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Building Serverless Microservices in Python

You're reading from   Building Serverless Microservices in Python A complete guide to building, testing, and deploying microservices using serverless computing on AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789535297
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Takashi Freeman Richard Takashi Freeman
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Preface 1. Serverless Microservices Architectures and Patterns 2. Creating Your First Serverless Data API FREE CHAPTER 3. Deploying Your Serverless Stack 4. Testing Your Serverless Microservice 5. Securing Your Microservice 6. Summary and Future Work 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating and writing to a NoSQL database called DynamoDB using Python

Now that we understand how to create a table, add data, and query DynamoDB using the AWS Console, we will look at how we can do this using only Python code.

We recommend you use a Python Integrated development environment (IDE) such as Eclipse PyDev (http://www.pydev.org/download.html) or PyCharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/). You do not need to use an IDE, but I would recommend that you do. If you really want to, you can use VI, for example, on Linux to actually edit your code. But using an IDE allows you, for example, to run debugging or set up unit testing locally and step through it, which makes it easier and more productive for development.

First create the table using Boto3 https://boto3.readthedocs.io/ in Python. Run the code in the following section in PyCharm or your favorite text editor...

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Building Serverless Microservices in Python
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