Loading AI model at server startup

You have to deploy a trained sentiment analysis model that helps in moderating comments from users. To ensure zero downtime, the API needs to be ready to analyze user comments as soon as it starts up.

In this exercise, you'll implement FastAPI's lifespan events to load your model efficiently to build the comment moderation systems. The SentimentAnalyzer model class is already defined and imported for you.

This exercise is part of the course

Deploying AI into Production with FastAPI

Exercise instructions

Import the context manager decorator from the contextlib module to create the lifespan event.
Use FastAPI's context manager decorator to define the lifespan event function to ensure model loads at startup.
Call the function to load the model at startup in the lifespan event.
Yield to allow the server loading process to continue.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import the context manager decorator from contextlib module
from contextlib import ____

sentiment_model = None

def load_model():
    global sentiment_model
    sentiment_model = SentmentAnalyzer("sentiment_model.joblib")

# Use FastAPI's context manager to define lifespan event
@____
def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
    # Call the function to load the model
    ____
    ____

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Deploying AI into Production with FastAPI

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