Use a machine with a recent version of Windows, Linux or MacOS.
Install Python 3.6. Also, it is useful to know about advanced syntax and new syntax introduced in the Python 3 releases. You might also want to learn about idiomatic Python programming, by checkout out resources on Internet about the topic, if needed.
Install and use Docker on your machine, to easily install and run the RabbitMQ server needed to run the microservices examples for Chapter 15, Microservices and Patterns for the Cloud. If you choose to use the Docker installation method, which is more and more needed for many server software and services packaged as containers, you will find useful information here https://hub.docker.com/_/rabbitmq/ ...
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