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Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI
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Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI

by Alireza Parandeh
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
12h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 7. Integrating Databases into AI Services

In this chapter, you’ll integrate a database to your current API service to store and retrieve user interactions.

This chapter assumes basic experience working with databases and Structured Query Language (SQL), so it won’t cover every aspect of SQL programming and database workflows. Instead, you will learn the higher-level database concepts, development workflows, and best practices when integrating databases to your FastAPI applications that interact with GenAI models such as LLMs.

As part of this, you will learn the role of relational (SQL) versus nonrelational (noSQL) databases in application development and will be able to confidently select the right database for your use case. Next, you will understand more about the features of relational databases and associated tooling such as object relational mappers (ORMs) and database migration tools. Finally, ...

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