2 Building a serverless image recognition system, part 1

This chapter covers

  • Building a simple AI as a Service system
  • Setting up the cloud environment
  • Setting up a local development environment
  • Implementing a simple asynchronous service
  • Deploying to the cloud

In this chapter and in chapter 3 we will focus on building our first AI-enabled serverless system. By the end, you will have configured and deployed to the cloud a small system that is capable of reading and recognizing images from a web page and displaying the results for review. This may sound like an awful lot of work for a single chapter and indeed, before the advent of Serverless and off-the-shelf AI, the progress that we will make in this chapter would have taken a small team of ...

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