Machine Learning
Machine Learning
So far, we've been asking questions about our data. How many products were sold? Which city generated the highest revenue? How many users logged in yesterday? These questions explain the past. But businesses wanted something more. Can we predict which customer is likely to leave? Can we detect fraud before it happens? Can we recommend the next product a customer might buy? The engineering problem became clear. How do we build systems that learn patterns from data instead of following fixed rules? The engineering concept that solved this problem is Machine Learning. Instead of writing rules for every situation, engineers train a model using historical data. The model discovers patterns, learns relationships and uses that knowledge to make predictions on new data. As more data becomes available, the model can be retrained and improved. Amazon Web Services provides this through Amazon SageMaker. Microsoft Azure provides Azure Machine Learning. Google Cloud provides Vertex AI. Different names. One engineering concept. Applications no longer just stored and analyzed data. They began making intelligent predictions from it. But another challenge soon appeared. Building a machine learning model is one thing. How do we train models that require enormous computing power without managing the underlying infrastructure ourselves?
