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Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python
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Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

by Saurabh Badhwar
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
11h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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API gateways in the serverless architecture

In Chapter 11, Taking the Microservices Approach, when we went through the concept of Microservices, we got introduced to API Gateways and how they help in the development of Microservices. These API gateways also play an important role in the development of the applications based upon the serverless architectures.

The API gateways are nothing but HTTP servers that embed the information about certain API endpoints of an application and associate these endpoints with some handlers. Once a request is made to a certain API endpoint, the handler associated with the API endpoint is called to handle the request.

In the serverless architecture, the handlers that are associated with a particular API endpoint ...

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