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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

You're reading from   Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa Build and deploy serverless applications on AWS using Zappa

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837613
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
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Preface 1. Amazon Web Services for Serverless FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Zappa 3. Building a Flask Application with Zappa 4. Building a Flask-Based REST API with Zappa 5. Building a Django Application with Zappa 6. Building a Django REST API with Zappa 7. Building a Falcon Application with Zappa 8. Custom Domain with SSL 9. Asynchronous Task Execution on AWS Lambda 10. Advanced Zappa Settings 11. Securing Serverless Applications with Zappa 12. Zappa with Docker 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 10, Advanced Zappa Settings

  1. AWS Lambda is designed to provide a serverless infrastructure. It instantiates the context on invocation request and then destroys itself after serving the request. AWS Lambda adds a little time delay for the initial startup and setting up the context. To avoid it, you can keep the Lambda instance in a warm state by setting up the schedule trigger using AWS CloudWatch. Zappa provides this feature by default and you can turn off this feature by setting the keep_warm attribute to false.
  2. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is mechanism that allows a domain to access restricted resources from the different domain. 
  3. Zappa provides an easy way of managing large size project as AWS Lambda has a limitation of uploading the build package with 50 MB but also have an option to service bigger size build packages from Amazon S3. In Zappa setting...
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