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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

Customizing APIRoute and Request

Middleware can process incoming Request data and outgoing Response objects of all API methods in a FastAPI application, except that it cannot manipulate the message body, attach state objects from the Request data, or modify the response object before the client consumes it. Only APIRoute and Request customization can give us a full grasp of how to control the request and response transaction. The control might include determining whether the incoming data is a byte body, form, or JSON and providing an effective logging mechanism, exception handling, content transformation, and extraction.

Managing body, form, or JSON data

Unlike in middleware, customizing APIRoute does not apply to all the API endpoints. Implementing APIRoute for some APIRouter will only impose new routing rules to those affected endpoints, while the other services can pursue the default request and response process. For instance, the following customization is responsible...