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One of the most annoying things in the world is when you're trying to steal an image from the internet, and it looks like it's going to have a transparent background, but when you download it, it looks like this.

Luckily, nowadays there are all kinds of good tools for removing backgrounds from images, like RemoveBG or the new AI tools in Photoshop.

Now if you watch my videos, you'll notice I use a lot of images with the background removed, and it's extremely inefficient to have to go into Photoshop, upload an image, remove its background,

and then re-export it and bring it back into Adobe Premiere.

As a developer, this inefficiency is totally unacceptable, and my only option was to build my own app from scratch.

In today's video, I want to show you how I built this background remover from scratch, but more importantly, I want to talk about why I dockerized it, and explain how I deployed it to the cloud for free.

Earlier this week on the main channel, I made a Docker video, which you should definitely check out first if you have no idea what Docker is, but that video was sponsored by Docker.

This video is not sponsored.

I don't work with sponsors very often, but when I do, it's usually with tools that I have first-hand experience with, and Docker is something I use all the time.

By containerizing this background remover, which is just a Python web app, I'm able to run it locally with the click of a button, and also deploy it to the cloud with a single command.

Without Docker, I would have to go into my terminal, make sure I have the right Python dependencies installed, and then run the app in the background every time I want to use it.

And on top of that, deployment to the cloud would be a lot more complex, and also more expensive.

First I want to talk about the app itself.

The reason I built this app in Python, and not my typical choice of JavaScript, is that there's a python package called removeBG,

which is based on the U2net model to magically remove the background with AI.

Oh man, I just realized I said the A word again.

I guess we have to reset the counter, but really this video has nothing to do with AI.

The model itself is heavily abstracted, to the point where all we do is open an image with Pillow, call the remove function from this library, which returns a new image with the background removed.

It's an extremely practical use case for image models, but I don't want to use it from the terminal.

I want to be able to drag and drop images directly from my browser into it, so I can then drag the result directly back into my Adobe Premiere timeline.

To do that, I built a little app with Flask, which creates a single HTTP route that handles both git and post methods.

Git displays the initial webpage, then when we drag an image into that webpage, it makes a post request, which calls that remove background function.

Now the website itself is rendered in this index.html file, which uses nothing but plain JavaScript and CSS.

There's an HTML form with a file input, then when that form is submitted, it makes a post request to the root URL.

I also wrote a little bit of JavaScript here that will automatically submit the form when a file is dropped onto it, just to make the process even more efficient.

That's the entire app, and now I can run it from the terminal with the Python command.

But now here's where Docker comes in.

I want to be able to use this code on multiple computers, and I also want to deploy it to the web

so I could even use it from my phone or some other device.

And I want everyone in the world to have the opportunity to use my awesome invention.

First, you'll need to have Docker installed.

I'm doing that through Docker Desktop, but in the past I've used tools like Podman, which is developed by Red Hat and is also a good option.

But now we need to go into our code and create a Docker file.

The Docker file itself is very simple.

It starts with the official Python base image, creates a working directory for the app, installs the dependencies, copies the code, exposes a port, and then runs the app.

The only unusual thing I'm doing here is taking the actual AI model weights and copying them into the Docker image.

The weights are about 175 megabytes, and doing this prevents the actual Python package from downloading asynchronously, which will slow things down in general.

Now let's build the image and make sure to give it a tag.

That'll take a minute, then if we go into Docker Desktop, we should see it here in the images panel.

To actually run the image as a container, we simply hit the play button, and make sure to map the port to something we can use on localhost.

And now the app is always ready to go in the background with Docker.

Pretty cool, and that's how I use this tool 90% of the time, but I also want to show you how to deploy it to the web.

There's a bunch of different options for deploying containers to the cloud, and there's also some free options if you're cheap like me.

The most well-known option is Elastic Container Engine on AWS with a related service called Fargate

that can deploy your container in a serverless way, which means it will scale down to zero when it's not in use

and then scale back up once the requests start coming in.

You've also got services like the app platform on DigitalOcean, which starts at $0 a month, but my go-to for deploying random utilities like this is Google Cloud Run.

To deploy something that's dockerized, though, you first need to get your image on a registry.

Every cloud has one built in, and on Google, it's called Artifact Registry.

What you do is create a repository for your images that'll store them in a specific region, and then you can copy this link up here, which can be used as a tag on your images,

so it knows where to upload them.

