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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


Before starting this chapter, make sure you fulfill the prerequisites for working with the application. Here are the  technical requirements you need to meet:

  • Ubuntu 16.04/Windows/macOS
  • Python3.6
  • Pipenv tool
  • Falcon framework
  • Zappa
  • Registered domain
  • AWS account

 

This chapter enhances the application developed in Chapter 8Custom Domain with SSL. Hence, some of the requirements can be used from previously configured prerequisites. Let's move ahead to learn more about asynchronous execution in AWS Lambda.