Arvind Ravulavaru - Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide

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Arvind Ravulavaru is a platform architect at Ubiconn IoT Solutions, with over 9 years of experience in software development and 2 years in hardware and product development. For the last 5 years, he has been working extensively on JavaScript, both on the server side and the client side, and for the last couple of years he has working in IoT, building a platform for rapidly developing IoT solutions named The IoT Suitcase. Prior to that, Arvind worked on big data, cloud computing, and orchestration.

Chirag Nayyar helps organizations initiate their digital transformation using the public cloud. He has been actively working on cloud platforms since 2013, providing consultancy to many organizations ranging from SMB to Enterprises. He holds a wide range of certifications from all major public cloud platforms. He also runs meetups and is a regular speaker at various cloud events. He has also reviewed Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform and Google Cloud Platform Cookbook, by Packt.

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Cognition as a Service (CAAS) is the new kid on the block. No longer do engineers need to spend time building intelligence on top of their applications. Now, intelligence is borrowed from various services.

Welcome to Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide , where we will explore the powerful Google Cloud AI services via a project-based approach. We will build a forum application named SmartExchange, similar to Discourse or stack overflow, where users start a discussion thread and other users comment on it. To administer the content that goes into the SmartExchange application, we will use Google Cloud AI services such as the Cloud Vision API and Video Intelligence API.

This book is ideal for any reader who would like to use the power of Google Cloud AI services in their projects without going through the pain of mastering machine learning for images, videos, and text. Any reader who would like to get acquainted with Cloud AI services provided by Google will also find this book interesting.

Readers need to have prior knowledge of working with REST API services and should have an idea of working with the MEAN application stack. Basic knowledge of TypeScript is also essential for successfully completing this book.

, Introducing Google Cloud AI Services , introduces you to the world of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will understand various services provided by GCP, and we will deep dive into all the services provided by Google Cloud AI services. You will understand the basics of machine learning and AI in this chapter and how they tie in with Cognition as a Service (CAAS).

, Setting Up a Smart Forum App , walks you through the architecture and design of the application (SmartExchange) we will build. We will understand the database schema and the application stack. We will then download the base application and set it up. We will also set up the required keys for accessing Google Cloud AI services.

, Cloud Vision API , explains how to work with the Cloud Vision API over REST API. We will explore various features that we can detect using this API. Finally, we will integrate the Cloud Vision API services with SmartExchange