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Building Python Microservices with FastAPI

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
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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

Managing the CORS mechanism

When integrating API endpoints with various frontend frameworks, we often encounter the "no ‘access-control-allow-origin’ header present" error from our browser. Nowadays, this setup is an HTTP-header-based mechanism of any browser, which requires the backend server to provide the browser with the "origin" details of the server-side application, which includes the server domain, scheme, and port. This mechanism is called CORS, which happens when the frontend application and its web resources belong to a different domain area than the backend app. Nowadays, browsers prohibit cross-origin requests between the server-side and frontend applications for security reasons.

To resolve this issue, we need our main.py module to place all the origins of our application and other integrated resources used by the prototype inside a List. Then, we import the built-in CORSMiddleware from the fastapi.middleware.cors module and add that...