Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the importance of good architecture design for artificial intelligence applications. We created a reference architecture design for web applications that will be the template for all of our hands-on projects in part 2 of this book. Using this reference architecture, we recreated the Amazon Rekognition demo application using several AWS tools and services in the serverless style. We built the demo application's backend with AWS Chalice and boto3 and leveraged AWS S3 and Amazon Rekognition to provide the business capabilities. Through the hands-on project, we showed you how architecture boundaries and good design allow for flexible application development and evolution. We also built a simple web user interface for the demo application with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Finally, we deployed the demo application as a serverless application to the AWS cloud.

Now that we have experience building a simple yet elegant intelligent-enabled application, we are ready to use the same architecture template and toolset to build more AI applications in part 2 of this book.