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Cloud Native Python

You're reading from   Cloud Native Python Build and deploy resilent applications on the cloud using microservices, AWS, Azure and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129313
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manish Sethi Manish Sethi
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Preface 1. Introducing Cloud Native Architecture and Microservices 2. Building Microservices in Python FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Web Application in Python 4. Interacting Data Services 5. Building WebViews with React 6. Creating UIs to Scale with Flux 7. Learning Event Sourcing and CQRS 8. Securing the Web Application 9. Continuous Delivery 10. Dockerizing Your Services 11. Deploying on the AWS Platform 12. Implementing on the Azure Platform 13. Monitoring the Cloud Application

A word on developing security-enabled web applications

With an increase in web applications on the World Wide Web (WWW), the concerns over application security have increased as well. Now, the first question that arises in our mind is why we need security-enabled applications--the answer to this is quite obvious. But what are its essential principles? Following are the principles that we should keep in mind:

  • A hacker can easily exploit your application if he gets familiar with the language in which the application got created. That's why, we enable techniques such as CORS to secure our code.
  • Access to the application and its data should be given to very limited people in your organization.
  • A way of authentication, authorization secures your application from both, the WWW as well as within your private network.

All these factors, or as I would say, principles, drive us to...

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