or down automatically based on how many resources the nodes are using.
- AWS Cloud9
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AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based development environment running in AWS. It has special hooks for developing serverless applications.
- AWS Lambda
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A serverless compute platform by AWS that has FaaS capability.
- Azure Container Instances (ACI)
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Azure Container Instances is a managed service from Microsoft that allows you to run container images without managing servers to host them.
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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Azure Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes service created by Microsoft.
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blacktool formats the text of Python source code automatically. - Build server
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A build server is an application that works in both the testing and deployment of software. Popular build servers can be both SaaS or open source. Here are a few popular options:
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Jenkins is an open source build server that can run anywhere ...
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