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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

AWS Lambda asynchronous invocation using Zappa


An AWS Lambda function is nothing but a function deployed at an AWS Lambda container. Hence, executing it is just a matter of invoking a function. There are various methods of invocation provided by AWS. How you go about integrating and configuring the invocation to achieve asynchronous execution is entirely up to you. We have seen in the previous section how to go about asynchronous execution using the Boto3 SDK. Now, we are going to explore the various ways of invocation that are provided by Zappa.

 

Asynchronous AWS Lambda invocation using the task decorator

Zappa provides a super-easy way to configure your Lambda execution in asynchronous mode. Zappa has an implementation of asynchronous execution using a decorator method called zappa.async.task. This decorator can be used with any function we want to execute in asynchronous mode. The following is an example from Zappa's official GitHub page (https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa#asynchronous-task...