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Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition
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Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

by Gastón C. Hillar
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Designing a RESTful API to interact with slow sensors and actuators

Imagine that we have to create a RESTful API to control a drone, also known as a UAV (short for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The drone is an IoT device that interacts with many sensors and actuators, including digital electronic speed controllers linked to engines, propellers, and servomotors.

The IoT device has limited resources, and therefore we have to use a lightweight web framework. Our API doesn't need to interact with a database. We don't need a heavyweight web framework such as Django, with all its features and its integrated ORM. We want to be able to process many requests without blocking the web server. We need the web server to provide us with nice scalability ...

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