Case Study #1: Google TensorFlow

The Google Search business may be the most profitable business in the world. Google enjoys outrageous profit margins and market share domination of the world's #1 digital marketing media—search marketing. And the tool that drives Google's search marketing dominance is TensorFlow.

TensorFlow is an open-source ML and DL software library developed and managed by Google for data processing and model-driven programming across a range of tasks. Not only does Google's use of TensorFlow serve as the basis for its insanely profitable search engine, but TensorFlow also supports many other Google services including Photos (it auto-magically groups your photos into storyboards or collages), spoken word recognition (natural language processing), and foreign language translation (handy for me as I frequently travel internationally). Figure 6.9 depicts TensorFlow's high-level architecture, which is arguably the foundation for everything...