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Python Microservices Development

You're reading from Python Microservices Development Build, test, deploy, and scale microservices in Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785881114

Length 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Flask

Concepts

Microservices

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

Introduction

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?

Chapter 9. Packaging and Running Runnerly

When the Python programming language was first released in the early 1990s, a Python application was run by pointing the Python scripts to the interpreter. Everything related to packaging, releasing, and distributing Python projects was done manually. There was no real standard back then, and each project had a long README on how to install it with all its dependencies.

Bigger projects used the system packaging tools to release their work--whether it was Debian packages, RPM packages for Red-Hat Linux distributions, or things like MSI packages under Windows. Eventually, the Python modules from those projects all ended up in the site-packages directory of the Python installation, sometimes after a compilation phase, if you had a C extension.

The Python packaging ecosystem has evolved a lot since then. In 1998, Distutils was added in the standard library to provide essential support to create installable distributions for Python projects. Between then...

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