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Book V

ML systems and infrastructure

Accelerators, distributed training, inference systems, reliability, cost, and full ML architecture.

6 chapters · 30 entries

Chapters

6
V.1

Hardware and performance

Count work and memory, understand accelerator limits, then read a trace.

Scope
Role-specific
Difficulty
Advanced
Useful for
RE, Systems MLE, Performance
V.2

Distributed training and parallelism

Build from collectives and sharded matrix operations to multi-axis parallel plans.

Scope
Role-specific
Difficulty
Advanced
Useful for
RE, Systems MLE, RS
V.3

Training plans and reliability

Size a run, choose a layout, and preserve consistent state through failures.

Scope
Role-specific
Difficulty
Advanced
Useful for
RE, Systems MLE, RS
V.4

Inference systems and cost

Design a serving system, estimate cost, and choose measured optimizations.

Scope
Role-specific
Difficulty
Advanced
Useful for
MLE, RE, LLM engineer
V.5

ML platforms and operations

Version data and models, then design serving, monitoring, budget, and freshness as one operating system.

Scope
Core
Difficulty
Advanced
Useful for
MLE, AS, RE
V.6

Applied ML system design

Apply the lifecycle to high-stakes classification and human-review systems.

Scope
Core
Difficulty
Advanced
Useful for
MLE, AS