At the start of the chapter, we looked at what microservices are philosophically and what their advantages are, and implemented an HTTP-oriented microservice using Flask.
We then looked at some of the advantages of process-based modularity and saw how applying those principles to web applications results in a microservice architecture. We looked at the details needed to use Flask to create a RESTful microservice and put that knowledge to use by building a simple person management microservice.
Next, we looked at using nameko's RPC mechanism to implement a microservice, which simplifies the code significantly, at the cost of requiring that we set up an AMQP infrastructure and a more difficult interface with systems outside the AMQP network.
In the next chapter, we'll look at how to interface between Python and compiled code to optimize performance bottlenecks...
