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Hands-On Microservices with Django

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Product type Book
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468524
Pages 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Tieme Woldman Tieme Woldman
Profile icon Tieme Woldman

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Introducing Microservices and Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: What Is a Microservice? 3. Chapter 2: Introducing the Django Microservices Architecture 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up the Development and Runtime Environment 5. Part 2:Building the Microservices Foundation
6. Chapter 4: Cloud-native Data Processing with MongoDB 7. Chapter 5: Creating RESTful APIs for Microservices 8. Chapter 6: Orchestrating Microservices with Celery and RabbitMQ 9. Chapter 7: Testing Microservices 10. Chapter 8: Deploying Microservices with Docker 11. Part 3:Taking Microservices to the Production Level
12. Chapter 9: Securing Microservices 13. Chapter 10: Improving Microservices Performance with Caching 14. Chapter 11: Best Practices for Microservices 15. Chapter 12: Transforming a Monolithic Web Application into a Microservices Version 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up the development environment

As developers, we need a toolbook to work with and get started. So, we’ll begin with our development environment. Because Linux also runs on Windows through WSL and Linux shell commands overlap with Mac OS commands, this book utilizes Linux as a development and runtime platform. So we catch three birds with one stone.

If you’re on Windows, you first need to install WSL and Ubuntu as described in the subsection, Extra setup for Windows developers. If you’re on Linux or Mac OS, you can skip this subsection and jump to the Installing the required Python packages subsection.

Extra setup for Windows developers

If you’re on Windows 10 or 11, you must activate WSL and install an Ubuntu instance to follow along. You also need to install Windows Terminal and integrate WSL with VS Code.

Setting up WSL and Ubuntu is easy:

  1. Open your BIOS settings and check if virtualization is enabled. If needed, enable virtualization...
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