You're reading from Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837632749

Pages 422 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Data Science

Author (1):

François Voron

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Python and FastAPI

2. Chapter 1: Python Development Environment Setup

3. Chapter 2: Python Programming Specificities

4. Chapter 3: Developing a RESTful API with FastAPI

5. Chapter 4: Managing Pydantic Data Models in FastAPI

6. Chapter 5: Dependency Injection in FastAPI

7. Part 2: Building and Deploying a Complete Web Backend with FastAPI

8. Chapter 6: Databases and Asynchronous ORMs

9. Chapter 7: Managing Authentication and Security in FastAPI

10. Chapter 8: Defining WebSockets for Two-Way Interactive Communication in FastAPI

11. Chapter 9: Testing an API Asynchronously with pytest and HTTPX

12. Chapter 10: Deploying a FastAPI Project

13. Part 3: Building Resilient and Distributed Data Science Systems with FastAPI

14. Chapter 11: Introduction to Data Science in Python

15. Chapter 12: Creating an Efficient Prediction API Endpoint with FastAPI

16. Chapter 13: Implementing a Real-Time Object Detection System Using WebSockets with FastAPI

17. Chapter 14: Creating a Distributed Text-to-Image AI System Using the Stable Diffusion Model

18. Chapter 15: Monitoring the Health and Performance of a Data Science System

19. Index

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