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Python Microservices Development

You're reading from   Python Microservices Development Build, test, deploy, and scale microservices in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881114
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tarek Ziadé Tarek Ziadé
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Preface 1. Understanding Microservices 2. Discovering Flask FREE CHAPTER 3. Coding, Testing, and Documenting - the Virtuous Cycle 4. Designing Runnerly 5. Interacting with Other Services 6. Monitoring Your Services 7. Securing Your Services 8. Bringing It All Together 9. Packaging and Running Runnerly 10. Containerized Services 11. Deploying on AWS 12. What Next?

Storage - EBS, S3, RDS, ElasticCache, and CloudFront


When you create an EC2 instance, it works with one or several Elastic Block Stores (EBS) (https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/). An EBS is a replicated storage volume EC2 instances can mount to use as their filesystem. When you create a new EC2 instance, you can create a new EBS, and decide if it runs on an SSD or an HDD disk, the initial size, and some other options. Depending on your choices, the volume is more or less expensive.

Simple Storage Service (S3) (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) is a storage service that organizes data into buckets. Buckets are, roughly, namespaces that you can use to organize your data. A bucket can be seen as a key-value storage, where a value is data you want to store. There is no upper limit for the size of the data, and S3 provides everything needed to stream big files in and out of its buckets. S3 is often used to distribute files, since each entry in a bucket can be exposed as a unique, public URL. CloudFront can...

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