Creating web services over ML models using Flask
In this book, we’ve mostly focused on training, evaluating, and deploying ML models. However, we did not discuss the need to structure them flexibly. We worked with monolithic software. Monolithic software is characterized by its unified, single code base structure where all the functionalities, from the user interface to data processing, are tightly interwoven and operate as one cohesive unit. This design simplifies initial development and deployment since everything is bundled together and they are compiled together. Any change, however minor, requires the entire application to be rebuilt and redeployed. This makes it problematic when the evolution of contemporary software is fast.
On the other hand, web service-based software, which is often associated with microservices architecture, breaks down the application into smaller, independent services that communicate over the web, typically using protocols such as HTTP and REST...
