Web Application Development with Streamlit: Develop and Deploy Secure and Scalable Web Applications to the Cloud Using a Pure Python Framework

© Mohammad Khorasani, Mohamed Abdou, Javier Hernández Fernández 2022

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6. Leveraging Backend Servers

Mohammad Khorasani¹  , Mohamed Abdou² and Javier Hernández Fernández¹

(1)

Doha, Qatar

(2)

Cambridge, United Kingdom

 

In this chapter, we will introduce a more sophisticated and scalable way of designing web applications. Specifically, this chapter will present the process to offload the overhead associated with managing databases from the Streamlit server and onto an independent backend server as it should be in a full-stack environment. To that end, this chapter will walk the developer through the entire process of provisioning a backend server in Python ...