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Hands-On Microservices with Django

By : Tieme Woldman
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Hands-On Microservices with Django

By: Tieme Woldman

Overview of this book

Are you a Django developer looking to leverage microservices to create optimized and scalable web applications? If yes, then this book is for you. With microservices, you can split an application into self-contained services, each with a specific scope running asynchronously while collectively executing processes. Written by an experienced Python developer, Hands-On Microservices with Django teaches you how to develop and deploy microservices using Django and accompanying components such as Celery and Redis. You'll start by learning the principles of microservices and message/task queues and how to design them effectively. Next, you’ll focus on building your first microservices with Django RESTful APIs (DFR) and RabbitMQ, mastering the fundamentals along the way. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with dockerizing your microservices. Later, you’ll discover how to optimize and secure them for production environments. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to design and develop production-ready Django microservices applications with DFR, Celery/RabbitMQ, Redis, and Django's cache framework.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Introducing Microservices and Getting Started
5
Part 2:Building the Microservices Foundation
11
Part 3:Taking Microservices to the Production Level

Exploring Django’s native components for microservices web applications

Django is a versatile web development tool and has these native components for developing microservices already on board:

  • Django Rest Framework (DRF): A framework for building RESTful APIs as general microservices.
  • Django Cache Framework: A framework for optimizing the performance of a microservices application.

In the following subsections, we’re looking contemplatively at DRF because in Chapter 5, Creating RESTful APIs for Microservices, we’ll explore DRF in depth and build a RESTful API ourselves. The same applies to caching. Later, in Chapter 10, Improving Microservices Performance With Caching, we’ll learn the ins and outs of caching with Django Cache Framework and Redis.

Now we’ll address DRF and RESTful APIs.

DRF

We learned in Chapter 1, What Is a Microservice?, that microservices come in the following basic flavors:

  • General microservices...