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Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI - Second Edition

By : François Voron
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Book Image

Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI - Second Edition

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By: François Voron

Overview of this book

Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI is the go-to resource for creating efficient and dependable data science API backends. This second edition incorporates the latest Python and FastAPI advancements, along with two new AI projects – a real-time object detection system and a text-to-image generation platform using Stable Diffusion. The book starts with the basics of FastAPI and modern Python programming. You'll grasp FastAPI's robust dependency injection system, which facilitates seamless database communication, authentication implementation, and ML model integration. As you progress, you'll learn testing and deployment best practices, guaranteeing high-quality, resilient applications. Throughout the book, you'll build data science applications using FastAPI with the help of projects covering common AI use cases, such as object detection and text-to-image generation. These hands-on experiences will deepen your understanding of using FastAPI in real-world scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll be well equipped to maintain, design, and monitor applications to meet the highest programming standards using FastAPI, empowering you to create fast and reliable data science API backends with ease while keeping up with the latest advancements.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Python and FastAPI
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Part 2: Building and Deploying a Complete Web Backend with FastAPI
13
Part 3: Building Resilient and Distributed Data Science Systems with FastAPI

Developing a RESTful API with FastAPI

Now it’s time to begin learning about FastAPI! In this chapter, we’ll cover the basics of FastAPI. We’ll go through very simple and focused examples that will demonstrate the different features of FastAPI. Each example will lead to a working API endpoint that you’ll be able to test yourself using HTTPie. In the final section of this chapter, we’ll show you a more complex FastAPI project, with routes split across several files. It will give you an overview of how you can structure your own application.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll know how to start a FastAPI application and how to write an API endpoint. You’ll also be able to handle request data and build a response according to your own logic. Finally, you’ll learn a way to structure a FastAPI project into several modules that will be easier to maintain and work with in the long term.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following...