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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

A complete Flask Todo application


As we have seen how Zappa makes it super easy to deploy the Flask application, it's time to see the complete workflow that we may need while developing a Flask-based application. We are going to develop a Flask-based modularized application, where each functionality will be an independent module, such as authentication, Todo application, and so on.

The authentication module will be responsible for maintaining the authentication and authorization mechanism. It will also include the implementation of the login and sign up process.

Whereas thetodomodule will have a basic implementation of todo operations, this operation flow will be authorized by the authentication module. With the help of Flask extensions, we are going to manage and configure these modules. Apart from these core modules, we are also going to see the implementation related to the user interface, database configuration, and static file integration.

Prerequisite

In order to set up the development...