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Building Python Microservices with FastAPI

You're reading from   Building Python Microservices with FastAPI Build secure, scalable, and structured Python microservices from design concepts to infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245966
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sherwin John C. Tragura Sherwin John C. Tragura
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Preface 1. Part 1: Application-Related Architectural Concepts for FastAPI microservice development
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up FastAPI for Starters FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring the Core Features 4. Chapter 3: Investigating Dependency Injection 5. Chapter 4: Building the Microservice Application 6. Part 2: Data-Centric and Communication-Focused Microservices Concerns and Issues
7. Chapter 5: Connecting to a Relational Database 8. Chapter 6: Using a Non-Relational Database 9. Chapter 7: Securing the REST APIs 10. Chapter 8: Creating Coroutines, Events, and Message-Driven Transactions 11. Part 3: Infrastructure-Related Issues, Numerical and Symbolic Computations, and Testing Microservices
12. Chapter 9: Utilizing Other Advanced Features 13. Chapter 10: Solving Numerical, Symbolic, and Graphical Problems 14. Chapter 11: Adding Other Microservice Features 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Applying the PyMongo driver for synchronous connections

We will start by learning how the FastAPI application connects to MongoDB using the PyMongo database driver. This driver is equivalent to psycopg2, which allows us to access PostgreSQL without using any ORM. Some popular ODMs, such as MongoEngine and Motor, use PyMongo as their core driver, which gives us the reason to explore PyMongo first before we touch on issues regarding popular ODMs. Studying the driver’s behavior can provide baseline transactions that will show how an ODM builds the database connectivity, models, and CRUD transactions. But before we proceed with the details, we need to install the pymongo extension using pip:

pip install pymongo 

Setting up the database connectivity

PyMongo uses its MongoClient module class to connect to any MongoDB database. We instantiate it with the specified host and port to extract the client object, such as MongoClient("localhost", "27017"), or...

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