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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 RESTful APIs for Microservices

Application programming interfaces (APIs) play an essential role in software development because they support loose coupling of software components, improving factors such as the maintainability and robustness of applications. This also applies to microservices applications where APIs are key components to meet microservices principles such as being self-contained and resilient.

APIs come in different forms, but we’ll focus on REpresentational State Transfer (RESTful) APIs because they are microservices in themselves and fit well in the microservices architecture.

In this chapter, you’ll learn what RESTful APIs are and how you can build them with Django and the Django REST Framework (DRF). You’ll also learn how to implement Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) operations and corresponding HTTP methods with DRF.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll know what RESTful APIs are and how you consume such APIs with...