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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

What is Flask?


Flask is a well-known Python micro web framework in the Python community. It's adopted and preferable because of its extensible nature. Flask aims to keep the code simple but extensible.

By default, Flask does not include any database abstraction layer, form validation, or any other specific functionality. Instead, Flask supports extensions to add any well-defined functionality to your application. Numerous extensions are available to provide database integration, form validation, file upload handling, authentication, and more. The Flask core team reviews extensions and ensures that they won't break the future release.

Flask allows you to define the design as per your application needs. You are not bound to follow some strict rule by Flask. You can write your application code in a single file or in a modular manner. Flask supports built-in development servers and fast debuggers, unit testing, RESTful request dispatching, Jinja2 templating, and secure cookies (for client-side...

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