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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

Automated testing with Selenium

Selenium is renowned for testing web applications and allows us to test web pages. Selenium automatically performs actions a user would do and can simultaneously execute assertions. Furthermore, Selenium works with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Therefore, besides installing Selenium, we must install the driver software for the browser or browsers we want to test.

In this section, we’ll install Selenium and the Chrome driver and then build an automated version of the end-to-end test. We only cover what is necessary to create basic Selenium tests. For detailed information about Selenium, check the documentation at https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/.

Okay – let’s install the necessary software:

  1. Install Selenium with this command:
    $ pip install selenium
  2. Navigate in your browser to https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/
  3. installation.html#drivers and follow the instructions to install a driver for your browser...