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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

Summary

This chapter started by explaining what cloud-native databases are and that we selected MongoDB as the database for our application because the cloud version of MongoDB coheres well with the principles of the microservices architecture.

Next, we learned about NoSQL databases and how they differ from relational databases. This also led us to the vocabulary for MongoDB, where collections are the counterpart of tables.

Then, we prepared MongoDB for our application and created our first database and collection. Finally, we mapped the CRUD operations and their counterpart HTTP methods in anticipation of the RESTful API we’ll build for processing the data in our application.

With this, we have completed the data layer of our application, and we’re set for the next chapter, where we’ll learn about developing RESTful APIs with DRF.