Unleashing the power of WebSockets for real-time Model Inference

Author(s): Vatsal Saglani

Originally published on Towards AI.

A hands-on guide to serving model inference using sockets

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A Socket specifies a network address and port via which the application can communicate to the process on the network. Sockets are low-level programming interfaces that are commonly used for developing real-time, bi-directional communication between applications.

REST and Sockets are both used to create networked applications. REST (Representational State Transfer) is a Software Architecture style that defines a set of constraints and properties for creating web servicesREST uses a stateless request-response model wherein the server responds to a request without maintaining the previous state or data exchanged in the previous requestSockets use a bi-directional, full-duplex communication channel, which means… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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