December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 33m
English
Content preview from Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition
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Understanding microservices
In the last few years, many large and complex applications started shifting from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture. Instead of working with large and extremely complex web services, the microservices architecture proposes developing a collection of smaller, loosely-coupled services to implement all the features required by complex applications in a way that enables and simplifies continuous delivery.
RESTful APIs are essential pieces of the microservices architecture, and Python is extremely popular when shifting to this architecture. Each microservice can encapsulate a RESTful API that fulfills a specific and limited purpose. The microservice is self-contained, it is easy to maintain, ...