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Let’s discuss how to refactor an existing monolith to microservices.

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How we go about converting a monolith varies in the details for any given monolith. We could go about this in many ways, but here I’ll give you some basic strategies and tactics for conversion.

The basic idea is the same as any development process. It’s all about iteration, small and simple changes and keeping it working as you go (illustrated in figure 1).

Conversion of a monolith…

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This article covers:

• Analysis of Binomials using the SciPy library.

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Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection and interpretation of numeric data. It’s the precursor of all modern data science. The term Statistic originally signified “the science of the state”, because statistical methods were first developed to analyze the data of state governments. Because since ancient times, government agencies have gathered data pertaining to their populace. That data can be used to levy taxes, organize large military campaigns…

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In this series, we cover model deployment: the process of putting models to use. In particular, we’ll see how to package a model inside a web service, allowing other services to use it. We also show how to deploy the web service to a production-ready environment.

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Churn prediction model

To get started with deployment we’ll use the model that gets used in the book, you can download the source code here (the model and data are in the CH 03 folder and the other relevant…

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This article describes how Transport Layer Security Works.

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Today, Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the de-facto standard to secure communications between applications. In this article you will learn more about how TLS works underneath the surface, and how it is used in practice. You will find this section useful to understand how to use TLS properly, but also to understand how most (if not all) secure transport protocols work. …

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What is the Jamstack and what can it do?

The Jamstack is more of an architecture or methodology for building web applications than a prescriptive stack of technologies. Jamstack was formed in response to dynamic web page development that many felt had become cumbersome, slow and insecure. The Jamstack architecture offers a number of benefits including page speed, security and cost.

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As Jamstack has gained popularity in recent years, one common criticism is that it’s nothing but a marketing term. The truth…

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This article covers:

• Building sentiment classifier using logistic regression and with softmax
• Measuring classification accuracy
• Computing ROC curve and measure classifier effectiveness
• Submitting your results to the Kaggle challenge for Movie Reviews

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Check out part 1 here to learn about using text and word frequency (Bag of Words) to represent sentiment.

Building a sentiment classifier using logistic regression

When dealing with logistic regression you identify the dependent and independent variables. In sentiment analysis, your dependent variable is your 5000-dimensional feature vector Bag of Words per review…

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In this article, we cover some representative deep transfer learning modeling architectures for NLP that rely on a recently popularized neural architecture — the transformer — for key functions.

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This is arguably the most important architecture for natural language processing (NLP) today. Specifically, we look at modeling frameworks such as the generative pretrained transformer (GPT), bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) and multilingual BERT (mBERT). These methods employ neural networks with more parameters than most deep convolutional and recurrent…

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