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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


There are some prerequisites to meet before you start this chapter. We are going to work with some AWS services and a real domain name. Therefore, you will need the following:

  • Ubuntu 16.04/Windows/macOS
  • Pipenv tool
  • Zappa and other Python dev packages
  • Registered domain
  • AWS account

We are going to use some Python packages, which are mentioned in later sections. Apart from the development environment, you will need to have your own registered domain and permission to update its default nameservers. Let's move to the next section, where we will be exploring the domain nameserver configuration with AWS Route 53.