Comprxn as Mirco Service using FastAPI hosted on Heroku

Author: Yusuf Khan

Using fastAPI to deploy compression algorithm as a service

Example of using fastAPI and Heroku to deploy and host a ML related service.

In this scenario, coded a k-means (EM) algorithm from scratch and hosted the compression code as an app and deployed on Heroku.

Example

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More details and improvements to come.

• Heroku timeout to be dealt with by pushing tasks to background jobs