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Python Microservices Development

Build, test, deploy, and scale microservices in Python

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
Paid access
|Aug 2017

A practical approach to conquering the complexities of Microservices using the Python tooling ecosystem

Key Features

  • A very useful guide for Python developers who are shifting to the new microservices-based development
  • A concise, up-to-date guide to building efficient and lightweight microservices in Python using Flask, Tox, and other tools
  • Learn to use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your services

Book Description

We often deploy our web applications into the cloud, and our code needs to interact with many third-party services. An efficient way to build applications to do this is through microservices architecture. But, in practice, it's hard to get this right due to the complexity of all the pieces interacting with each other.

This book will teach you how to overcome these issues and craft applications that are built as small standard units, using all the proven best practices and avoiding the usual traps. It's a practical book: you’ll build everything using Python 3 and its amazing tooling ecosystem. You will understand the principles of TDD and apply them.

You will use Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practices. You will learn how to secure connections between services, and how to script Nginx using Lua to build web application firewall features such as rate limiting. You will also familiarize yourself with Docker’s role in microservices, and use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your services.

This book will take you on a journey, ending with the creation of a complete Python application based on microservices. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with the fundamentals of building, designing, testing, and deploying your Python microservices.

What you will learn

  • Explore what microservices are and how to design them
  • Use Python 3, Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practices
  • Learn how to use a TDD approach
  • Discover how to document your microservices
  • Configure and package your code in the best way
  • Interact with other services
  • Secure, monitor, and scale your services
  • Deploy your services in Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services

Who this book is for

This book is for developers who have basic knowledge of Python, the command line, and HTTP-based application principles, and those who want to learn how to build, test, scale, and manage Python 3 microservices. No prior experience of writing microservices in Python is assumed.

Table of Contents

  1. Understanding Microservices
  2. Working with flask
  3. Test-driven development and documentation, the virtuous cycle
  4. Designing Forrest
  5. Interacting with other services
  6. Monitoring your services
  7. Securing your services
  8. Consuming the Microservices
  9. Packaging Forrest
  10. Dockerizing your services
  11. Deploying on AWS
  12. Thinking ahead
https://github.com/packtpublishing/python-microservices-development
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-678-2
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 340
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
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