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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

Chapter 1, Amazon Web Services for Serverless


  1. Deploying your application on serverless architecture is nothing but handover your application to Amazon infrastructure. Hence, there are the following benefits:
    • Amazon will take care of auto scalability
    • No server management process is required
    • It also makes a huge difference in terms of cost, you pay as per usage which is based on the execution time
    • It provide high availability
  1. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a storage service provided by Amazon. AWS Lambda supports inline code execution, where you can directly write your code from its web interface. It also supports fetching the code base from an Amazon S3 bucket, where you can put your code base as a build package in ZIP format. Zappa has a command to generate the ZIP package of your application.