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Flask Framework Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Shalabh Aggarwal
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Book Image

Flask Framework Cookbook - Third Edition

4.3 (4)
By: Shalabh Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Discover what makes Flask, the lightweight Python web framework, popular, as you delve into its modular design that enables the development of scalable web apps. With this practical guide, you'll explore modern solutions, recommended design patterns, and best practices for Flask web development. Updated to the latest version of Flask and Python, this third edition of the Flask Framework Cookbook moves away from the outdated libraries, updates content to incorporate new coding patterns, and introduces recipes for the latest tools. You'll explore different ways to integrate with GPT to build AI-ready Flask applications. The book starts with an exploration of Flask application configurations and then guides you through working with templates and understanding the ORM and view layers. You’ll also be able to write an admin interface and get to grips with testing using the factory pattern, debugging, and logging errors. Then you’ll discover different ways of using Flask to create, deploy, and manage microservices using AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes. Finally, you’ll gain insights into various deployment and post-deployment techniques for platforms such as Apache, Tornado, and Datadog. By the end of this book, you'll have acquired the knowledge necessary to write Flask applications that cater to a wide range of use cases in the best possible way and scale them using standard industry practices.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Flask Fundamentals
6
Part 2: Flask Deep Dive
12
Part 3: Advanced Flask

Deployment and Post-Deployment

So far, we have learned how to write Flask applications in different ways. Deploying an application and managing the application post-deployment is as important as developing it. There can be various ways of deploying an application and choosing the best way depends on the requirements. Deploying an application correctly is very important from a security and performance point of view. There are multiple ways of monitoring an application after deployment, of which some are paid and others are free to use. Using them depends on the requirements and features that are offered by them.

In this chapter, we will talk about various application deployment techniques, followed by some monitoring tools that are used post-deployment.

Each of the tools and techniques we will cover has a set of features. For example, adding too much monitoring to an application can prove to be an extra overhead to the application and the developers. Similarly, missing out on...