Handling ML Predictions in a Flask App

Don’t let long-running code slow down your Flask app

One of the projects I worked on for the Metis data science bootcamp involved creating an MVP of a Flask app to display movie recommendations to a user (think Netflix home screen). My recommendations involved a model prediction combined with a SQL query — and all of this was being done when a request came in, before the response was sent. Come presentation day, loading the main page of the site took about 30 seconds. To be fair, this was an MVP I created on a short deadline in a data science bootcamp; not a web-dev bootcamp. Still, 30 seconds of wait time is not so good. After graduating, once I had more time, I took a second look at my project to see what I could have improved. Here are two options I could have explored that would have drastically sped up my page loading time without having to change my prediction algorithm.

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