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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

By : Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

By: Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar

Overview of this book

Serverless applications are becoming very popular these days, not just because they save developers the trouble of managing the servers, but also because they provide several other benefits such as cutting heavy costs and improving the overall performance of the application. This book will help you build serverless applications in a quick and efficient way. We begin with an introduction to AWS and the API gateway, the environment for serverless development, and Zappa. We then look at building, testing, and deploying apps in AWS with three different frameworks--Flask, Django, and Pyramid. Setting up a custom domain along with SSL certificates and configuring them with Zappa is also covered. A few advanced Zappa settings are also covered along with securing Zappa with AWS VPC. By the end of the book you will have mastered using three frameworks to build robust and cost-efficient serverless apps in Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Technical requirements


Before making headway, let's understand the technical requirements and configure the development environment. This chapter does have a conceptual demonstration of an application development. Hence, there are some prerequisites:

  • Ubuntu 16.04/macOS/Windows
  • Python 3.6
  • Pipenv tool
  • Zappa
  • Flask
  • Flask Extensions

Once you have configured Python 3.6 and installed the Pipenv tool, you can create a virtual environment and install these packages. We are going to explore the installation and configuration of this in a later section. Let's move on and understand some basic concepts of Python-based frameworks and their related implementation.