Let's go into the terminal and use the docker tag command to tag our existing image with this namespace.

Once that's done, we can use the docker push command to upload it to Google Cloud.

Now, one caveat is that of course you need a Google Cloud account, and you'll also need the gcloud CLI tool installed on your system.

But once that's done, you should then be able to see the image in Google Cloud.

One nice thing about this is that if you want to use this image on a different machine, you can simply pull it from this repo.

But now let's head over to Cloud Run and deploy it to the internet.

Create a new service, then the first thing you'll do is select that container image.

Now from here we have a bunch of configuration options, but if you want to make this a public web service, the most important one is to allow unauthenticated invocations.

That means anybody can access it from a public API or URL.

The next option is CPU allocation.

One problem with serverless deployments is that when the app is not being used, it scales down to zero, which is great because it means you're not paying for anything, but the tradeoff is a cold start,

which means it takes like four or five seconds for the thing to boot up when the next request comes in.

In my case, that's not a problem, but if you want to eliminate cold starts, you can make sure that the CPU is always allocated.

It's just going to cost more because you'll always be burning through these free CPU seconds every month.

Now from there, let's go down to the container options, and one thing we'll also want to change here is the allocated memory for the container.

It takes a lot of memory to run the AI model, so let's bump this up to two gigabytes.

One other thing I want to do is also decrease the amount of auto-scaling this thing can do.

Instead of 100 maximum instances, I'm only going to allow three.

We just don't need to be prepared to scale for this type of app, but it's nice to have that option if you're building something viral.

Let's go ahead and deploy it, and a few minutes later, we should have a URL where we can actually access our Python app on the web.

Pretty awesome, and one huge benefit of having this all dockerized is that our code is portable, so if we want to get off Cloud Run, we could take that to any other cloud service and deploy it there just as easily.

And that's basically all there is to it.

There's a ton of other stuff we could talk about when it comes to Docker and Cloud run, but let me know what you want to see next in the comments.

I do have one update for Fireship Pro members.

I'm currently finishing up a new Stripe course that's designed specifically for people building software as a service products.

More details to come on that soon.

Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.

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この動画では、開発者が画像の背景を自動で削除するアプリを作り、Dockerでコンテナ化してクラウドに無料でデプロイする過程を説明しています。日常的な開発作業の中での「非効率」を解決するために自分でツールを作る姿勢や、PythonやDocker、クラウドサービスなどの技術的な内容が盛り込まれています。テクニカルな用語が多いですが、話し方は親しみやすく、初心者にも理解しやすいように説明されています。

日常会話に使える注目のフレーズ5選

"This is totally unacceptable" - 「これはまったく受け入れられない」という強い否定の表現。不満や問題を指摘する時に使えます。
"I guess we have to reset the counter" - 「カウンターをリセットしないといけないね」という、ちょっとしたジョークや冗談の文脈で使われるフレーズ。
"It's an extremely practical use case" - 「非常に実用的なユースケースです」。技術的な話やアイデアの価値を説明する時に便利です。
"Pretty cool" - 「かなりいいね」「すごいね」という口語的な賞賛の表現。日常会話でよく使われます。
"if you're cheap like me" - 「私みたいに安物好きなら」という自嘲的な表現。親しい間で冗談交じりに使えます。

シャドーイングのステップバイステップガイド

この動画はテクニカルな用語が多いため、シャドーイングする際はまずスピードを落として聞き取ることが重要です。以下の手順で取り組んでみましょう。

動画を1.25倍速で再生して全体を把握する：最初は内容を理解することを優先し、難しい単語は一旦スルーしても大丈夫です。
注目のフレーズを抜き出して反復練習する：先ほど挙げたフレーズや、"dockerized" "serverless"などの技術用語を集中的に練習し、発音とリズムを覚えます。
シャドーイングサイトを使って同期的に発声する：shadowspeaksのようなシャドーイングサイトを利用し、動画の音声に合わせて即座に繰り返します。これで自然な発音とイントネーションを身につけられます。
録音して自分の発音を確認する：自分の声を録音して原音と比較し、アクセントやポーズの違いを見つけて修正します。

動画で英語学習をする際は、単に聞くだけでなくシャドースピーチを続けることで、リスニングとスピーキングのスキルを同時に向上させることができます。難しい部分は何度も繰り返し、徐々にスピードを上げていきましょう。

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話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	was sponsored · is not sponsored · is based
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	remover, which is · Podman, which is · way, which means

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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