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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
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about testing microservices applications to ensure our developed software meets the requirements set by the stakeholders. We walked through the principles of testing microservices and then started testing the individual software components by unit testing. When we covered the components, we mastered end-to-end testing to try out the application as a whole and determine if it worked as expected. Finally, we automated an end-to-end test with Selenium.

This gives you control over the quality of the software you deliver and enhances your reputation as a developer. Moreover, you save your organization costs by finding and fixing errors as soon as possible.

In the next chapter, you’ll learn how to run the Django microservices and RESTful API as Docker containers, which makes our microservices application even more robust, independent, transportable, and scalable.