July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
Content preview from Python Microservices Development
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Distributing
If you are developing in an open source project, it's good practice to publish your project to the PyPI at https://pypi.python.org/pypi.
Like most modern language ecosystem, this index can be browsed by installers that are looking for releases to download.
When you call the pip install <project> command, PIP will browse the PyPI index to see if that project exists, and if there are some suitable releases for your platform.
The public name is the name you use in your setup.py file and you need to register it at PyPI in order to be able to publish some releases. The index uses the first-come, first-serve principle, so if the name you've picked is taken, you will have to choose another one.
When creating microservices for an application ...