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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

What is Flask?


Flask is a well-known Python micro web framework in the Python community. It's adopted and preferable because of its extensible nature. Flask aims to keep the code simple but extensible.

By default, Flask does not include any database abstraction layer, form validation, or any other specific functionality. Instead, Flask supports extensions to add any well-defined functionality to your application. Numerous extensions are available to provide database integration, form validation, file upload handling, authentication, and more. The Flask core team reviews extensions and ensures that they won't break the future release.

Flask allows you to define the design as per your application needs. You are not bound to follow some strict rule by Flask. You can write your application code in a single file or in a modular manner. Flask supports built-in development servers and fast debuggers, unit testing, RESTful request dispatching, Jinja2 templating, and secure cookies (for client-side...