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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

Building the repository and service layers

The two most popular domain modeling patterns that are crucial in building the layers of this approach are the repository and service layer patterns. The repository aims to create strategies for managing data access. Some repository layers only provide data connectivity to the data store like in our specimen here, but oftentimes, repository's goal is to interact with the Object Relational Model (ORM) framework to optimize and manage data transactions. But aside from the access, this layer provides a high-level abstraction for the application so that the specific database technology or dialect used will not matter to the applications. It serves as an adapter to any database platform to pursue data transactions for the application, nothing else. The following is a repository class of the faculty module, which manages the domain for creating assignments for their students:

from fastapi.encoders import jsonable_encoder
from typing import...