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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa, published by Packt

Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

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Build and deploy serverless applications on AWS using Zappa

What is this book about?

Serverless applications are becoming very popular these days, not just because they save developers the trouble of managing the servers, but also because they provide several other benefits such as cutting heavy costs and improving the overall performance of the application.

This book covers the following exciting features: Build, test, and deploy a simple web service using AWS CLI. Integrate Flask-based Python applications, via AWS CLI configuration. Design Rest APIs integrated with Zappa for Flask and Django. Create a project in the Pyramid framework and configure it with Zappa. Generate SSL Certificates using Amazon Certificate Manager. Configure custom domains with AWS Route 53. Create a Docker container similar to AWS Lambda.

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Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02. Chapter10 does not contain any code files.

The code will look like the following:

client = boto3.client('lambda')
response = client.invoke(
  FunctionName='MyFunction',
  InvocationType='Event'
)

Following is what you need for this book: Python Developers who are interested in learning how to develop fast and highly scalable serverless applications in Python, will find this book useful.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-12).

Software and Hardware List

Chapter	Software required	OS required
1-12	Python 3.6	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-12	Zappa	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-12	AWS	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
1-12	Pipenv	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)
12	Docker	Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any)

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

Related products

• Python Microservices Development [Packt] [Amazon]

• Building Serverless Applications with Python [Packt] [Amazon]

Get to Know the Author

Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar is a Software Architect and an active contributor in the open source community. He has developed a deep understanding of architecting software product development through Python web frameworks and JavaScript frameworks. He is passionate about implementing and mastering new technologies. In his free time, he researches innovative approaches to rapidly developing and designing a software product and automation testing, aiming to become a master Software Architect.

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building-serverless-python-web-services-with-zappa's Issues

Error while deploying chapter 4 code on aws lambda, using same codebase as mentioned in book.

Scheduled flask-restapi-dev-zappa-keep-warm-handler.keep_warm_callback with expression rate(4 minutes)!
Uploading flask-restapi-dev-template-1581447250.json (1.6KiB)..
100%|███████████████████████████████| 1.64K/1.64K [00:00<00:00, 12.2KB/s]
Waiting for stack flask-restapi-dev to create (this can take a bit)..
100%|█████████████████████████████████████| 4/4 [00:06<00:00, 2.58s/res]
Deploying API Gateway..
Error: Warning! Status check on the deployed lambda failed. A GET request to '/' yielded a 502 response code.