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Building Serverless Applications with Python

You're reading from   Building Serverless Applications with Python Develop fast, scalable, and cost-effective web applications that are always available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787288676
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jalem Raj Rohit Jalem Raj Rohit
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Preface 1. The Serverless Paradigm 2. Building a Serverless Application in AWS FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Serverless Architectures 4. Deploying Serverless APIs 5. Logging and Monitoring 6. Scaling Up Serverless Architectures 7. Security in AWS Lambda 8. Deploying a Lambda Function with SAM 9. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Functions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

API methods and resources

In this section, we will be learning about the API service of AWS, which is the API Gateway, and understanding the components and settings available in the console for the user who is creating APIs. We will go through all of the components and understand the API Gateway better. The steps to create the serverless APIs are as follows:

  1. We will start by opening the API Gateway console, which looks like this:
  1. In the API Gateway console, click on the Get Started button to start creating an API. It will take you to an API creation wizard with a popup saying Create Example API:
  1. Once you click on the OK button, you will be redirected to a page where the Example API is shown, from which you can get an idea of what an API response looks like:

The API we are building in this example is for a pet store and for maintaining the pets inside the store. By going...

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