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Building Python Microservices with FastAPI

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
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Book Image

Building Python Microservices with FastAPI

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By: Sherwin John C. Tragura

Overview of this book

FastAPI is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI)-based framework that can help build modern, manageable, and fast microservices. Because of its asynchronous core platform, this ASGI-based framework provides the best option when it comes to performance, reliability, and scalability over the WSGI-based Django and Flask. When working with Python, Flask, and Django microservices, you’ll be able to put your knowledge to work with this practical guide to building seamlessly manageable and fast microservices. You’ll begin by understanding the background of FastAPI and learning how to install, configure, and use FastAPI to decompose business units. You’ll explore a unique and asynchronous REST API framework that can provide a better option when it comes to building microservices. After that, this book will guide you on how to apply and translate microservices design patterns in building various microservices applications and RESTful APIs using the FastAPI framework. By the end of this microservices book, you’ll be able to understand, build, deploy, test, and experiment with microservices and their components using the FastAPI framework.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1: Application-Related Architectural Concepts for FastAPI microservice development
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Part 2: Data-Centric and Communication-Focused Microservices Concerns and Issues
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Part 3: Infrastructure-Related Issues, Numerical and Symbolic Computations, and Testing Microservices

Applying reactive programming in tasks

Reactive programming is a paradigm that involves the generation of streams that undergo a series of operations to propagate some changes during the process. Python has an RxPY library that offers several methods that we can apply to these streams asynchronously to extract the terminal result as desired by the subscribers.

In the reactive programming paradigm, all intermediate operators working along the streams will execute to propagate some changes if there is an Observable instance beforehand and an Observer that subscribes to this instance. The main goal of this paradigm is to achieve the desired result at the end of the propagation process using functional programming.

Creating the Observable data using coroutines

It all starts with the implementation of a coroutine function that will emit these streams of data based on a business process. The following is an Observable function that emits publication details in str format for those...