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 has written several books about Python in French and English. When Tarek is not hacking on his computer or hanging out with his family, he's spending his time between his two passions: running and playing the trumpet.

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Key Features

A very useful guide for the vast Python developer community, who are shifting from Monolithic design to the new Microservices-based developmentA concise, up-to-date guide to building efficient and lightweight microservices in Python using Flask Tox and other toolsLearn 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 themUse Python 3, Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practicesConfigure and package your code in the best wayInteract with other servicesSecure, monitor, and scale your servicesDeploy your services in Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services