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Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python
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Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

by Daniel Arbuckle
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
274 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building high-level microservices with Flask

So, we had a look at what a microservice is and why structuring our servers as collection of microservices is helpful. Now, let's take a look at the practicalities and use Flask to construct a functioning microservice.

Microservices can be pretty easily divided into those that use web technologies, such as HTTP, to communicate with each other and those that use a dedicated inter-process communication or a remote-procedure-called mechanism to communicate.

There are advantages to each, depending on the specific needs of a project and neither is inherently easier to work with. However, I'm going to refer to microservices that use web technologies to communicate as high level because they are inherently ...

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