Azure AI Reference Architectures & Best Practices

Official Azure Reference Architectures and Best Practices for AI workloads

Getting Started

This repository is arranged as submodules and therefore you can either pull all the tutorials or simply the ones you want. To pull all the tutorials simply run:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/dciborow/AIArchitecturesAndPractices.git

if you have git older than 2.13 run:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dciborow/AIArchitecturesAndPractices.git

Best Practices

Title	Description
Computer Vision	Accelerate the development of computer vision applications with examples and best practice guidelines for building computer vision systems
Naturel Language Processing	State-of-the-art methods and common scenarios that are popular among researchers and practitioners working on problems involving text and language.
Recommenders	Examples and best practices for building recommendation systems, provided as Jupyter notebooks.

Reference Architectures

Title	Language	Environment	Design	Description	Status
Deploy Classic ML Model on Kubernetes	Python	CPU	Real-Time Scoring	Train LightGBM model locally using Azure ML, deploy on Kubernetes or IoT Edge for real-time scoring
Deploy Deep Learning Model on Kubernetes	Python	Keras	Real-Time Scoring	Deploy image classification model on Kubernetes or IoT Edge for real-time scoring using Azure ML

Best Practices with Reference Architectures

Title	Practice	Language	Environment	Design	Description	Status
Building a Real-time Recommendation API	Recommenders	PySpark	CPU	Real-Time Scoring	Walks through the creation of appropriate azure resources, training a recommendation model using Azure Databricks and deploying it as an API.

Recommend a Scenario

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Ongoing Work

We are constantly developing interesting AI reference architectures using Microsoft AI Platform. Some of the ongoing projects include IoT Edge scenarios, model scoring on mobile devices, add more... To follow the progress and any new reference architectures, please go to the AI section of this link.

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