Deploy a Real‑Time Object Detection API with YOLOv8 & FastAPI

Why combine YOLOv8 and FastAPI? Object detection is at the heart of many modern applications—think smart cameras, inventory robots, or AR experiences. YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once) gives you state‑of‑the‑art accuracy while still running fast enough for real‑time use. FastAPI, on the other hand, is a lightweight, async‑first web framework that makes it trivial to expose a model as a REST endpoint. In this tutorial you’ll walk through: Preparing a small custom dataset and training a YOLOv8 model. Wr