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Hands-On Microservices with Django

By : Tieme Woldman
Book Image

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
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Part 1:Introducing Microservices and Getting Started
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Part 2:Building the Microservices Foundation
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Part 3:Taking Microservices to the Production Level

Creating a sample microservice

Okay, until now, we focused on what microservices are and what the Django microservices architecture consists of. With what we’ve gathered so far, we’re ready to look at a complete microservice to understand what it consists of and what it takes to build one. We’ll split this up into two implementations. First, we’ll explore a microservice implementation with RabbitMQ to understand how message queueing technically works. Then, we’ll walk through a Django microservice implementation with Celery to see what a task-driven Django microservice comprises.

Important note

The Django developer community often uses Celery for task queue management because it’s simple and effective since Celery abstracts the technical details of the underlying message queuing broker.

Nevertheless, it’s valuable to know the inners of message queueing with RabbitMQ and Redis as well because they serve as a vehicle for Celery...