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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

Setting up the runtime environment

For our runtime environment, we’ll set up the following software:

  • RabbitMQ: to act as a message broker.
  • Redis: to act as a message-handling vehicle for Celery and to provide caching.
  • MongoDB: to store our data.
  • Docker: to containerize our software and microservices.

MongoDB is the database that our microservices application will use. We cloud use PostgreSQL, MySQL, or another database as well, but MongoDB can run entirely in the cloud, which aligns nicely with our principle of building cloud-native microservices.

Because we’ll run RabbitMQ and Redis as Docker containers, we’ll start with installing Docker Desktop.

Installing Docker Desktop

Docker Desktop allows you to containerize applications on your workstation, and the installation depends on your platform:

Platform

Instructions/URL

Linux...