Further Development Opportunities

[michael-rowland]

Beyond the issues already posted, there are a number of "stretch goal" type ideas we had:

• Recommendation performance. Speed up recommendation latency times. There is currently several seconds between a call to our API, and displaying on web and iOS. I would guess there are a number of performance gains to be made by restructuring how our code runs.
• FastAPI. Ryan Herr suggests using FastAPI, however, we deployed via Flask primarily due to our familiarity with the framework. FastAPI has several advantages (documentation, speed) which will likely help with the performance aspect mentioned above.
• CodeClimate. This was required for the Web team, but optional for DS. CodeClimate provides good information on code test coverage, maintainability, styling, etc.

Feel free to reach out to me on Slack for any clarification!

[jose-marquez89]

A note on FastAPI: If you want to fully take advantage of FastAPI's performance gains, make sure to read the documentation section on asynchronous API calls and how FastAPI takes advantage of python's async function definitions.