Slows Jupyter Notebook start

[djherbis]

Hi when I enable the tensorboard extension in my Jupyter Notebook server it adds an extra 4s for the server to become reachable.

I filed this bug jupyter/notebook#4818 to see if Juptyer extensions in general could be loaded lazily, but I'm curious if this problem could be solved on the tensorboard side?

Any idea why it adds this much time to the server startup and if it could be made faster?

[djherbis]

Looks like it's loading the manager that is the 'slow' part:

jupyter_tensorboard/jupyter_tensorboard/handlers.py

Line 22 in 5d6fa13

from .tensorboard_manager import manager

Looks like even in a 'warmed' env (jupyter notebook run a few times), this adds ~2s.

Wonder if we could make loading it lazy.

[djherbis]

And from there the slowdown is caused by:

jupyter_tensorboard/jupyter_tensorboard/tensorboard_manager.py

Line 19 in 5d6fa13

from tensorboard import default

Source:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard/blob/master/tensorboard/default.py

[Jason-Khan]

can someone provide some insights to how we can solve this slowdown? its been more than 2 years and this issue is still single-handedly blocking all kaggle notebook users from using tensorboard in kaggle notebook