Build And Host Fast Data Science Applications Using FastAPI (2024)

I have recently hosted a number of production-ready data science applications as Restful web services using the FastAPI web framework.

I found FastAPI to be stable and easy to use and for those reasons, I have decided to write an article on FastAPI library outlining the steps we can follow to host a data science application.

FastAPI was released in 2018 and is becoming the de facto choice for building high performant data science applications.

This article will explain what FastAPI is, why it’s superior to its competitors, along with a step by step guide on how to host a data science application using the FastAPI.

Think of FastAPI as a wrapper around a data science application to expose its functionality as a RESTFUL microservice