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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Discovering Flask 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?

Sanic

Sanic (http://sanic.readthedocs.io/) is another interesting project, which specifically tries to provide a Flask-like experience with coroutines.

Sanic uses uvloop (https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop) for its event loop, which is a Cython implementation of the asyncio loop protocol using libuv, allegedly making it faster. The difference might be negligible in most of your microservices, but ;is good to take any speed gain when it is just a transparent switch to a specific event loop implementation.

If we write the previous example in Sanic, it's very close to Flask:

    from sanic import Sanic, response 
 
    app = Sanic(__name__) 
 
    @app.route("/api") 
    async def api(request): 
        return response.json({'some': 'data'}) 
 
    app.run() 

Needless to say, the whole framework is inspired by Flask, and you will find most of...

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