This API accepts user submission of one or more bank notes for analysis. After submission, backend processors perform prediction and publish results. The results can then be viewed using the predict API. This is created for demo purposes using go-chi HTTP framework for Golang.

Demo (nothing too sexy)

Architecture

Components

• Config (pending)
• Web App
• Ingest API (this repo)
• Predict API
• Processors

Prerequisites

You must be familiar with Google Cloud Platform and have the Google Cloud SDK (gcloud CLI) installed. If you want to recreate the AI Demo then you will want an active project with billing enabled.

• NOTE: when you are done remember to DELETE THE PROJECT to avoid unneccessary billing.

Install

The demo publishes a Docker image to container registry and deploys the app to Cloud Run. These are the steps to recreate this in your own environment.

export PROJECT_ID=$(gcloud config get-value project)
export TOPIC_ID="request"
export GCP_REGION="us-central1"

# create pubsub topics
gcloud pubsub topics create $TOPIC_ID

# create pubsub subscriptions
gcloud pubsub subscriptions create request-sub --topic $TOPIC_ID

# enable services
gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com \
    run.googleapis.com \
    cloudbuild.googleapis.com

# clone repo and change to directory
git clone git@github.com:mikesparr/ai-demo-ingest.git
cd ai-demo-ingest

# build the api image
gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/ai-demo-ingest

# deploy the api to cloud run
gcloud run deploy ai-demo-ingest \
    --image gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/ai-demo-ingest \
    --region $GCP_REGION \
    --allow-unauthenticated \
    --platform managed \
    --update-env-vars PROJECT_ID=$PROJECT_ID,TOPIC_ID=$TOPIC_ID

Usage

Once deployed, you can fetch the $INGEST_URL from Cloud Run and POST data to the API. Since it just publishes data to a Pub/Sub topic, you will just receive either the submitted record, or error message.

# get URL of service
export INGEST_URL=$(gcloud run services describe ai-demo-ingest --format="value(status.url)" --platform managed --region $GCP_REGION)

# test the API
curl -XPOST -H "Content-type: application/json" \
    $INGEST_URL/notes \
    -d '{"subjects": ["test-record"], "features": [[0.2234,1.2342,-1.3243,-0.9383]]}'                       

Spec

See the OAS2/Swagger specification config.yaml for more details

Validation

In an attempt to minimize "garbage in" but make the API user-friendly, adding thorough input checks to the {model}.Bind() with useful error message responses.

Other considerations

Although this is only a demo, a few additional features that should be added would be:

• automated tests
• standardized Request / Response
• retry logic with exponential backoff
• tracing, metrics using opentelemetry
• messages using cloudevents

Contributing

This is just a demo so fork and use at your own discretion.