Technical requirements
Here is a list of installments required for this chapter:
- Heroku account: Heroku is a popular platform that data scientists and software engineers use to host their applications, models, and APIs (application programming interfaces), and is owned by Salesforce. To get a Heroku account, please head over to https://signup.heroku.com to make your free account.
- Heroku Command-Line Interface (CLI): To use Heroku effectively, we will need to download the Heroku CLI, which will allow us to run Heroku commands. To download this, please follow the instructions listed here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) account: Before we can use AWS, we first need to sign up for our own Amazon account, which you can do at https://aws.amazon.com/free. Thankfully, there is a generous free tier available for students with .edu accounts, for start-up founders and entrepreneurs, and also for non-profits. Once you do...