Vertex AI Unlocked: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Building Smarter AI Apps, Workflows, and ML Pipelines

By Fred Thompson

Unlock the full power of Google Cloud's Vertex AI and elevate your skills from beginner to expert with the most comprehensive guide to building production-grade AI solutions ever published. Vertex AI Unlocked: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Building Smarter AI Apps, Workflows, and ML Pipelines is the definitive all-in-one resource for learning, implementing, and scaling machine learning and generative AI on one of the world's leading platforms. Whether you are completely new to AI development or already experimenting with Vertex AI and seeking to advance your expertise, this book will guide you step by step from foundational setup to advanced, enterprise-ready deployments.

Inside, you will discover how to: Set up your Vertex AI environment, create your first model, and deploy it in minutes using AutoML for tabular, image, text, and video data. Master custom training at scale with distributed GPUs, hyperparameter tuning, and containerized workflows. Harness generative AI with Gemini models, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and image generation with Imagen. Build robust data management systems using Vertex AI Feature Store for real-time and batch feature serving. Design end-to-end MLOps pipelines with Vertex Pipelines for automated training, evaluation, and deployment. Implement model monitoring, explainability, and responsible AI practices to ensure compliance and trustworthiness. Construct autonomous AI agents with Vertex AI Agent Builder for multi-step reasoning and tool integration. Apply real-world case studies across healthcare, retail, manufacturing, finance, and more to adapt proven patterns to your projects. Access a bonus kit with downloadable code templates, Terraform modules, prompt libraries, and pipeline starters.

Unlike scattered online tutorials or fragmented documentation, this book delivers a complete journey-blending authoritative expertise, hands-on labs, practical tips, and lessons from production deployments at leading organizations. By the end, you will not just "use" Vertex AI; you will master it as a strategic tool for innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Perfect for developers, data scientists, technical leaders, students, and career-switchers-this is the only book you will need to become an AI powerhouse with Vertex AI. If you are ready to build smarter, faster, and more scalable AI applications, workflows, and ML pipelines, then this is your ultimate playbook for Vertex AI mastery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G7TKXVC1
• ISBN13: 9798278983392
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"