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 # Single Poker Hand Ranking Service
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+This project started as a take-home interview task for an MLOps Engineer role. It is a very simple calculation I've wildly overengineered into a demonstration of how I go about building APIs.
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 ## Project Scope
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 This service comprises an API to compute the rank of an individual poker hand. The scope of this project is to:
 
 - Write an algorithm that takes a hand of cards and identifies the ranking of the given hand.
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 ## Requirements
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 - Python 3.11
 - [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/)
 - [GNU Make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/)
 
 ## Usage
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 - Install with `make install`.
 - Run linting and tests with `make quality test coverage clean`.
 - Build the API container with `make build`, then run API with `docker compose up -d`.