How to start a flask app from within a python script in a separate thread?

Question

I have a script that is extracting data from an internal service and storing the count of data types in memory like this:

metrics = {
   \"new_accounts\": 15         


        

Answer 1

Try to put Your metric to Queue:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/queue.html

Flask endpoint can read all data from Queue, and expose last value as endpoint data

Cheers, Fenrir