Python Microservices Development: Build, test, deploy, and scale microservices in Python - Softcover

Ziadé, Tarek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785881116 ISBN 13: 9781785881114

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

About This Book

• 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

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.

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 and tackle the challenges that arise in this interaction
• Secure, monitor, and scale your services
• Deploy your services in Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services

In Detail

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.

This book will teach you how to do that and overcome the 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.

About this title

About the Author

Tarek Ziadé is a Python developer, located in the countryside near Dijon, France. He works at Mozilla in the services team. He founded a French Python user group called Afpy, and he has written several books about Python in French and English. When he is not hacking on his computer or hanging out with his family, he's spending time between his two passions, running and playing the trumpet.

You can visit his personal blog (Fetchez le Python) and follow him on Twitter (@tarek_ziade). You can also take a look at one of his books on Amazon, Expert Python Programming, published by Packt.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785881116
• ISBN 13: 9781785881114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340