If you’re building machine learning models to be used on a small scale, you don’t need this book. But if you’re a developer building a production-grade ML application that needs quick response times, reliability, and good user experience, this is the book for you. It collects principles and practices of machine learning systems that are dramatically easier to run and maintain, and that are reliably better for users.
Machine Learning Systems: Designs that scale teaches you to design and implement production-ready ML systems. You’ll learn the principles of reactive design as you build pipelines with Spark, create highly scalable services with Akka, and use powerful machine learning libraries like MLib on massive datasets. The examples use the Scala language, but the same ideas and tools work in Java as well. …