Java is a popular, general-purpose programming language for a range of tasks including web applications, games development and data analysis. Part of the appeal of Java is that it compiles to java byte code which can be run on any machine with the Java runtime environment installed. This means that developers only need to write… Read More »
JSON is a common format for sending data to and from a RESTful API. In this post we’ll see how we can allow a simple Flask API to receive a JSON input. This post extends my previous post which made a simple Flask RESTful API and uses the Flask ‘get_json()’ method to accept JSON input.… Read More »
Once you have trained a sci-kit learn model it is not obvious how you can deploy it and use it to score unseen data. This post shows you how to save and learn sci-kit learn models so you can execute it against unseen data. Train Your Model The first step is to train the model… Read More »
Tox is a tool for building and running a matrix of test environments. This is useful when, for example, you need to support several different versions of python. You don’t want to have to manually run tests againsts each of your supported versions. This post shows you how you can use tox with anaconda. If,… Read More »
Heroku is a ‘platform as a service’ (PaaS) cloud provider. Heroku makes it easy to deploy apps by pushing to git repositories or using docker containers. This post shows you how you can deploy docker to Heroku. The Heroku website already has some good guides to help you deploy docker to Heroku, but I found… Read More »