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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

By : Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
Book Image

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

Chapter 7. Building a Falcon Application with Zappa

In this chapter, we are going to implement an application based on the Falcon framework. This application will be related to quotes; you will be able to fetch a quote of the day and generate a random quote. I hope it will be interesting to you. We are going to include a scheduler, which will be responsible for fetching a random quote from a third party API and putting it into our database. We will set this scheduler to be executed once a day. Let's get ready for the ride.

Topics we will cover in this chapter include the following:

  • Installing and configuring Falcon
  • Designing Falcon APIs
  • Building, testing, and deploying the Falcon APIs using Zappa