Python microservices development : build efficient and lightweight microservices using the Python tooling ecosystem / Simon Fraser and Tarek Ziadé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Simon, author.

Ziadé, Tarek, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Python (Computer program language).

Python (Computer program language)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, [2021]

Summary:

Utilize Python microservices to break down your app development into bitesize pieces and deploy them as cloud services.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Understanding Microservices

The origins of service-oriented architecture

The monolithic approach

The microservice approach

Microservice benefits

Separation of concerns

Smaller projects

Scaling and deployment

Pitfalls of microservices

Illogical splitting

More network interactions

Data storing and sharing

Compatibility issues

Testing

Implementing microservices with Python

How web services work

The WSGI standard

Workers, threads, and synchronicity

A worker pool approach

Being asynchronous

Twisted, Tornado, Greenlets, and Gevent

Asynchronous Python

Language performance

Summary

Chapter 2: Discovering Quart

Making sure we have Python

How Quart handles requests

Routing

Variables and converters

The url_for function

Request

Response

Quart's built-in features

The session object

Globals

Signals

Extensions and middleware

Templates

Configuration

Blueprints

Error handling

Custom error handler

A microservice skeleton

Chapter 3: Coding, Testing, and Documentation: the Virtuous Cycle

Different kinds of tests

Unit tests

Functional tests

Integration tests

Load tests

End-to-end tests

Using pytest and tox

Developer documentation

Tools for documentation

Version control

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

GitHub Actions

Documentation

Coveralls

Badges

Chapter 4: Designing Jeeves

The Jeeves bot

User stories

Monolithic design

Model

View and template

A human-readable view

Slack workspaces

Taking actions

OAuth tokens

Authentication and authorization

Background tasks

Putting together the monolithic design

Chapter 5: Splitting the Monolith.

Identifying potential microservices

Code complexity and maintenance

Metrics and Monitoring

Logging

Splitting a Monolith

Feature Flags

Refactoring Jeeves

Workflow

Chapter 6: Interacting with Other Services

Calling other web resources

Finding out where to go

Environment variables

Service discovery

Transferring data

HTTP cache headers

GZIP compression

Protocol Buffers

MessagePack

Putting it together

Asynchronous messages

Message queue reliability

Basic queues

Topic exchanges and queues

Publish/subscribe

Using OpenAPI

Chapter 7: Securing Your Services

The OAuth2 protocol

X.509 certificate-based authentication

Token-based authentication

The JWT standard

PyJWT

Using a certificate with JWT

The TokenDealer microservice

The OAuth implementation

Using TokenDealer

Securing your code

Limiting your application scope

Untrusted incoming data

Redirecting and trusting queries

Sanitizing input data

Using Bandit linter

Dependencies

Web application firewall

OpenResty: Lua and nginx

Rate and concurrency limiting

Other OpenResty features

Chapter 8: Making a Dashboard

Building a ReactJS dashboard

The JSX syntax

React components

Pre-processing JSX

ReactJS and Quart

Cross-origin resource sharing

A note about Micro Frontends

Getting the Slack token

JavaScript authentication

Chapter 9: Packaging and Running Python

The packaging toolchain

A few definitions

Packaging

The setup.py file

The requirements.txt file

The MANIFEST.in file

Versioning

Releasing

Distributing

Running all microservices

Process management

Chapter 10: Deploying on AWS

What is Docker?.

Introduction to Docker

Running Quart in Docker

Docker-based deployments

Terraform

Docker Compose

Docker Swarm

Kubernetes

Chapter 11: What's Next?

Automation

Scaling

Content Delivery Networks

Multi-cloud deployments

Lambda Functions

Expanding monitoring

Making promises

Packt Page

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Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781801079372

1801079374

OCLC:

1273976578