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Ask HN: Next steps for scaling a scikit-learn Flask ML API

We currently have an internal API that's core to our business. The models are loaded as .pkl files with scikit-learn joblib and served via Flask w/ Gunicorn using Gevent. We've tried Tornado as a worker class and Cherrypy as a replacement for Gunicorn -- none produce significant performance benefits.We're hosting it in a Kubernetes cluster with really large nodes (140GB). Each container user...

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Re:Fucking Shell Scripts on Friday March 14, 2014 @08:31PM (#7402891)
We were coming from Chef where no one knew what was going on. We were looking for something simpler. There wasn't really many other options unfortunately. We're not full-time devops people...hence much of our frustration.

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