Shipping a model behind FastAPI without the notebook
Turned a notebook that had been "almost ready" for three weeks into an actual service this week. The model didn't change — the packaging did. What made the difference: One predict.py with a pure function, no global state A tiny test that loads the model and runs a fixed input Docker with a pinned wheel, not a pip install at boot The notebook is still useful for experiments. It just isn't the…
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